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...corrupt incumbent-protection system, managed to remain entrenched despite the onslaught. Alarmed by Bill Clinton's fluke victory in 1992, Republicans redoubled their organizing efforts. Richly rewarded in 1994, conservatives were elated after breaking the Demcorats' lock on the House of Representatives. And having finally broken into the citadel, the Republicans are now resorting to the old Nixon playbook to ensure that they never have to leave again...
Converse College, a private women's institution in Spartanburg, S.C., will establish a $10 million program to help keep women out of the Citadel. Under the plan, women would take academic courses at Converse and receive their military training at a site other than the Citadel. State officials had approached the college after courts had ruled that the Citadel had until August to either admit women to its cadet corps or establish a separate but equal program elsewhere. Lawyers for Shannon Faulkner, whose legal battle to be admitted into the state-run Citadel prompted the arrangement, said the program...
...Citadel Rebuked Again...
...federal appeals court handed Shannon Faulkner another victory in her fight to be admitted as a cadet at South Carolina's Citadel. Ruling that keeping Faulkner out violates equal-protection guarantees, the court ordered the school to let her in or come up with an alternative plan...
...federal appeals court today ruled that Citadel sophomore Shannon Faulkner could not be excluded from military training by South Carolina's all-male military college because that would violate her Constitutional rights. The court said the state must either implement an alternative program to accommodate all women seeking a military education oradmit Faulkner to The Citadel's military training programby August.TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonsays the ruling signals the end of an era because The Citadel is the last government-sponsored "bastion of maleness" in military education. Faulkner has been attending Citadel classes under a federal judge's order...