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...Faulkner's choice to take the bad with the good. She applied -- and was accepted -- last year. Then the Citadel, learning she was female, reneged. Faulkner sued for discrimination -- the school is state funded -- and last month, Federal District Judge C. Weston Houck ruled in her favor, saying she could attend the school as a full-fledged cadet beginning with the start of the new school year -- this Monday...
...Citadel stalwarts were deeply wounded. Said retired Lieut. Colonel T. Nugent Courvoisie, 77, immortalized as the Citadel's harsh taskmaster, the "Bear," in Pat Conroy's best seller The Lords of Discipline, last Wednesday: "That girl says she wants to come in and be one of the boys. But the minute she comes in, the atmosphere changes. She ruins the whole concept of getting everyone together and working on the same team." In fact, there may be some truth to claims by other traditionalists that once Faulkner is in, rather than playing by the Citadel's rules...
Last Wednesday, Houck ruled again, this time in favor of the haircut. Previously, he had accepted the Citadel's demand that Faulkner be housed by herself in a renovated area of the school's infirmary. Faulkner's enrollment, however, seemed inevitable, and as she prepared gamely for her desired ordeal, Citadel graduates like Buck Limehouse (class of '60), now chairman of the South Carolina department of transportation commission, tried to put their disappointment in a historical context: "It's sort of like the Southern cause," he said. "Even if you know you're going to lose...
Then at the last moment, the South rose again. On Friday an appeals court granted the Citadel a stay pending a hearing of arguments, which will probably take place in December. That will effectively postpone Faulkner's cadet debut for at least a year. For now she intends to continue as a day student. She said, "I'd say I'm being selfish and doing this just for me. But I do, in a way, think it's for women who might follow...
...Citadel they announced the news over the school's intercom system. Brian Wamsley, a 1992 graduate working at the school's computer center, reported that "it was just like winning the World Series. People were yelling and screaming and slapping high fives. It was chaos." For the moment no one seemed worried about Faulkner's intent to appeal the case as high as necessary. "It's good to know there are still some conservative people in this nation," said Wamsley. "We'll definitely be toasting the courts tonight...