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...place. The Confederate flag and the flag of the South Carolina secession are tacked next to Old Glory near the ceiling; the IMPEACH CLINTON sticker beneath the flags seems practically to glow; the cadets and their sweethearts are crowding the red vinyl-covered benches; and Shannon Faulkner's hair -- the proximate cause for the celebratory mood -- is still on her head...
...Faulkner, 19, will not be getting a crew cut on Monday. Nor will she be forced to walk in gutters instead of on sidewalks. She will not be assuming the distorted "brace" position to accept any abuse an upperclassman cares to dish out. Or doing push-ups until she vomits. She will not be submitting to -- or struggling against -- any of the everyday humiliations imposed during the freshman year at the Citadel, the all-male military college that is Charleston's pride, because, as of Friday, a federal appeals court...
There is no law on the books preventing people from injecting themselves into uncomfortable situations. And it is Faulkner's hope, now somewhat dented, that there are laws preventing them from being excluded. The Citadel is, without doubt, one of Southern education's more idiosyncratic institutions. Founded in 1842 (it boasts that its cadets fired the first shots of the Civil War: at a Union ship), the college is a proud dinosaur of the Old South, notable today for two things. One is its alumni network, which includes at least one South Carolina Senator, one former Governor and countless other...
...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...
...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, she (or her legal team) hopes to change the place. After their initial victory, her lawyers asked Houck to excuse her from the traditional knob crew cut, on the shaky grounds that it would stigmatize her as a woman. More sensibly...