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...that was forced upon the 154-year-old military college by a June Supreme Court ruling that declared the all-male admission policy at the state-supported Virginia Military Institute unconstitutional. The battle against coeducation--which began in earnest in 1993 when the state-supported Citadel mistakenly accepted Shannon Faulkner, thinking she was male--was waged so fiercely, and with such ill will, that when an out-of-sorts and out-of-shape Faulkner withdrew a year ago after less than a week, the victorious whooping of the other cadets was shown on national television. And even last week lawyers...
Already, the chances at success for these four women look better than those of their predecessor. Three of them have Citadel family ties, and all four hope to avoid the extraordinary glare of the spotlight that contributed to Faulkner's demise. As Robert Black, who served as a lawyer for Faulkner, puts it, "Shannon always, always wanted to please the Citadel. But in order to get into the school, she had to go to court. It was a cruel situation." Seventeen-year-old Kim Messer's father is an Army veteran, and her elder brother attended the Citadel before leaving...
...just the old sweet song of Georgia on My Mind, performed by Gladys Knight. She in turn gave way to the new, sweet, if somewhat pretentious Summertime allegory, which featured giant puppets, a riverboat and 440 butterflies, not to mention quotes from Zora Neal Hurston, Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner...
...ELVIS, FAULKNER AND FEMININE SPIRITUALITY Joel Williamson, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, explores the links between two of the South's greatest icons, Elvis and novelist William Faulkner. "They were born within 27 miles of each other," he notes, "and both were obsessed with race and sex, and both were tremendously conscious of a class hierarchy...
...Stella Got Her Groove Back, remembers being inspired by Morrison's books in school and then sensing, once her own work began to be published, that the elder author was not offering her much encouragement. (They write, to put it mildly, dissimilar fiction; Morrison is about as close to Faulkner as McMillan is to Judith Krantz.) Those feelings have passed. When she meets Morrison now, McMillan says, "we hug each other...