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...Shannon Faulkner's lawyer criticized the attitude toward women at the Citadel, an all-male military academy, telling an audience of 100 at the Law School last night that women should not be forced to attend separate and inferior institutions...
Commenting to an audience of approximately 100 on issues ranging from affirmative action to the Shannon Faulkner case, Strossen emphasized the major vanguards of the women's movement and its progress in recent years...
...Shannon Faulkner would have been a quitter if she had dropped out during the two years it took her just to get into the Citadel [SOCIETY, Aug. 28]. Had her classmates at the school been kinder and more welcoming, she probably could have made it. Even though she quit, I still think she is one of the bravest women in the U.S.--certainly braver than most of the men in the Citadel. MATT CALCARA Overland Park, Kansas AOL: Cal Clan
FUROR OVER FAULKNER...
...women should not be too quick to abandon Faulkner because she is not the perfect poster-cadet, or because misogyny is ebbing, or because the work of integrating all-male institutions is over. At the Air Force Academy, cadet Elizabeth Saum, a champion diver and straight-A student, was forced to take medical leave after playing the POW in a survival-training course. Saum says she was confined with a hood over her head and no food or sleep for two days, splattered with urine, and climbed on by a male cadet who forced her knees apart and simulated raping...