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...federal court threw a last-minute wrench into Shannon Faulkner's plan to become the Citadel military college's first woman cadet. Faulkner was set to enroll Monday after winning a sex-discrimination suit that had bounced up to the Supreme Court. But this afternoon a three-judge panel of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the school a delay until December, when the case goes back to the drawing board. Till then, Faulkner is stuck in the Citadel's day-student program. The silver lining: no court-ordered buzz cut for Faulkner, at least not this semester...
Does equality of the sexes in the military world extend to the barbershop? Just a week after trailblazing Shannon Faulkner won court-enforced admission to South Carolina's all-male Citadel, the same judge ruled that the prestigious military college's first woman cadet will have to get her head shaved like the boys. U.S. District Judge Weston Houck accepted the school's plan for Faulkner's admittance, which includes the dreaded trim. Faulkner's lawyer called the requirement "punitive and degrading...
...federal judge ordered the Citadel, the state-supported military college in South Carolina, to admit Shannon Faulkner to its all-male corps of cadets next month and to develop plans to admit other women soon. The school said it would appeal...
...they had a son, Cullen, who is an architect in Spain. The elder McCarthy's first book was The Orchard Keeper, an unsentimental, striking, powerful, lovely commemorative to a gone way of life in the old Tennessee hills that ended so portentously it made you want to snatch Faulkner from the grave and choke him for his influence...
McCarthy got some grant money for The Orchard Keeper -- the William Faulkner Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters -- and there is no account of his having hit a lick at anything but novel writing since. His second wife, Anne de Lisle, recalls living in a barn with him outside Knoxville for eight years, bathing outdoors, eating beans, her husband rejecting $2,000 offers to speak at universities because everything he had to say was available in those books that no one was buying. The repellent could have been subject matter, but then only a simpleton...