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...least 30 cadets dropped out of the Citadel's freshman class last week. Shannon Faulkner is the only one whose name people will remember. After fighting since 1993 to become the first female cadet in the school's 152-year history, Faulkner floundered for less than five days, most of them spent in the campus infirmary, before deciding to quit. "The past 2-1/2 years came crashing down on me in an instant," she said in a quavering voice when announcing her decision. In a final sign of how anxious some people at the school were...
While Faulkner won't be returning, one of her lawyers, Val Vojdik, promises that the fight to open the Citadel to women is not ending: "If the Citadel thinks it can solve the problem through Shannon's leaving, they're dead wrong." Don't tell that yet to the cadets. At the first word that Faulkner was going, many of them cheered, honked car horns and took to a checkerboard-patterned quadrangle to perform triumphant push-ups. Maybe it was heat of all kinds that knocked Faulkner out of the Citadel last week. What no one agrees upon is just...
...could breathe easier this time, without the uncomfortable sense that if a gymnast fell, she might shatter physically or crumble emotionally. Most of the top competitors at last week's National Gymnastics Championships in New Orleans' Superdome were sturdy, poised high-school graduates. Three were veterans of Olympic competition, Shannon Miller, 18, who placed second in the all-around competition; Dominique Dawes, 18, who came in fourth; and Kerri Strug, 17, who finished fifth. The intervening years have added height and weight to their frames and a maturity to their faces that lent new elegance and expressiveness to their performances...
...Shannon Faulkner, who fought for more than two years to become the first female "knob" at the Citadel, dropped out of the military college after missing all of the school's "hell week" indoctrination. Faulkner became ill following a drill in 100-degree weather and spent most of the week in the campus infirmary. Her fellow cadets greeted the news of Faulkner's departure with cheers and jeers...
After more than two years of court fights and $5 million in legal fees, what kind of feminist poops out after one little episode of heat exhaustion? To begin with, Shannon Faulkner makes an unlikely feminist. She applied to the Citadel after being surprised to learn that a state-supported school was still all male. While her cause was taken up by sympathetic lawyers, she never engendered the unstinting support of women's groups and her timing was off: the Republican revolution, cause fatigue, and a sense that women had been there and done that, all diminished her attraction...