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Male pilots were worried that women would be in cockpits before they were ready. But their fears were assuaged in December, when Lieut. Shannon Workman, an EA-6B Prowler pilot, was sent ashore because she had trouble landing her radar-jamming jet. (A male pilot was sent home for the same reason.) Female aviators were relieved as well. "Nobody wants lives on the carrier sacrificed on the altar of political correctness," said Lieut. Commander Janet Marnane, an F-14 radar intercept officer...
...federal appeals court today ruled that Citadel sophomore Shannon Faulkner could not be excluded from military training by South Carolina's all-male military college because that would violate her Constitutional rights. The court said the state must either implement an alternative program to accommodate all women seeking a military education oradmit Faulkner to The Citadel's military training programby August.TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonsays the ruling signals the end of an era because The Citadel is the last government-sponsored "bastion of maleness" in military education. Faulkner has been attending Citadel classes under a federal judge's order...
Quaker righthander Mike Shannon was named Ivy League Pitcher of the week for his shutout performance in the nightcap...
...Shannon walked one and struck out five, improving his overall record to 2-1 with...
...thing and knew what she was doing," her training squadron commander, Capt. Tom Sobieck, told the New York Times. When given the same training and subjected to the same standards as men, women compete on an equal level. If women are subject to the same standards as men, as Shannon Faulkner was in her original Citadel application (when she was accepted without knowledge of her gender), then the admitting school's excellence will not be compromised...