Word: vojdik
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...exclusion of women reinforces a disrespect and denigration of women that is already prevalent in the Citadel," said Valorie K. Vojdik, who served as head counsel for Faulkner during her two-and-a-half year legal battle to gain entrance to the academy...
...Vojdik is currently leading a legal battle against a school set up as an all female alternative to the Citadel, arguing that the new school does not offer a comparable or equivalent program...
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...
...This is treating women as second-class citizens. This makes a mockery of the desires of women who want to pursue a military education," Valorie K. Vojdik, Faulker's lawyer, told the New York Times. Although allowing women into the Citadel and Navy doesn't seem a primary issue, the ban against them hurts them at all levels...