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That may be difficult for the four women who will be joining the male cadets this year--an event that was forced upon the 154-year-old military college by a June Supreme Court ruling that declared the all-male admission policy at the state-supported Virginia Military Institute unconstitutional. The battle against coeducation--which began in earnest in 1993 when the state-supported Citadel mistakenly accepted Shannon Faulkner, thinking she was male--was waged so fiercely, and with such ill will, that when an out-of-sorts and out-of-shape Faulkner withdrew a year ago after less than...
Many at the Citadel--which over the years has graduated countless members of South Carolina's ruling class--are choosing, like Mace, to be gracious in defeat. Most are simply relieved the battle is over. As Bryant Butler, the 23-year-old Regimental Commander of the Corps of Cadets, says, "Not one male incoming freshman I've talked to said he didn't want to attend because women would be here. As a matter of fact, some said they felt more comfortable now that the decision was made." And when alumni learned of a woman who had been accepted...
Watson, a graduate of Chicago State University, started his career at the Chicago Police Department as a cadet...
...last year, he strode to the podium of the Old Wardroom dining hall at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, to inspire the 118 cadets of Bravo Company and their guests with tales of Coast Guard glory. Aiming to start on a light note, Blanchard promised to "dispense with the political correctness" and opened with several risque jokes as guests finished their strawberry-covered cheesecake. Blanchard said he had seen a cadet's fiance wearing a brooch featuring maritime signal flags. Blanchard's joke: "She said the flags meant, 'I love you.' They really said, 'Permission granted...
...things were glossed over," said Sharmi S. Modi '99, a cadet in air force ROTC who attended the discussion...