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Women leaders at The Citadel offer strategies for success.(IN THEIR OWN WORDS)
Just 10 short years ago, The Citadel--The Military College of South Carolina, made history for its resistance to admitting its first female cadet. In 1993, Shannon Faulkner, the woman who applied to join its all-male corps of cadets, had been accepted and then rejected for admission.
In 1995 she finally won admission to The Citadel, after a Supreme Court ruling that another public military school--Virginia Military Institute--must admit women.
Although Faulkner lasted less than a week as a Citadel cadet, her legacy paved the way for a fundamental transformation of the role of women at the school.
Today, more than 120 females are among its 1,800 ...
- New Citadel Guidelines Accommodate Women Cadets
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered August 7, 1996 700+ words
...of public affairs at The Citadel. He joins us by telephone...accepted, you will have three women cadets. What are you going to call...of Public Affairs, The Citadel: Well, we would call them women cadets, female cadets. They...
- All Four Women Cadets Pass Physical Tests at The Citadel
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post August 29, 1996 700+ words
All four women cadets at The Citadel made it through physical fitness tests...in a bit longer,' " he said. The Citadel opened its gates to women this year...was unconstitutional. VMI and The Citadel were the only all-male state military...
- REHNQUIST RULES CITADEL MUST OPEN DOORS TO WOMEN CADETS.(MAIN)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) January 19, 1994 700+ words
Byline: Associated Press The Citadel's last defense against women in day...packing for the trip to Charleston. At The Citadel, where the cadet corps has been all...in Powdersville, 220 miles away. The Citadel and Virginia Military Institute are the...
- 2 WOMEN CADETS WHO LEFT THE CITADEL ARE SUBPOENAED.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) January 23, 1997 700+ words
The Citadel has subpoenaed two female cadets who left the college alleging they were hazed by male cadets. Jeanie Mentavlos of Charlotte...
- The uniforms of diversity At Norwich University, presence of women cadets is...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Royal Ford, Globe Staff May 1, 1994 700+ words
...male military college, The Citadel, and worries for the boys...Limestone, Maine. Meet the women cadets of Norwich, at 175 the oldest...university that, even as The Citadel and Virginia Military Institute...and even into the 1980s women cadets had only men to look up to...
- WOMEN CADETS AT VMI MAY GET MENTOR PROGRAM.(LOCAL)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot January 19, 1997 700+ words
...But the Lexington school is on schedule to welcome its first women cadets with minimal program changes, Ret. Army Col. N. Michael...admissions policy and open its doors to women. Unlike the Citadel in South Carolina, VMI chose to take a year to get ready...
- Hazing illegal but persistent.(hazing of women cadets at the Virginia Military...
- Magazine article from: Black Issues in Higher Education Meggett, Linda L. January 9, 1997 700+ words
...allegedly happened to two female cadets at The Citadel in recent months is nothing new. Jeanie...years to be told. Thirty years ago, The Citadel's first Black cadet, Charles D. Foster...publicly. Messer's father reported that a Citadel upperclassman used a rifle to shove the...
- WOMEN CADETS SURVIVE.(NEWS)(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) September 6, 1996 700+ words
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- The four women who broke The Citadel's 153-year-old all-male tradition survived ''Hell Week,'' but 16 other freshmen at the military school did not. Known...
