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VOLUME LXXXVIV FRIDAY. February 3, 1995 Number 16
Faulkner and Citadel
Take Battle to Richmond I x Grimes
News Editor
The Citadel, the Military Col-lege
of South Carolina, presented its
case to the United States Fourth Cir-cuit
Court of Appeals last Monday, in
an effort to remain an all male state
supported institution.
The case opened with The
Citadel's attorney discussing the re-cent
decision handed down by the
same three judge panel which upheld
the constitutionality of the Virginia
Womens Institute for Leadership. The
question was immediately raised re-garding
the constitutionality of any
state to offer single gender educa-tion.
The C i t a d e l ' s attorneys at-tempted
to show that the stale's his-torical
educational policy maintains
that single gender education has
worked for both sexes when there Is
enough "demonstrated demand".
During the early seventies,
the Slate of South Carolina was forced
to deal with the economic hardships
a f f e c t i n g the then all-female
Winthrop College. The lack of de-mand
for the female college had ulti-mately
forced the slate to deal with a
growing economic burden. The state
decided to admit males to Winthrop
only after all other recourses of ac-tion
had been exhausted.
The Citadel's attorneys be-lieve
the Winthrop case proves that
the South Carolina has made efforts
to offer single gender education to
both sexes. The Citadel stands unique
within the s l a t e ' s educational system
as an all male institution because it
continues to be economically viable
due to demand.
The Citadel conceded that
South Carolina's ability to monitor
demand for single gender education
is an "imperfect system". The attor-neys
do believe, however, that there
It Iniufflclent demand fbr an all fe-male
military tchool. The Citadel's
attorneyi deemed It virtually impos-sible
to project the demand for a co-educational
l i n e supported military
school.
The panel verbally chal-lenged
the relevance of past single
sex educational opportunities in the
current case. In the words of one of
the three Judges on the panel, "Its
like buying iiock: you never look at
where it was, you look at where It Is
going."
The Citadel has made efforts
to meet the demands of Shannon
Faulkner by establishing a parallel
program which would offer females
state supported military training.
South Carolina appointed a Blue Rib-bon
Panel lo study such a program.
The program is in its infant stages
and has yet to meet the approval of
the South Carolina Council of Higher
Education or the South Carolina Leg-islature.
The development of the pro-gram
began only after the initial rul-ing,
a fact which did not go unnoticed
by the Appeals Court panel.
"There is irony in the fact
that only now is South Carolina be-ing
proactive," said one of the three
Judges on the panel.
The program affords female
applicants a combination of military
training and tuition assistance. The
applicants would noi reside at one
location, as is the case with cadets
attending the Virginia Womens Insti-tute
for Leadership, but would rather
utilize the assets of higher education
Continued on Page 4
... THE CITADEL
T H E M I L I T A R Y COLLEGE OF SOUTH CAROLI
First Snow and Ice Wreak Havoc Matt Howell
Cadei News Writer
Several cadets were Involved
in accidents this past weekend, due to
this winter's first snowfall.
Second classmen John DlDio
and Rusty McGuire were on their way
to Massanulien when Cadet DlDlo
encountered a patch of ice on 1-81
Just outside of Staunton.
Cadet DiDio's Toyoia truck
skidded off of the road and rolled
four timet, finally coming to rest in
the median. After Inspection, it was
found that the truck was a total loss.
Since driving in four wheel
drive draitlcally cutt your gas mile-age,
Cadet DlDlo look hit truck out
of four wheel drive once he got to the
interttate. Cadet DlDlo ttated that,
"if I had It to do over, I would have
left It in four wheel drive."
Neither of the two sustained
any injuries. However Mr. McGuire
seemed pretty disturbed about the
whole ordeal, he comments, "first.
John tries to kill me. then I had to
wait in a blizzard for four hours until
the tow truck finally camel"
Another accident occurred on
Anderson Drive, better known as
Soup's Hill. Just behind barracks.
Second classmen Cliff
Wedington and Louie Napoleon were
involved in a head on collision about
halfway up the hill. Both of the cars
involved received moderate damage.
Cadet W e d i n g t o n ' s Ford
Mustang lost traction, and he was
attempting to push it off to the side so
he wouldn't completely block the road
when he saw Cadet Napoleon's I'ord
Probe sliding towards him.
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Jason Harding
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From time to time the Corps of
Cadets and the administration of VMl do
not see eye to eye. Most times the Corps
is forced to Just "suck it up." But then
there are times when individual classes
and the Corps as a whole determine it is
times to lake a stand The administration
refers to these occurrences as "combina-tions",
"mutinies", or "exueme acts of
insubordination and disrespect". To the
Corps, these valorous displays of cadei
defiance are known as "Step-Offs".
Colonel William Couper in Oac
Hundred Years ai VMl. recounts the vari-ous
acts of defiance on behalf of the
Corpt during VMI's early years. The
first ever revolt by the Corps took place
on April 21.1851. A major murder trial
in Lexington was coming to its conclu-sion
and the Corps had been allowed
through a special permit to attend the
intriguing proceedings. The eloquent
doting arguments by the Slate Prosecu-tor
were lasting longer than expected, so
the First Class put in a permit to miss
attother day of classes to attend the n-nale.
The permit was subsequently de-nied
by Major Preston. The First Class
chote to disregard Preston's directive
g u a r d te
NOV 16 & 17
RRST C L A SS
FTX Marks
Leadership,
Diversity
Chris Hartwell
Co-Editor-in-Chief
The VMl Corps of Cadets will
experience a taste of the outdoors in the
upcoming Spring Field Training Exer-cise
(FTX) to he held April 22nd to the
24ih.
•The goal of this FTX is that
every man have the opportunity to en-gage
in an activity that he has an interest
in." said Lieutenant Colonel Scott, As-sistant
Commandant. Special Projects and
Staff coordinator; "that they each take a
leadership role and learn how to plan and
execute an exercise successfully."
Last years Spring FTX. held at
Major Chase's farm, was not an over-whelming
success.
"It just wasn't an effective lead-ership
exercise," said Cadet Dave Reck.
"I thought that was the biggest problem.
One thing cadet privates need is the op-portunity
to prove that they are effective
leaders. I mean, darn it. some of us are.
Any opportunity we had to take charge
last spring, turned into chaos."
This years FTX is geared tosol ve
that problem. Last November, the regi-mental
staff chose four motivated pri-vates.
Jeff Godby. Dave Tillar. Chad
Tester and Pete Frabel. lo head off each
of the activities. So far their duties have
included, designing ihe specific itiner-ary.
planning transportation and devel-oping
a four day menu. The staff also
selected a private from each company to
administer operations at acompany level.
While in the planning, the offic-ers
of the regimental staff have worked as
liaisons to help coordinate the logistics.
"The privates are Ihe nucleus of
the planning," said Cadet Geoff Blume.
Regimental logistics coordinator. "We
want them to reap the benefits from this
leadershipacti vity. The Regimental Staff
have practically stepped aside, although
we do plan to assist with the logistics
during the four day exercise."
The cadets who participate in
the activities will also have the opportu-nity
to prove their leadership. Each rep-resentative
will separate the cadets into
small groups assigning the participants
with a leadership role. These roles will
change throughout the weekend.
A tactical officer will accom-pany
each of the events. He will not act
as an adminisuator. but will oversee the
Continued on Puge S
and proceeded to attend the trial. As a
result, uptin Major Preston's recommen-dation.
Superintendent Smith dismissed
the entire First Class. The Board of
Visitors responded to the pleas of the
dismissed cadets and reinstated the First
Class, but mandated Post Confinement
for Ihe Class of 1851 until graduation.
That next year, an uprising of a different
Continued on Page 5
SENIOR CADETS IN
A L L I ST
Foreign
Study In
Germany
Bob Sialey
Co-Ediior-In-Chief
Every year cadets have the
opponunity to study abroad through
various programs sponsored by the
VMl Foreign Study Committee,
headed by history professor Col. Tom
Davis.
One of the most popular and
competetive programs involves study
at the Universitat der Bundeswehr in
either Munich (x Ilamburg. Germany.
Each year, two cadets are selected to
attend the University in Hamburg, and
one in Munich.
Cadets selected to attend ei-ther
one of the Bundeswehr Universi-ties
do not have to pay for tuition or
kxlging, in accordance with Cierman
law which provides worthy students
with a free university education. I"he
only costs for cadets involve tfavel,
food, and personal expenses. Tlte av-erage
cost for the ten-month pericxl is
approximately $4.000 00. including
round-trip air-fare.
At Ihe Bundeswehr Univer-sity.
cadets have the opportunity may
participate in all academic
classes,which are taught in Cicrman,
and vinually all other activities. Ca-dets
interested in the military also have
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