2 The Pilot / February 7, 1994
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Women should have same Faulkner must walk the
A third perspective on the
Faulkner situation
We began using a theme for the forum to
address certain issues, not necessarily campus-
related, which have the power to affect young
adults today (editorial letters are still welcome so
please feel free to write to us on any issue).
This week we chose to discuss the Faulkner
case and whether women should be admitted to
The Citadel. While it is not common for this space
to be used in conjunction with the forum, I had a
burning desire to jump into the fray myself this
week.
Men and women throughout the ages have
enjoyed each other and have voted to unite in one
way or the other. Whether it is a successful union
is not really the point.
The point is, men and women need healthy
interaction - but they also need a place to go in
order to understand just what exactly being a man
or woman means, or to just get away.
It seems that there is a movement now that
tries to make us believe that there are really no
differences between men and women except for
a few more, or less, parts. This is false.
Shannon Faullaier wants to attend day
classes at The Citadel, a school full of tradition,
one of which is that it only accept males.
Is there anything really wrong with that?
What is wrong with a school or organization in
which only males are allowed to participate?
Of course, there would also have to be a
place for females to interact also. Therein lies the
dilemma. Faulkner wants to go to The Citadel
because she wants the kind of education she feels
she can only receive there. There is no female
equivalent of The Citadel.
Court cases have been fought in the last few
years over letting girls in the Boy Scouts (Do we
start calling them People Scouts?) and letting
women into men’s organizations. Who are we to
say that a young man, or woman cannot go to a
school, or meeting, comprised solely of their
own sex? This is not an equality issue,* this is a
freedom issue and the ones suffering are the
cadets of The Citadel, the many who are suffer
ing to appease the one, and Faulkner,who suffers
from the lack of an alternative.
Greg Carpenter
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opportunities as men
The question here is whether or not
Shannon Faulkner should attend the Citadel.
She is currently taking classes but she was not
considered a cadet.
My question is why ?
If the Naval Academy will admit women
as cadets, why won'tTne Citadel? If they will
not, why is there not a school that gives a
female the same education as their male counter
parts?
Converse College admitted 7 men, 6
years ago. They were considered resident
students and were placed in a house across the
street from the campus.
Regardless of anything, they were an
integral part of the student body,* however,one
year later Converse rescinded this and stopped
allowing men to enter as a resident student.
The Citadel is a state supported school
paid for by the state. If it was a private school
that would be a different, but it is not.
As a resident of the state she has every
right to be there and to be a cadet. If it was a
male student trying to attend an all female
school I would say the same thing.
The school should be forced to provide
her with all that the other residents receive.
However, the school should force her to
meet some sort of physical fitness require
ment. If she does not meet the requirement
then give her sufficient time to bring herself
up to standards.
She should be dismissed if she fails to do
so. She should also be required to meet all
other standards that the cadets must meet.
We stopped the policy of separate but
equal along time ago. It is time for some
schools to come into the 20th century.
Stacy Stanley
Campus Calendar
Career Placement and Planning
• Teacher Ed. Job Fair - February 10
See Hope Toney, coordinator, career and
placement, for a list of schools. The job fair
will take place in the DCC banquet hall.
• Nursing Career Day - March 1
See Hope Toney in Career Placement for de
tails.
• Liberal Arts/Business Job Fair - March
10
See Hope Toney in Career Placement for de
tails.
Dept, of Fine Arts
• Departmental Student Recital - Feb. 17
9:25 a.m. in the O. Max Gardner Hall.
• Senior Recital - February 22
Steve Nanney, clarinet, will be performing in
the Dover Chapel at 8 p.m.
Residence Life
• RA applications due - Feb. 4
Gardner-Webb Theatre
• Hello Dolly - Feb. 24 - March 1
Performances begin at 8 p.m. each night with
a matinee performance at 2:30 on Sunday.
walk if she talks the talk
Shannon Faulkner has now become the
first woman to be admitted to day classes atThe
Citadel. The courts have given her the right to
register and attend class.
She is now is waiting to get the right to be
active in the corp. I disagree with both racial
and sexual discrimination.
When a man or woman goes to the other's
school there is still very little difference in
education.
The problem arises when a woman de
sires the full admittance to a military school.
Especially when she wants equal treatment.
In my opinion she should be given what
she “says” she wants. All freshman at the
Citadel participate in some required U’aditions,
in which Faulkner doesn’t. She isn’t referred
to as a “knob”.
She walks on the sidewalk, not in the
gutters. She wears what she wants, not the dull
gray that the knobs have to wear seven days a
week.
Miss Faulkner doesn’t have to salute any
one; she can also speak to anyone she wants,
while the knobs can only speak to upper
classmen when spoken to. Even then they are
limited to “Sir, yes sir. Sir, no sir. Sir, there is
no excuse sir.”
Faulkner eats in the canteen with the
public while the knobs serve the upper classmen
their meal. Those things don’t seem to be the
worst thing in the world for her to do, but I also
feel she has the right to live in the barracks, be
screamed at by superiors, ordered to do tre
mendous amounts of exercises, and have all of
her hair cut off.
That way she is getting treated no differ
ent than the other knobs.
Total Equality. If Shannon Faulkner is
ready to take the bitter with sweet then I’m all
for it, and I will support her completely.
If she isn’t prepared to conform to the
same standards of all the other knobs, then I
feel she should attend the night courses at the
Citadel where those things aren’t required.
That way, she can let those women who
are prepared to make the sacrifice, “earn” the
respect of the male students and go to day
classes.
Some women want to be equal to men,
and have the same right to do whatever men
can. The only thing is some things that men are
required to do like shaving their heads, women
get to choose not to do.
If people want equality in things like the
military they must conform to be like everyone
else, no differences.
Everyone should do the same things. They
shouldn’t be able to pick and choose which
rights they want and don’t want.
Kevin Walter
Quore oj: The Week
• It does science no good to be wedded
to an ugly, disrespectful name for Genesis.
-Timothy Farris, as
tronomy writer and judge in the contest to find a new
name for the Big Bang.
Student Entertainment Association
• j-Street - February 12
The smooth jazz sound of j-Street in the DCC
Banquet Hall from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m.