FEMALE STUDENT SUES CITADEL ON ADMISSION

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 3, 1993                   TAG: 9303030243
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: CHARLESTON, S.C.                                LENGTH: Short
FEMALE STUDENT SUES CITADEL ON ADMISSION
A high school student who was accepted, then rejected by The Citadel when school officials learned she was a woman, sued the military college Tuesday.
"This is a direct attack on the corps of cadets," said Suzanne Coe, the attorney for 18-year-old Shannon Faulkner.
The class-action lawsuit charges that the state-supported college's admissions policy violates Faulkner's equal-protection rights and asks that she be admitted to the all-male corps of cadets.
The Citadel and Virginia Military Institute are the only all-male, state-supported military schools in the nation.
The college's application does not ask a student's sex. Faulkner had asked that her transcripts delete any reference to her gender. The Citadel learned she was a woman when it contacted officials at her high school for more information.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB