Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, April 2, 1994 TAG: 9404040191
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-4 NATL/INTL EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: CHARLESTON, S.C. LENGTH: Medium
Admitting Shannon Faulkner was not on the list.
Among the suggestions were sending students to out-of-state military schools, providing support for private women's schools and creating a coeducational corps of cadets at another state college.
The 10-page plan said the college could not be more specific because there's been no ruling whether its all-male admissions policy is illegal.
Faulkner, 19, is suing to join the corps in a case set for trial May 16. She has attended classes at the state military school under court order since January but she has not been allowed to join the corps of cadets.
Friday was the deadline set by U.S. District Judge C. Weston Houck for The Citadel to propose remedies in the event it loses.
``It's like having to provide the solution to a puzzle without having seen the puzzle,'' said college spokesman Rick Mill.
But Val Vojdik, an attorney for Faulkner, said it was no plan at all.
``Basically South Carolina has refused to offer any remedy,'' she said. ``There is no plan on the table and if there is no plan, the only remedy is coeducation of The Citadel.''
If The Citadel loses, the state could be required to either expand single-gender education for women or provide a coeducational military program, the plan said.
If a single-gender program is the remedy, it proposes increasing tuition assistance to private women's colleges or a compact with a women's school for a leadership program.
Virginia Military Institute, whose all-male admissions policy also is under fire, has proposed such a program at Mary Baldwin College.
If the court rules that South Carolina must provide a coeducational military program, the state could increase tuition assistance for students at existing coed ROTC programs, the plan said.
Other options include creating a cadet corps at a coed state or private college or sending students to out-of-state schools with similar programs.
The plan said The Citadel would have a more specific proposal within 60 days if its admissions policy is ruled unconstitutional.
by CNB