
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, August 2, 1994                   TAG: 9408030029
SECTION: NATL/INTL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: CHARLESTON, S. C.                                 LENGTH: Short

JUDGE: CITADEL MAY SHAVE FAULKNER'S HEAD

Despite protests from attorneys who called it degrading, a federal judge ruled Monday The Citadel may shave Shannon Faulkner's head when she joins the college's all-male corps of cadets.

U.S. District Judge C. Weston Houck also ordered Faulkner to stay in a private room in the college's infirmary instead of its barracks. And he rejected her request for a sexual harassment committee to monitor her progress in the corps.

``I'm not talking about anything right now,'' Faulkner said after the almost 3 1/2-hour hearing. Her attorneys also refused to comment.

Houck ruled last month the all-male admissions policy at the state-supported military college is unconstitutional and ordered Faulkner into the corps this fall. The school is appealing.

Monday's hearing was to resolve differences in plans for housing Faulkner.

The college proposed giving her a close-cropped haircut like other freshmen. Faulkner's attorneys wanted a short bob such as that given to women at the service academies.

Attorney Val Vojdik said shaving a women's head is humiliating and noted the French did it to women who collaborated with Nazis in World War II.

But Houck said the law acknowledges no difference between men and women in the way they wear their hair.

by CNB