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

DATE: MONDAY, August 8, 1994                   TAG: 9408090039
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: C4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
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ON `BRINKLEY,' THEY WERE TALKING HEADS: SHANNON FAULKNER'S

Whether Shannon Faulkner should have to get her head shaved to become a member of The Citadel's corps of cadets has become grist for one of Washington's most influential talk shows.

Journalists appearing on ABC's ``This Week With David Brinkley'' spent several minutes Sunday talking about Faulkner's legal battle to get into the all-male corps.

U.S. Judge Weston Houck last month ordered The Citadel to admit Faulkner into the corps, but he refused to bar the school from forcing her to get the closed-cropped haircut all cadets receive.

``Arguably, the judge's head should be shaved,'' conservative columnist George Will said on the Brinkley program. Will went on to criticize the U.S. Justice Department for trying to keep Faulkner from getting her head shaved.

The haircut might be the price Faulkner has to pay, said journalist Cokie Roberts.

``The truth is that when a women goes into an institution, she changes it,'' Roberts said. ``But it takes time to make that change come about.''

Sam Donaldson suggested that Houck's refusal to let Faulkner avoid the haircut might make The Citadel think twice about whether the male cadets need the ``humiliation'' of the shaved head.

``Women should have been allowed into the Citadel years and years ago,'' Donaldson added.

Brinkley did not offer his views.

by CNB