
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, December 4, 1994                   TAG: 9412060029
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

WOMEN LOSE CITADEL SUIT

A federal appeals panel has upheld a ruling allowing The Citadel to close its day-school program for veterans, an action three female veterans said the school took to keep them from joining.

A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Friday in Richmond that the state-supported military college's decision to end the program was permanent and ``not simply a step temporarily undertaken to avoid the risk of litigation.''

Patricia M. Johnson, Elizabeth A. Lacey and Angela C. Chapman sought to attend day classes in 1992 at the Charleston, S.C., school with male veterans and cadets. The Citadel's evening College of Graduate and Professional Studies is open to women, but the evening courses are inferior to the day program, said Sara Mandelbaum, a lawyer representing the women.

When the women were rejected, they sued the college in June 1992. The Citadel ended the veterans' program three months later.

by CNB