THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Tuesday, June 6, 1995                  TAG: 9506060291
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A7   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS 
DATELINE: COLUMBIA, S.C.                     LENGTH: Short :   37 lines

S.C. RELEASES PLAN FOR WOMEN AS ALTERNATIVE TO THE CITADEL

South Carolina's proposed program to help keep women out of The Citadel's all-male cadet corps would admit 20 women to another school in August and 100 next year, state officials said Monday.

The Citadel will provide about $6.6 million to fund the $10 million women's leadership program at private Converse College in Spartanburg, said state Attorney General Charlie Condon. State taxpayers would fund the rest.

Federal courts have told South Carolina it must admit Shannon Faulkner this August or create an acceptable alternative program for women. Condon released details of the state's plan for the first time Monday.

U.S. District Judge C. Weston Houck scheduled a hearing Tuesday to review Citadel plans for admitting Faulkner to the corps in case the alternative leadership plan is not approved.

If a federal judge approves the plan, 20 women could join this August with as many as 100 the following year, Converse President Sandra Thomas said.

Students who join the South Carolina Institute of Leadership for Women would:

Live together at least one year with other leadership students in a dormitory.

Take four years of Reserve Officers' Training Corps study with once-a-week military classes and a four-week summer program.

Take leadership courses, eight semesters of physical education and special trips and seminars. by CNB