DATE: Friday, May 23, 1997                  TAG: 9705230733

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A5   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS 

DATELINE: CHARLESTON, S.C.                  LENGTH:   31 lines

CITADEL, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REACH AGREEMENT ON COED PLAN

The Citadel's updated plan for bringing in female cadets includes putting more adult advisers in the barracks, hiring a woman as assistant commandant and developing a bill of rights for cadets.

``I'm prepared to do what is necessary to make this plan work,'' Clifton Poole, the college's interim president, told U.S. District Judge C. Weston Houck.

Attorneys for the school and the Justice Department on Thursday approved a 52-point plan that is expected to cost $4.5 million over three years. The judge must still approve it.

Houck also said the coveted Citadel ring awarded to seniors must be the same design for men and women, warning that anything less would invite another lawsuit.

Attorneys who fought to get women into the state military college wondered whether there is enough money to pay for the plan.

The Citadel dropped its all-male admissions policy last year after a long court fight. Four women enrolled, but two left after one semester, alleging they were harassed.

The college has accepted 27 women for the school year that starts in August. KEYWORDS: WOMEN IN THE MILITARY MILITARY ACADEMIES

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