FAULKNER BECAME THE FIRST FEMALE STUDENT TO ATTEND THE CITADEL. THAT WAS 30 YEARS AGO. TOMORROW. SHANNON SAT DOWN WITH ME TO REFLECT ON HER BATTLE AND WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED. IT’S ONE STEP ...

The sound of tradition crumbling echoed across the Deep South yesterday as Shannon Faulkner took her place among the corps of cadets at The Citadel, an all-male bastion 152 years. In the wake of ...

Calling its exclusion of women unconstitutional, a federal judge yesterday ordered The Citadel to break its 152-year-old all-male tradition by immediately admitting Shannon Faulkner, the 19-year ...

Shannon Faulkner decided she wanted to become a cadet at The Citadel in December 1992 while she was sitting in a high school honors class whose teacher was stressing the seeming impossibility of ...

A male chauvinist would take delight in Shannon Faulkner’s distress ... the distinguished military figures produced by the Citadel. But Faulkner’s lawyers went back to court and asked that ...

The Citadel’s first female graduate ... For that she owes a tip of her mortarboard to Shannon Faulkner, the woman who made it possible for Ms. Mace and her successors to earn degrees from ...

Shannon Faulkner spent less than a week in the Citadel’s corps of cadets, but her presence is still felt around campus. Faulkner set off a storm of protest several years ago when she sued to ...

‘Shannon Faulkner (has left) The Citadel. Even after just a week at The Citadel, though, she still has more military experience than Bill Clinton, (Sen.) Phil Gramm and Newt Gingrich combined.

I don’t know which has been sadder – watching young Ms. Shannon Faulkner decide that, after all, she really didn’t want to be a Citadel cadet, or the firehosing of venom on both Faulkner and ...

Shannon Faulkner couldn’t cut it at The Citadel. For many of the women’s rights activists who had cheered Faulkner on as she fought for the right to enter the all-male, taxpayer-financed South ...

Even though 25 years have passed since she became the first woman to join the Citadel Corps of Cadets, people still ask, “are you THE Shannon Faulkner?” It happens so often her friends say ...