
                         THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
                 Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 29, 1994                    TAG: 9406290377 
SECTION: FRONT                     PAGE: A5    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS 
DATELINE: 940629                                 LENGTH: CHARLESTON, S.C.

CITADEL SAYS FEMALE CADET WOULD NEED SHORT HAIRCUT

{LEAD} If Shannon Faulkner wants to be the first woman to march with The Citadel's all-male corps of cadets she should have to look like one, crew cut and all, the college told a judge.

Her lawyers, however, said Tuesday that the requirement would be punitive and inconsistent with the way the military treats women.

{REST} Both sides in the sex discrimination lawsuit submitted plans Monday to U.S. District Judge C. Weston Houck for admitting Faulkner to the state-supported military school.

The judge will rule next month whether she will be admitted. Houck also has said he may hold a hearing to resolve the differences in the plans.

The Citadel proposes that Faulkner continue as a day student next school year, and then move into a private room in the college infirmary and begin military training in the fall of 1995.

Faulkner wants to be allowed in the barracks and begin training this fall.

Both plans propose safeguards to prevent sexual harassment.

The college also says that Faulkner would have to get a close-cropped haircut - called a knob cut because the cadets who get them are said to resemble doorknobs.

``I disagree as a matter of policy women should be required to shave their heads,'' said lawyer Val Vojdik. ``I think the Citadel's insistence on it is purely punitive.''

She said a man's hair would start to grow back in a few days but that it might take months before a woman's hair regains its normal length.

{KEYWORDS} WOMEN IN THE MILITARY by CNB