U.S. Joins Woman’s Suit to Enter Citadel
The Justice Department plans to join a woman’s legal challenge to The Citadel’s all-male admissions policy, a lawyer for the agency said.
James Turner, in the department’s civil rights division, wrote Gov. Carroll Campbell and the state attorney general’s office that limiting admission to the military college’s daytime, four-year undergraduate program is unconstitutional.
Turner wrote this week that the agency would intervene as a plaintiff in a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by Shannon Richey Faulkner, who was admitted on a provisional basis in January after references to her gender were omitted from her high school transcripts.
The Citadel rejected her in February after realizing she was a woman, her lawsuit said.
Women are allowed to take summer and evening classes.
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