European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 30, 1994 commentary the stars afield stripes Page .13faulkner faces slings and arrows of Long wait James j. Kilpatrick Shannon Faulkner meet the brooding Hamlet. You two have much to Brood about. Faulkner As most of the country is now aware is the Young woman who sued last year for admission to the Cadet corps of the Citadel in Charleston . Prince Hamlet you will recall asked question s for All time. A _ who would Bear the whips and scorns of time who would Bear the oppressors wrong the Laws delay he might have Dweller especially on the Laws delay. Faulkner appeared to have won her suit on july 22. . District judge c. Weston Houck ordered the College to admit her  she packed her bags. She agreed to endure a a a Knob haircut with other first year students. She prepared to enrol on aug. 15. Then on aug. 12, hamlets baneful Specter raised its ugly head More delay. The . Court of appeals for the 4th circuit agreed to hear the schools Appeal next december. What with the writing of briefs the hearing of argument and the writing of an opinion it will be months before a panel of the 4th circuit renders its decision. Then will come a motion for a rehearing in Banc followed by a petition to the . Supreme court which petition if granted will be followed by the writing of briefs the hearing of argument and the writing of a High court opinion. Houck predicted gloomily that it May be 1996, after Faulkner a Junior year before the last order is entered. What did Hamlet say about the Laws delays they re hard to Bear. My heart is on the citadels Side. It ought to be possible the 14th amendment notwithstanding for the Citadel to remain a. Bastion of male bonding. If Faulkner ultimately wins admission to the corps by Houcks estimate from 20 to 50 women annually will be admitted thereafter to a corps of 2,000. Each Man kills the thing he loves wrote Oscar Wilde. If the Young women have their Way they will Nave killed the very elements of the Citadel they profess to Admire most of All. My head tells me that Faulkner has been badly treated. As i read the Law state colleges cannot discriminate on account of sex any More than they can discriminate on account of race Houck was right on target. The citadels lawyers have raised procrastination to a Fine Art. Beyond a grudging offer to House Cadet Faulkner in a private room in the infirmary the school has dragged its combat boots. For a school that prides itself upon discipline Honor and obedience to authority this has not been a shining hour. The business of the haircut Drew National attention. Faulkner a counsel moved desperately for an order forbidding the Citadel from giving her the same Burr haircut that welcomes other first year students. On aug. 5, Houck denied the motion. He ruled quite sensibly that this is not the stuff of constitutional Law. The Young woman a counsel pursued the matter on aug. 9. A Knob Cut they insisted serves no compelling educational purpose. It penalizes Faulkner for asserting a constitutional right. The Cut is degrading. It is simple harassment designed to discourage other women from applying in the future. To these lamentations the Citadel responded coldly. What were her lawyers saying was she More vain than her male counterparts because she is a woman were the lawyers arguing that she is less Able to tolerate humiliation on this crucial Issue the Citadel prevailed. Off with her locks the Point May now be moot but for the record More than 20 years ago in Massie is. Henry the 4th circuit ruled upon such cosmic Battle the Case involved a  of longhaired students at Tuscola High school in Haywood county . The principal suspended them for having hair that flowed Over their cars and below their collars. Judge Harrison l Winter held that the schools Rule violated the students constitutional right to Liberty. The school had not shown that the Long hair caused significant disruption. A year later the 4th circuit reaffirmed this ruling in a West Virginia Case involving a High school football player whose Long hair Cost him his letter. Those hairy precedents probably have no. Application to a quasi military institution where uniformity in appearance is indispensable to Good order but they offer Shannon Faulkner something to think about. As she pursues her studies As a Day student she will have plenty of time of think. Who will Bear the Laws delays Shannon Faulkner that a  Unive Raat press Syndicate fighting crime watching and listening to the unedited debate on a Span concerning the proposals to reduce crime made one wish that the truth in la being Law applied to legislation As Well As food. Could those making impassioned pleas to pass the a crime Bill really believe its programs will work if members of Congress were unaware of the facts they were naive and had t fully studied the Issue. If they knew the facts and held positions that contradicted the evidence they were lying to us. Supporters of the Bill acted As if the billions of dollars m additional spending for social programs which they called a crime prevention Quot amounted to something  was no More new than attempts by the Federal government to end poverty by throwing Money at the poor without addressing the poverty of some of their souls. We have spent $3 trillion fighting crime in our cities with social  approach has followed the Liberal philosophy that people commit crimes because their material desires have not been sufficiently met. This is Why we get proposals such As Midnight basketball and Cav is on self esteem. The Republican minority in the Senate was i a it to take a principled stand against the democrats Shihng out More Money for programs that history shows just Don t work. Urcla problem it a James a Wilson in the september Issue of commentary Magazine offers a reality Check about crime and our mostly failed responses to it Wilson says that Only about 6 percent of the Young male population is responsible for More than Naif of All serious crimes committed by Young men so proposals for reducing crime should focus on that 6 percent. He also asserts that the most frightening change in criminality Over the past 10 years is the growth of random killings by Young people most of them male Wilson also challenges widely accepted nostrums and fads such As a three strikes and you re out legislation gun control rehabilitation and 4&x Cal Thomas censorship of violent television programs because of their negative influence on the Young. Specifically i Ilion believes that crime can be re Ducco by targeting police deployment in neighbourhoods with High rates of youth violence aggressive supervision of the Small percentage of people who arc responsible for serious violations of the Law the admits that Wal be controversial and a Challenge to civil libertarian enforcement of truancy and Curlew Laws and welfare Reform. He rejects the supposed causes of crime such As unemployment racism poor housing too Little schooling Ana Lack of self esteem. The real causes he argues Are temperament Early family experiences and the disastrous effects the neighbourhood culture of violence can have on a Young person. To which 1 would add the failure of society to instill a moral Compass and affirm a virtuous code for living republicans should do More than play defense against the democrats allegations of callousness about the poor and deprived. They should begin an offensive against failed and morally and financially bankrupt Liberal policies. The entire great society rested on the premise that government could a buy out Quot the evil that lurks in some souls. The evidence shows How wrong this thinking was. U did t work it has been incredibly expensive and now the democrats want to up the Ante the Point Dpi expressed la the columns and cartoons on Bli Page represent those of the authors and Ere in 00 Way to be considered As representing the View of the stars and stripes or the United states government