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Friday • September 1, 1995
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•The Battalion
ce shuttle En
deavour Is grounded
for additional repairs.
:, CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
'**).s*-4^Mice shuttle Endeav-
s sfienct* miasioti, already
delayed by O-rtn# repairs, was
it off for another week
.jorsday when an electricitv-
.•ienera^ng unit overheated
•horrfe before liftoff.
NASA eaid the problem was
(robably caused by a stuck
„fke in one of the shuttle’s
ttrw* fuel cells, which burn hep
ythydrogett and oxygen to
,^Derate electricity used by the
,^ac(«raft throughout a fliglit.
Second woman aims
to join The Citadel
ifhere are times
limn the hardware's
to stick its
ongue out at you."
pV, ~ Bob Sieck
shuttle operations director
'Hie 255-pound cells are so
iilaca! &At the feilure of even
orbit would force NASA
a shuttle buck to
\ arlh-as sixm ag possilde.
SQttea\'(mr had not yet been
M and the five astronauts
ttd hot yet boarded when the
ach was scruf^>ed: with 7
jrs to go.
* 'There arc th,rv?s when the
weare’i;going to stick its
. ib out at you. The prob-
ki, ydU flhd A, you fix it and
you get on with what the me
id all about,” said shuttle
operations director Bob Sieck,
.iNASA will try again Sept. 7
bfewflcii RndeavbUr after re-
Ihe failed unit with a
M, $3 million spare.
The tnisslon to release a
science satellites al-
fedy was nf’orly a month late
' wee work to replace the
..'nnal insulation surround-
% O-tirig seals in the solid
fet boosters.
.Wot rocket gas singed O-
j§if« in the boosters of two
j'jiler shuttles earlier this
Earner, forcing the repairs
aEndeavour.
□ A North Carolina high
school senior wants to
enter the military
institution in Fall 1996.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) —
1 he next woman who wants to
march in the all-male corps at
Ihe Citadel is a military acade
my student and star athlete who
has a brother in the college and
a father who is an alumnus.
Nancy Mellette, a 17-year-old
senior at a North Carolina mili
tary boarding school, is asking
to intervene in the Shannon
b aulkner case, according to fed
eral court papers filed Thurs
day by lawyers who also repre-i
sented Faulkner in her quest to
become a cadet.
Mellette wants to join The
Citadel in the fall of 1996.
T think she could do the'
physical part of it ... but I’m not
too sure how they would treat
her,” Katherine Mellette, her
twin sister, said outside the fam
ily home in suburban Columbia, 7
Her mother,
Connie, said
she admired
her daughter
for "having the
courage to even
try to take this
step.”
F a u 1 k n e‘ r
fought a 2 1/2-
year court battle
to become a
cadet at the
state-supported
military college. She became ill
during a day of rigorous training
during what is known as “hell
week’ 1 and quit five days later.
She said the stress of the court
battle and her isolation at the
college threatened her health.
South Carolina Attorney Gen
eral Charles Condon said he
would fight Mellette’s bid.
“Obviously they’re very adept
at public relations,” he said of
the women’s lawyers. “They’ve
taken a bath in public relations
and they’ve gotten a new and
improved model.”
Mellette is a second lieu
tenant in the Ohk Ridge Military
Academy corps of cadets, court
papers said. She is qn the cross
country, track, basketball and
softball teams. Calls to Oakridge
administrators to get comment
from her were not returned.
Lawyer Val Vojdik originally
said two Women wanted to join
the corps, but she said only one
is pursuing the matter for now.
She would not elaborate.
Vojdik would not say whether
Mellette had approached the
lawyers or they approached her
after Faulkner dropped out.
Mellette has not yet applied
to The Citadel, the school said.
Her brother, a senior and cap
tain at the' college, did not re
turn a call to his barracks room.
It wasn’t irntnediately known
what year her father graduated
from the school.
Mellette must intervene to
have a say in the November trial
of a women’s leadership program
that South Carolina has pro
posed as a way to prevent
women from breaking the all-
maje tradition at The Citadel,
Vojdik said.
'Twenty-two
students ar-
i'ErVfed at pri-
j^vate Converse
College in
Spartanburg
on Wednesday
tq begin the
' T first year of
the South
Carolina Insti
tute of Lead-
PP ership for
■ ' Women.
In Virginia, the 4th U.S. Cir
cuit Court of Appeals has ap
proved a similar program set up
by the Virginia Military Insti
tute, the nation’s only other
state-supported, all-male mili
tary college. The women’s pro
gram began last week at Mary
Baldwin College.
The Justice Department,
which is challenging all-male ad
mission policies at The Citadel
and VMI, has asked the U.S.
Supreme Court to declare the
separ&te-but-equal program at
Mary Baldwin unconstitutional.
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