Citadel

A T-shirt on campus compares The Citadel cadets to the spotted owls. It calls them both ''Endangered Species.'' A button worn in the visitors' gallery of the courtroom makes its own point. It reads: ''Save the Males.''The Citadel -- along with the Virginia Military Institute -- is literally the last bastion of the all-male public military colleges. It's a bastion under siege by a young woman named Shannon Faulkner, who wants to join the cadet corps and thinks she has the Constitution on her side.

"If we were worth a ----, we wouldn't be playing at The Citadel." -- My Losing Season A teammate of Pat Conroy's made that observation during their senior year at The Citadel, back in 1966-67, when the seeds of The Great Santini and The Lords of Discipline were germinating in the Bulldogs' point guard. Pat Dennis, the coach who is in his 13th season tilting at windmills at the military academy in Charleston, S.C., has a signed copy of My Losing Season, an autobiographical work about Conroy's final go-round in the game.

This will be a great country if the militia don't blow it up.Vince Foster was never so useful as after his death. Takes the rap for anything.VMI and Citadel had 15 years to become privately endowed. Their defense was all tactics and no strategy.A lot of games could use an All-Star break.Pub Date: 7/08/96

Don't mock Paula Jones. She is a greater threat to Bill than Newt is.Israel's new government and the PLO finally agreed that the one thing worse than dealing with each other is not.Two hundred years ago in Bawlamer, you could swim in Light Street; North Avenue was the country; most people were very poor and had to eat oysters.Citadel 1, justice 0.Pub Date: 1/15/97

The Naval Academy won the first Navy Jamboree soccer tournament yesterday with a 4-0 victory over Monmouth in Annapolis.Towson State matched Navy's 2-0 tournament mark with a 4-3 win over The Citadel, but the Mids earned the title on their 8-0 goal differential compared to the Tigers' 6-3.Against Monmouth, the Mids scored three times in the first period as Aaron Swenson, John Watkins and Seth Walters knocked in goals. P. K. Kennedy scored his third goal of the year in the second half.For Towson, Todd Hicks scored one goal and had an assist.

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court, taking on its most significant sex equality case in nearly two decades, agreed yesterday to settle the simmering constitutional dispute over the ban on women at Virginia Military Institute.The case appears to test whether "separate but equal" public education is as unconstitutional for women as it has been for blacks since the ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954.VMI, a prestigious military college in Lexington, Va., that is partly financed with state money, has allowed only men to enter during its 156-year existence.

Baseball Cincinnati Reds -- Optioned P Milt Hill to Triple-A Nashville. Called up C Rick Wrona from Nashville.New York Mets -- Placed OF Vince Coleman on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to April 10.CollegesThe Citadel -- Named Pat Dennis basketball coach. Dennis is a former assistant at Loyola (Md.) and Towson State.Northern Arizona -- Named Brent Myers defensive assistant.Notre Dame -- Named Tom Clements quarterbacks coach.St. John's -- Announced the retirement of basketball coach Lou Carnesecca.

The Citadel was a great idea 150 years ago -- a military school situated down South Carolina way, in case a Civil War might break out.It was all male, of course. Pretty much all the colleges were. Besides, if Scarlett O'Hara had wanted to attend college, she wasn't going anywhere that required double-time marching.Times have changed. The Citadel, a center of antediluvian thought, had not. Until yesterday.It was yesterday, on her 19th birthday, that Shannon Faulkner walked, maybe in double time, through the hallowed halls and headed to class -- a Supreme Court ruling in her hip pocket -- to become The Citadel's first woman student.

BASEBALLAmerican League* KANSAS CITY ROYALS -- Placed Keith Miller, infielder, on the 15-day disabled list. Recalled Terry Shumpert, infielder, from Omaha of the American Association.* TEXAS RANGERS -- Recalled Gerald Alexander, pitcher, from Oklahoma City of the American Association. Sent Roger Pavlik, pitcher, to Oklahoma City.BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association* DENVER NUGGETS -- Named Dan Issel coach; Gene Littles and Mike Evans assistant coaches.* HOUSTON ROCKETS -- Signed Rudy Tomjanovich, coach, to a three-year contract.