The Secret War of Lisa Simpson

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The Secret War of Lisa Simpson

Lisa enrolls in an all-male military school and is subject to hazing and silent treatments by the cadets.

Cast: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Harry Shearer, Hank Azaria Executive Producer(s): James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, David Mirkin

Original Air Date: May 18, 1997










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Shannon Faulkner

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Shannon Faulkner, born in Powdersville, South Carolina, United States, graduated from Wren High School in 1993, was the first female cadet to enter The Citadel. Faulkner enrolled after a successful lawsuit against the military academy. She joined an otherwise all-male class on August 15, 1995 under the escort of United States Marshals. After four hours of the military indoctrination training,[citation needed] she spent the remainder of the first week in the infirmary before voluntarily resigning, citing emotional and psychological abuse and physical exhaustion. After her departure, the male cadets openly celebrated on the campus.

Writer Pat Conroy paid for Faulkner's education after she left the Citadel, and she became a middle school teacher in South Carolina. By December 2009, The Citadel had graduated 205 female cadets since Faulkner's admission.










http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20121020/PC12/121029996

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Where is Shannon Faulkner now? First female cadet at The Citadel talks with Oprah again

Jennifer Berry Hawes

Oct 20 2012 12:01 am

Beneath a green umbrella, rain and tears falling before the press microphones, five days after finally forcing her way into The Citadel Corps of Cadets, Shannon Faulkner announced she was leaving.










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Case Study 1: Shannon Faulkner and the Citadel

[Optional Readings]

[Note: This reading is optional for Group A participants]

Catherine S. Manegold, "In Glory's Shadow."

Interview, December 1, 1999.

By forcing the Citadel to let her in, Shannon Faulkner broke down the doors of one of the toughest all-male clubs in the country. But that was just the beginning of the battle. In her new book, In Glory's Shadow (Knopf), excerpted here, Catherine S. Manegold offers an up close look at Faulkner's historic achievement--and the price she paid for it.

For 157 years the Citadel--the famously rigorous military academy in Charleston, South Carolina--has been associated with austerity, sexism, and cruel hazing rites. In its attempts to produce an elite, loyal fraternity, the academy effectively weeds out "unfit" cadets, who usually drop out within the first few weeks from exhaustion or intimidation--or both. For 153 of those years, only men were allowed to endure these punishing rituals. But in August 1995, against the school's wishes, all that changed: Nineteen-year-old Shannon Faulkner dared to join this exclusive brotherhood, rocking the very foundations of one of the most entrenched good-ol'-boy institutions in America.

After a landmark three-year legal battle, which was ultimately brought before the Supreme Court, Faulkner won the right to attend the Citadel on the grounds that a public institution could not discriminate on the basis of sex. The victory, however, was largely a symbolic one: The school hadn't wanted her in the first place, and she was despised by many of her fellow cadets. Faulkner quit the Citadel after just one week, worn out and defeated.

Still, as a result of her efforts, the doors at the Citadel, as well as other all-male institutions, had been decisively opened to women, and the next year four female cadets enrolled in the academy's freshman class.

Okay, so it was true, he [the Citadel's commandant, Roger Popham] acknowledged, old traditions would survive. The corps would stay all-male for now. He shrugged. That was fine with him. He would pick up Shannon and her family and that woman lawyer who had come down, too, and drive them all off campus. It was a job like any other job. "Of course," he said stiffly, sounding utterly unconvinced, "I'm very pleased the school will stay all-male." He pulled his Jeep in front of the low white infirmary and eased it to a stop. The windshield wipers splashed in a sudden burst of rain. "I think the school should stay the same," he said. "Yes, sure, I am happy about that. But I'm not happy for her." He left the engine running and turned the airconditioning up high, then peered distractedly into a low kaleidoscope of clouds. "I'm sure this must be hard for her. I have daughters of my own."

As Popham spoke, Shannon bolted from the infirmary and headed toward her barracks. Suzanne Coe, bedraggled and in tears, followed in her wake. Stopping underneath a tree for shelter, Shannon's lawyer answered questions in her normal rush. "She has been in this fight for three years," Coe said shakily. "She's not up to this. She's all alone. She doesn't want to stay. She doesn't want to go through life like this. This was a hostile atmosphere."

There was a roar above her. The news was out. The only thing still missing was a quick drive off the campus. From one building to the next cadets began to yell. Coe looked up and wiped a stream of water from her face, then raised her voice above the uproar. "These are the people who testified against her in court," she said, fighting back tears. "She has had death threats and constant harassment. She's upset. She's very tired. Nobody likes what we're doing here today. Nobody is happy. But it's been an emotional roller coaster for three years, and she wanted to step off."

Reporters peered in a side gate in Shannon's barracks, straining for a glimpse. A cadre member saw them and pushed a crowd of knobs [freshmen] up to the gate. He lined them up three deep and kept them huddled in a human wall. "Click," he said. Twenty boys locked into close attention, all eyes upon the corporal.

When Shannon reemerged she planted herself in front of a sodden huddle of reporters, choking back a surge of tears. Ed [Faulkner, Shannon's father] hovered in the background, ready for the end. "It's hard for me to leave," Shannon said with her voice cracking. Tears streamed down her cheeks. Her stomach heaved, her voice choked, a sudden downpour cascaded in thin rivulets down her brown hair and shaking legs. "This is something I have worked toward for so long."

A lot of people thought she should have skipped that sad last act. The Citadel had prepared a car and an easy escape route complete with a police escort. They expected her to slip out a back door, the picture of defeat. But that was never Shannon's style. And that was not her exit. Instead, she stopped out on the wet concrete and faced reporters with her hair in tangles and her cheeks drenched in salty tears and her clothes all soaked with seaside rain and sticky as she thanked a lot of people but haltingly admitted that, no, she could not do it. Three years in court had been too much. The toll of that long fight was more than she could bear. The isolation was too painful. The ordeal had been too long. She could not keep her food down now. She could not face the year alone. She would not break the barrier. The barrier had broken her. Now she was terrified. And she was sick. And she was quitting.

"I'm sorry," she told so many. "All I can say is I have to think about my own health right now."

The cameras clicked and spun.

Suzanne Coe stayed over to one side and cried. It was a bad last day. And it had come up fast. From the outside it looked as though Shannon had marched for barely half a day, then fallen ill and lost her nerve. Three years in court came down to that. Her breakdown was quite obvious. But the pieces of it hardly fit. One day she was laughing and triumphant. The next she was walking weakly toward the school infirmary while cadets snapped and marched at either side. Half a day of marching could hardly have done that. Only a few observers really grasped the choreography. They nodded while they watched the scene play out. The Citadel could break anyone, they said glumly. That was the school's tradition. Indeed, that was its point: order and control. Shannon was a magnet for that fate.

When Shannon finished speaking, Ed helped his daughter into Popham's waiting Jeep. Popham looked about him once to make sure all the doors were closed. Then he turned the wheel and laid his foot hard on the gas pedal.

On the road out near the college gates, three cadets in soaking uniforms danced as the Jeep passed by. "Hey, hey, the witch is dead. The witch is dead, the witch is dead. Hey, hey, the witch is dead...." They raised their legs like showgirls.

Jeremy Wilson, the razor-faced senior who commanded Third Battalion, was staring hard into a camera. "I think it went well," he said above the uproar. "I think the corps of cadets handled it well and so did India Company. Everybody did what they had to do. She was going to receive the same training as the rest of the cadets."

Behind him, a small group of boys marched past, shouting: "God bless the all-male corps of cadets."

Another group ran behind them, following their wet and flapping company flag, slamming their feet against the pavement in loud syncopated steps.

Moments later, the skies cleared. Just as suddenly as the rain had come, the day abruptly brightened. The sun came back out burning and left a veil of steam to rise above black asphalt in a dank perfume. Inside the barracks all at once a roar gathered and gained volume. By the time Popham and his famous cargo had wheeled through the campus gates, that college riot found its wild crescendo. Barracks buildings exploded with noise. Everywhere, cadets hugged and cheered and shouted. Shannon Faulkner was gone. The war was over. Their celebration was spontaneous and mean.

As Popham's Jeep slipped past a grim-faced sentry, young men in matching shorts and T-shirts heaved mattresses from first-floor rooms then ran, sliding, over rain-slicked ground. With awful whoops they threw the plastic bedding out before them and climbed on board, "quad surfing" over wet concrete. All four quadrangles roared with cheers and laughter. Cadets ran and slipped and let out noisy whoops, swinging sodden shirts over their heads. Bare chested, they tore at one another's clothes and then leapt piggyback onto the backs of friends and classmates. Students with their heads shaved nearly clean ripped off their hats and dropped down to their knees to howl with delight. Yeeee-haaaaa! They gulped that unexpected victory and splashed and slapped and punched each other roughly in shared glee. Cadre sophomores doubled over laughing and yowled nonsense syllables in crazy bursts. A lot of the new boys joined in, too, caught up in that mass ecstasy.










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The Simpsons (TV Series)

The Secret War of Lisa Simpson (1997)

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Firing Range Instructor: Since you've attended public schools, I'm going to assume you're already proficient with small arms. So, we'll start you off with something a little more advanced.

[hands Bart a grenade launcher]

Bart Simpson: Wow.










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The Secret War of Lisa Simpson


[ Firing Range Instructor: ] You're a born soldier, Simpson. Too bad it doesn't run in your family.

[ Lisa Simpson: ] Um, could someone help me? It's stuck on auto fire.










From 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates the United States Army veteran and the Harvard University graduate medical doctor and the world-famous actress and the wife of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 8/15/1995 is 11718 days

11718 = 5859 + 5859

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/17/1981 ( Ronald Reagan - Statement on America's All-Volunteer Armed Forces ) is 5859 days





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Q Who is Shannon Faulkner?

Last Updated: Sep 09, 2014

A Answer

First woman enrolled at The Citadel as a member of the Corps of Cadets. Born in 1975 in Powdersville, S.C. Her application for admission was accepted in January 1993, then rejected when it was learned that she was female. She brought suit in the U. S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, Charleston Division, for admission on grounds of equal protection under the law. Judge Weston Houck ruled in her favor (Faulkner v. Jones, 858 F.Supp. 552, decided July 22, 1994).

Faulkner began taking classes, but still was not admitted to the Corps. In 1995, the U. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed the District Court's ruling, paving the way for her admission as a cadet (Faulkner v. Jones, 51 F.3d 440, decided April 13, 1995).

Before the courts Faulkner was represented by the New York City law firm of Shearman & Sterling (lead counsel: Valorie Kay Vojdik); The Citadel by the Charleston law firm of Barnwell, Whaley, Patterson & Helms (lead counsel: Dawes Cook).

Faulkner joined the Corps of Cadets on August 15, 1995. One week later she resigned, citing exhaustion and complaining of maltreatment. A lawsuit for damages ensued.



http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20121020/PC12/121029996

The Post and Courier


Where is Shannon Faulkner now? First female cadet at The Citadel talks with Oprah again

Jennifer Berry Hawes

Oct 20 2012 12:01 am


She became the first female cadet at The Citadel on Aug. 15, 1995, under the escort of U.S. marshals.










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The Secret War of Lisa Simpson [ The Simpsons ]

Original Airdate on FOX: 18-May-1997


% Marge gives Lisa the opportunity to opt out.

Marge: Lisa, if you ever want to quit and come home, I'll be here in half a jiff.

Bart: [poking his head into frame] I want to quit and come home. [cut to shot of family getting into car] I want to quit and come home.

Marge: Aw, honey, I heard you the first time.

[kisses him goodbye, gets in the car, and leaves]


% With their parents gone, Bart and Lisa begin to settle in to their
% new environment. The commandant introduces the kids to their barrack-
% mates.

Commandant: Atten-hut! Gentlemen, we now have a girl cadet among our ranks, so we're going to have to make a few changes. First of all, Franklin, you are no longer the girliest cadet here.

Franklin: [effeminate] Well, we'll see about that.










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By The Associated Press


Bush seemed stoic about the election, proclaiming: "This isn't my first rodeo."










From 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) To 11/17/1981 is 3615 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/26/1975 ( premiere US film "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" ) is 3615 days



From 8/17/1960 ( premiere US film "The Time Machine" ) To 11/17/1981 is 7762 days

7762 = 3881 + 3881

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/18/1976 ( premiere US film "Midway" ) is 3881 days



From 8/17/1960 ( the Soviet Union trial of the United States Central Intelligence Agency pilot Gary Powers begins in Moscow Russia Soviet Union ) To 11/17/1981 is 7762 days

7762 = 3881 + 3881

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/18/1976 ( premiere US film "Midway" ) is 3881 days





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The American Presidency Project

Ronald Reagan

XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989

Statement on America's All-Volunteer Armed Forces

November 17, 1981

Fiscal year 1981 was an important milestone in the history of America's all-volunteer armed forces. It demonstrated that, in a healthy, just society, men and women will serve their country freely, when given the proper encouragement, incentives, and respect.

All of the services met their recruiting goals in fiscal 1981; test scores improved dramatically; recruits included the highest proportion of high school graduates ever; and enlistment rates were up for all services.

Working with the Congress, we have begun to reverse the negative trends of the last few years in the standard of living of our military personnel. We have done this through more competitive pay, increased enlistment and reenlistment bonuses, and enhanced educational benefits. Just as important, we have fostered an attitude of increased appreciation and respect for the men and women who wear their country's uniform.

There is a new spirit of pride and patriotism alive in the land, and the impressive manpower record of the armed forces during fiscal year 1981 reflects this. Just as volunteer warriors won American independence more than two centuries ago, they stand as proud guardians of our freedom today. The success of this past year shows that the voluntary system can work and represents the best way to meet our manpower requirements in times of peace.










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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

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USA 26 September 1975 (Los Angeles, California)










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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

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Riff Raff: With a bit of a mind flip...

Magenta: You're into a time slip...

Riff Raff: And nothing can ever be the same.

Magenta: You're spaced out on sensation. HAH!

Riff Raff: Like you're under sedation!

All: Let's do the time warp again!



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 11:02 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 10 August 2015