{"id":2236383,"date":"2024-05-03T11:21:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T15:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nancy-mace-to-deliver-citadel-address-25-years-after-her-historic-graduation\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T11:24:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T15:24:19","slug":"nancy-mace-to-deliver-citadel-address-25-years-after-her-historic-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nancy-mace-to-deliver-citadel-address-25-years-after-her-historic-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Mace to Give Citadel Address 25 Years After Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnancy-mace-to-deliver-citadel-address-25-years-after-her-historic-graduation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2236383&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) will deliver the Citadel&#8217;s commencement address, 25 years after becoming the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/can-men-and-women-compete-athletically-heres-what-the-science-says\/\" title=\"Can Men And Women Compete Athletically? Here\u2019s What The Science Says.\">female cadet<\/a> to graduate. The event marks \u2063the celebration of &#8220;25 years of female cadet graduates,&#8221;\u200c with 13% of the Corps of Cadets being\u200b women. Mace&#8217;s \u200djourney from a Band \u200dCompany member to a published author has\u2063 been instrumental in inspiring future <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/investigation-into-virginia-military-institute-racism-finds-no-conclusive-violations-but-still-demands-more-diversity\/\" title=\"Investigation Into Virginia Military Institute Racism Finds No Conclusive Violations, But Still Demands More Diversity\">female cadets<\/a>. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) will deliver the Citadel&#8217;s commencement address, 25 years\u2064 after being the first female cadet to graduate. The celebration of &#8220;25 years\u2062 of \u200dfemale cadet graduates&#8221; highlights \u200cher journey\u200d from cadet to author, inspiring \u200cfuture female\u2064 cadets as 13% of \u200bthe Corps of Cadets are women.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nancy-mace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Nancy Mace<\/a> (R-SC) will deliver the commencement address at the Citadel nearly 25 years after she became the first female <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/defense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>cadet<\/a> to graduate from the institution.<\/p>\n<p>Mace\u2019s commencement address will cap off the college\u2019s celebrations of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/today.citadel.edu\/the-citadel-celebrates-25-years-of-female-cadet-alumnae-featuring-panels-a-parade-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>25 years of female cadet graduates<\/a>,\u201d the school said. Approximately 13% of the Citadel\u2019s Corps of Cadets are women, with the university stating that the number of female cadets continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p>The South Carolina congresswoman will deliver the commencement address for the 2024 Corps of Cadets at 9 a.m. on Saturday. She became part of the Citadel as a Band Company member in 1996, graduating three years later with a degree in business administration and \u201csetting an example for the hundreds of female cadets who would earn their own Citadel diplomas in the following years,\u201d per the university.<\/p>\n<p>Mace also authored <em>In the Company of Men: A Woman at The Citadel, <\/em>a 2001 book that was published by Simon &#038; Schuster. Her father, Brig. Gen. James E. Mace, who was part of the class of 1963, is the most decorated living graduate of The Citadel, per the university.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>South Carolina state Rep. Nancy Mace, the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, smiles after being recognized by Vice President Mike Pence during a speech at the Citadel on Feb. 13, 2020, in Charleston, South Carolina. (AP Photo\/Meg Kinnard)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While several colleges are facing unrest from pro-Palestinian protests that have led some to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/2980183\/usc-cancels-commencement-ceremony-pro-palestinian-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>cancel their commencement ceremonies<\/a>, there have been no reports of The Citadel experiencing any related turmoil on campus, and it will proceed with its commencement as planned.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Southern California <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/2980183\/usc-cancels-commencement-ceremony-pro-palestinian-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>canceled its commencement ceremony<\/a> following the arrest of nearly 100 people during a pro-Palestinian protest on campus. The university said that due to putting new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">safety measures<\/a> in place in response to the demonstrations, the ceremony, which traditionally brings around 65,000 students and guests to the campus, would not take place.<\/p>\n<p>The university canceled Asna Tabassum\u2019s valedictorian speech the week before, citing a potential campus safety risk if she spoke. Pro-Israel USC student groups had flagged Tabassum, accusing her views of being antisemitic. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like many lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, Mace has condemned the pro-Palestinian protests as being \u201cnot what America stands for\u201d and dared demonstrators to go to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I would like to see, if these terrorist-loving kids and students hate our country so much, they should take their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-bankrolls-group-accused-of-cooperating-with-palestinian-terrorists\/\" title=\"State Department funds group accused of 'collaborating' with Palestinian terrorists.\">terrorist flags<\/a>, they should go to Gaza in their crop tops and nose rings and see how long they would last, because Hamas would chop off their heads, throw them off the roof of a building, before they ever had the chance to tell them their pronouns,\u201d the congresswoman said on <em>Fox &#038; Friends First<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) will deliver the Citadel&#8217;s commencement address, marking 25 years since her historic graduation as the first female cadet. The event concludes the college&#8217;s tribute to &#8220;25 years of female cadet graduates.&#8221; 13% of the Citadel&#8217;s Corps of Cadets are women, reflecting progress in gender equality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":2236384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP20044800309759.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP20044800309759.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2236384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}