A.G Bell Dorm Discussion
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!I'm still following the A.G. Bell Dorm name discussion that is happening on the NTID campus.I pulled up the following blog : [link] and looked at how successful the forum went.Now the next step will be the NTID alumnus to step up to the plate at the NTID 40th Reunion and explain THEIR FEELINGS of why A.G.Bell's name should be removed or oppose the rem...
Higher Education Audism Tue, Jun 10 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Lessons from the Gallaudet Protests: The power of the Media
Dr. DonG.'s Deafhood Discourses In this third installment of the Lessons from the Gallaudet protests series, I look at the importance of using media to help accomplish our purposes, and how media can be used against us.   Play Quicktime version
Media Higher Education Audism Sun, Jun 08 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Solidarity
Sojourner "we have not abandoned the gun, we have recognized the importance of the hammer to build. we must build educational facilities. we must build medical facilities. and we must keep our guns within reach to defend our right to build." -Bobby Seale- What is our “gun”? The very object that you guys name it as “militant.” Whatever that is to you, Militant, ok so be it. The ...
Higher Education Tech Culture Sat, Jun 07 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

vlog explaining the open forum at NTID re: AG Bell hallthe...
Orange Brown Coalition vlog explaining the open forum at NTID re: AG Bell hallthe overall forum was very positive - about 50/50 Deaf / Hearing composition - great number in attendance for summer time. Overwhelming number of comments as to why the name should be removed. Some expressions of concern re: process or impact of the decision.Loose translation of the vlog:Yesterday NTID hosted an...
Higher Education Audism Fri, Jun 06 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

UT President is Shutting Down My Audiologist's Office!
Laurie's Dance with Sound As an advocate for the Tennessee Council for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing, if anything affects the deaf and hard of hearing in East Tennessee, I stop whatever I am doing. Today is one of those days.I have received some disturbing news today and have already written a letter to the Governor of Tennessee, Phil Bredesen, regarding this issue. John D. Peterson, the pr...
Higher Education Thu, Jun 05 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Does Gallaudet Need a Buffer Zone?
Berke Outspoken Today's Washington Examiner (and Post and others) are reporting about a police effort to control crime in Trinidad, the neighborhood bordering Gallaudet. The maps being published show Gallaudet University as being next to Trinidad. When I looked at the map on page 5 of today's Examiner (link to web version), I saw that one of the murders had taken place practically ne...
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Bob's Vlog: European trip to the Czech Republic, England,...
Inside Gallaudet President Davila recently returned from a 10-day trip to Europe, which included visiting the Czech Republic, England, and Italy.
Higher Education Culture Thu, Jun 05 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

ALERT! The battle on the AG Bell dorm continues
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!Just got alerted that that there will be a open Forum on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 at 2pm in the CSD Student Development Center room 1300 (see the info on the web page: [link] )I would encourage any of the NTID alumni living in the Rochester, NY metro area to go to this meeting and report on it. The AG Bell dorm discussion is very important. But on...
Higher Education Audism Tue, Jun 03 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Bell dorm open forum June 4th and O and B email to NTID...
Orange Brown Coalition June 4th Wed at 2 pm in the CSD Student Development Center room 1300 - there will be an open forum to discuss the dorm named in AG Bell's honor------------Faculty and Staff have been sending reply all messages to the NTID community since the decision on the dorm name was originally announced. O & B sent out a reply all message yesterday:Greetings to members of ou...
Higher Education Audism Culture Tue, Jun 03 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Sara Collins, 2008 Gallaudet Valedictorian
Jamie Berke (About.com) The Green Bay Press-Gazette has a profile of Sara Collins, who was valedictorian at the 2008 Gallaudet University graduation. The writing is a bit condescending and includes the usual "fourth...
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Feeling Rah-Rah Today
Leaning on the Fence No one can deny that opportunities for the deaf and hard of hearing are more abundant today than at any point in the past. The number of deaf college students is measured in tens of thousands, which is a far cry from just 50 years ago, when the number of deaf individuals attending college was measured in mere hundreds. The reasons for this remarkable escalat...
Higher Education Sat, May 31 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Sowerby scholarship for Canadian students established
Inside Gallaudet Canadian students enrolled at Gallaudet now have another source of support to continue their educational goals at the University, thanks to The Robert Elder Sowerby Scholarship for Canadian Students Fund.
Higher Education Fri, May 30 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Crime wave hits in DC Metro for Deaf Residents Near...
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!I was up late at night when I got alerted to a fast breaking news story happening near the campus of Gallaudet University area.here's the Washington Post article: [link] to say, this hurts these students who are living off campus in these houses. Crime is up high. Sadly to say, will students move to the campus and dorms? I don't know.So, if they can...
Higher Education Culture Thu, May 29 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Last days to register for the Reunion!
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!There are just a few days left if people want to SAVE money on their registration for the NTID 40th Reunion! So I'm posting this link for DIRECT registration! https://apps.rit.edu/ntid/alumnireunion/Please, register for the reunion before JUNE 1st, 2008! After June 1st, 2008 it will GO UP HIGHER! You want to miss that HIGHER COST! Please REGISTER TO...
Higher Education Thu, May 29 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

EM Gallaudet’s full address at CAID re: AG Bell
People of the Eye Full text of an address by Gallaudet President, Dr. Edward M. Gallaudet, at the Convention of the American Instructors for the Deaf in 1895 in regards to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell extreme activism in promoting oral-only education and banning sign language and deaf teachers from the classroom. SOME INCIDENTS IN THE PROGRESS OF DEAF-MUTE EDUCATION IN [...]
Higher Education Culture Thu, May 29 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Sandra & Frank's Graduation Video
Frank_Sandra's Xanga Sandra & Frank's Graduation VideoMaster of Arts in Teaching ASL-English Bilingual Deaf EducationGallaudet University, Washington DCMay 16, 2008 March along with us during Gallaudet University's 139th Graduation Commencement (May 16, 2008 in Washington, D.C.). We both graduated with Master of Arts in Teaching: ASL/English Bilingual Deaf Education. Please bear...
Higher Education Tue, May 27 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

NTID and so on.
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!I'm still following the A.G. Bell Dorm controversy that's still going on in the following web page: [link] have been very helpful in detailing of what's happening on the Campus of RIT / NTID. Though, Alan Hurwitz has backed down and is holding off any major decision he makes, I believe he will personally set up discussions with the Alumnus when we all ...
Higher Education Culture Tue, May 27 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

TRAINING: New Ethiopian Sign Language & Deaf Culture...
We Can Do Press Release - Ethiopian Sign Language degree No. 1/08 The Department of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University, organized and conducted a one day consultative workshop on a Draft syllabus of a BA program in Ethiopian Sign Language (ESL) and Deaf Culture on March 14, 2008 in Addis Ababa. The purpose of the workshop is to evaluate the [...]
Higher Education Language Culture Mon, May 26 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Memorial Day 2008
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!Welcome to the unofficial start of Summer 2008. Summer is really a few weeks away. But some of us, even Gas companies can't help of calling out the unofficial start of Summer as of today.It's Memorial Day 2008. Vacation season starts. Usually it means that many people will jump into their cars and drive somewhere for a "vacation". But what it really m...
Higher Education Culture Mon, May 26 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Rumors About NTID/RIT In Wing To Take Over Gallaudet...
RLMDEAF  Unfounded rumors for months among handful of deaf people about the National Institute of Technology (NTID)/Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in the wing to take over Gallaudet University due to the growing financial difficulty and MSCHE accreditation status.    If the Gallaudet University do not meet up to the MSCHE's satisfaction by next November 2008. The U.S...
Higher Education Language Education Sat, May 24 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deaf Leadership or Doofus?
Kalalau's Korner I first became involved in a so-called Deaf leadership in 1970s. I went to the Eastern Conference of the Junior National Association of the Deaf in Portland, Maine, Youth Leadership Camp (YLC) in Pengilly, Minnesota, and two conventions of the National Association of the Deaf (1972 in Miami Beach and 1978 in Rochester). When I was elected Student Body Government (SBG)...
Higher Education Language Education Culture Sat, May 24 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

O and B position request for Bell dorm to be renamed
Orange Brown Coalition NOTE: this position statement was composed and approved of before the decision to reconsider was announced to the community. Rather than revise it based on this latest step, O & B has sent it forth to properly and formerly explain and document our discontent with the original decision and our rational for our request that the dorm be renamed. We are very grateful th...
Higher Education Audism Sat, May 24 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

O and B has been busy
Orange Brown Coalition O & B Coalition would like to thank everyone who has communicated their thoughts on this issue in a peaceful and constructive way.We want to make it clear that we will not tolerate any defamation or slandering of individuals in our website. If people can not keep the discussion focused on the issue at hand: SHOULD RIT BE HONORING AG BELL WITH A DORM NAMED AFTER HIM?a...
Higher Education Sat, May 24 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Reconsideration of AGBell Name
Orange Brown Coalition On 5/23/08 10:00 PM, "Alan Hurwitz" wrote:Colleagues and Students: As we move into the open forum regarding the AGBell name on our dormitory (June 4, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. CSD Student Development Center, room 1300), and the additional open discussions planned for later dates on this issue, I want to share my thinking regarding the name. As you know from my previous c...
Higher Education Audism Culture Fri, May 23 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Volta Voice as Reader’s Disgusting magazine
The Rogue's blog You have a entitle your own opnions about Volta magazine. I am sort of disgusting about Volta magazine as I always called it Reader's Disgusting instead of “Reader's Digest”. I think Volta Voice need to stop because the Volta Voice is sort of brainwashing and misleading hearing people included parents, teachers and companies about their “...
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