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From: mikey.tomita
To: KAL1952
Subject: read this from Billy Kekua
an open letter to JK
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:28:34 -0700
(PDT)19 October 2006 An Open Letter to Dr. Jane Kelleher Fernandes
Dr. Fernandes-
With a grave trepidation for me as a Native Hawaiian to write, but I decided to come in the light and offer you my request. I ask of you to explore in your heart and find a piece of aloha that may guide you and decide what is best for Gallaudet and not only but worldwide as well. I am aware of your accomplishments in Hawai`i such as you established the successful Interpreter Training Program at Kapi`olani Community College, and prevented the Statewide Center for Students with Hearing and Visual Impairments from the possibility of closure.
However I have my reservations for Board of Trustees' appointment of you as the next president because of the fear that you will bring many disastrous results to the university. Your leadership is in the question that I do not want to experience again when I was a high school student under your administration at the Deaf school in Hawai`i and as an undergraduate student at Gallaudet.
Dr. Fernandes, you served as the administrator of Statewide Center for Students with Hearing and Visual Impairments (now known as Hawai`i Center for the Deaf and the Blind) for six years, and your wealth of experiences should have prompted you to be a better leader when you assumed the position of Vice-President at the Clerc Center. But the evidences of your poor leadership at the Clerc Center for first 5 years and as the Provost for last six years were wholly unacceptable.
You had seventeen years to prove yourself that you could have been an effective leader. But to my eyes it is such unfortunate that I regret that you lost the opportunities to gain my support. Again, I would like you to please heed the request and find a piece of aloha within yourself, and sacrifice for the sake of Gallaudet University's future.
Thank you.
William-Kalani C. Kekua Graduate Student
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006
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2 comments:
Aloha Carl,
Thank you for developing this quite informative website/blogspot here.
I've read up on some of the protests that is raging at GU this month.
I have a serious question: How does JKF approach those people with Usher Syndrome? I heard that she ignores them and thus creating a major disquiet among GU student body and outside.
I am Linda Annala, Class of 1970. Our paths have crossed over the years especially when there was an AADB convention in town. Grins.
Seriously, we the Usher Syndrome community, have been neglected, ignored, maligned and whatever. I won't be surprised if this "Minority Report" you mention in your blog has something to do with US people!
Thank you again for such informative website; please assist all of us GUFSSA to better appreciate our future. This is definitely a turning point WE ALL NEED today! Out with I.King Jordan and now JKF. We need real significant leadership, development and equality among our own kind, though it could be just pure DEAF or having a condtion with eye problem thrown in the works as a monkey wrench... this kinda messes some of US up sometimes.
Lindaof70
Aloha, yes, I used to be very much involved with Deaf-Blind people, mostly interpreting.
"A minority report is a committee report (See Committee Report) written by at least two committee members who are in the minority on the issue in question on a particular bill (NOT necessarily in the political minority party) for the purposes of officially stating their position on the issue." --Legislative Terms. If the BoT decided to sign a Minority Report, then it will start to investigate JKF's situation which can be costly and time-consuming. Everyone with whom JKF had crossed their paths would be contacted along with their attorneys should they file grievance with the Court. That's why JKF asked the BoT not to sign a Minority Report.
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