“Protests intensified yesterday at Gallaudet University in response to the selection of a new president, with hundreds of students staging a sit-in inside the main classroom building.
The protests began Thursday at about 10 p.m. when more than 200 students gathered in Hall Memorial Building after the administration would not comply with their requests to reopen the search process that concluded last spring with the hiring of President Jane K. Fernandes. The students set up human blockades and tents to block entrances and have been taking turns guarding the doors.” …[more]
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Posted on October 7th, 2006 by tayler
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