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Statement by Gallaudet President I. King Jordan
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Mercy Coogan
October 11, 2006 9:00 p.m.
Statement by Gallaudet President I. King Jordan
“Our paramount consideration has and continues to be the safety of our Gallaudet family. We have shown extraordinary restraint in the face of extreme provocation over the past several weeks. Dissenters who have repeatedly expressed fears for their safety are, in fact, the same people who have been intimidating and harassing anyone who disagrees with them and their demands.
“So far we have avoided confrontation. However, the dissenters keep escalating their outrageous behavior: vandalizing College Hall, taking over Hall Memorial Building keeping students and faculty from classes, labs and mid-term exams. And now they have shut down campus – a campus that is home to college, high school and elementary school students. They have broken many laws.
“Every step of the way, we have attempted to negotiate a peaceful resolution only to have the negotiators and their demands change whenever a solution seemed at hand. Even when we had a signed agreement with the SBG President, they backed out. This afternoon, while claiming to fear the Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers, they marched on the DPS building and issued an ultimatum that either the head of security leave campus or that all campus security must leave.
“Although the last thing we want is to have any one of our Gallaudet family arrested, the dissenters have lawyers advising them about how to respond to police who might arrest them. I urge the faculty, students and staff who have acted unlawfully and with complete disregard for their colleagues and their commitment to the University’s educational mission to stop and think about the serious consequences of what they are doing. Go back to your classes and go about your business, even if that business is lawful dissent. We will address the legitimate issues that are raised.
“Civility, integrity, and truth are victims today, held hostage as much as our beloved campus is. I have been asked why I haven’t used police to end the stand off. It is because I care about the safety of all of our students more than the protestors care about anything but getting their way. This illegal and unlawful behavior must stop. The faculty members who are instigating and manipulating the students have simply gone too far in pursuit of their own agendas. If there is a confrontation, the dissenters will have caused it. They must take full responsibility for the consequences of their actions, including possible suspension and arrest.”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Mercy Coogan
October 11, 2006 9:00 p.m.
Statement by Gallaudet President I. King Jordan
“Our paramount consideration has and continues to be the safety of our Gallaudet family. We have shown extraordinary restraint in the face of extreme provocation over the past several weeks. Dissenters who have repeatedly expressed fears for their safety are, in fact, the same people who have been intimidating and harassing anyone who disagrees with them and their demands.
“So far we have avoided confrontation. However, the dissenters keep escalating their outrageous behavior: vandalizing College Hall, taking over Hall Memorial Building keeping students and faculty from classes, labs and mid-term exams. And now they have shut down campus – a campus that is home to college, high school and elementary school students. They have broken many laws.
“Every step of the way, we have attempted to negotiate a peaceful resolution only to have the negotiators and their demands change whenever a solution seemed at hand. Even when we had a signed agreement with the SBG President, they backed out. This afternoon, while claiming to fear the Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers, they marched on the DPS building and issued an ultimatum that either the head of security leave campus or that all campus security must leave.
“Although the last thing we want is to have any one of our Gallaudet family arrested, the dissenters have lawyers advising them about how to respond to police who might arrest them. I urge the faculty, students and staff who have acted unlawfully and with complete disregard for their colleagues and their commitment to the University’s educational mission to stop and think about the serious consequences of what they are doing. Go back to your classes and go about your business, even if that business is lawful dissent. We will address the legitimate issues that are raised.
“Civility, integrity, and truth are victims today, held hostage as much as our beloved campus is. I have been asked why I haven’t used police to end the stand off. It is because I care about the safety of all of our students more than the protestors care about anything but getting their way. This illegal and unlawful behavior must stop. The faculty members who are instigating and manipulating the students have simply gone too far in pursuit of their own agendas. If there is a confrontation, the dissenters will have caused it. They must take full responsibility for the consequences of their actions, including possible suspension and arrest.”
posted by I Bleed Buff and Blue @ 3:23 AM
2 Comments:
At 10:14 AM,
OCDAC said…
This protest is, of course, the key event in the evolutionary proccess we're seeing in the deaf community.
The protesters are all about the old deaf guards who dont believe in the re-intergration of deaf people back into the hearing society.
The deaf communities are facing major evolutionary changes in the near future which enable them to mainstream and re-integrate back into the hearing society. They are cochlear implants and recently, stem cells, which are promising to be part of the final solutions to addressing deafness. The medical marvels have enabled deaf people to function almost like hearing people. This has created a new deaf society in the past decade and this new deaf society has been slowly taking over Gallaudet University operations.
The protests youre seeing is the old deaf guard's last stand against the changes in the future of deaf society, against the new deaf society taking over Gallaudet University.
Jane's leadership has the support of the new deaf society and is best one to lead the new deaf society which comprises 80 percent of the students at Gallaudet into the future.
The protesters are about the past deaf society, about the old deaf guards who have become the scourge of the deaf communities.
They have to give it up because they cant beat the evolutionary proccess the deaf society is facing.
Richard Roehm
Chief Executive Officer
Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center
At 2:33 AM,
OCDAC said…
Definition of SCOURGE :
scourge (skûrj) pronunciation
n.
1. A source of widespread dreadful affliction and devastation such as that caused by pestilence or war.
2. A means of inflicting severe suffering, vengeance, or punishment.
3. A whip used to inflict punishment.
tr.v., scourged, scourg·ing, scourg·es.
1. To afflict with severe or widespread suffering and devastation; ravage.
2. To chastise severely; excoriate.
3. To flog.
[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman escorge, from Old French escorgier, to whip, from Vulgar Latin *excorrigiāre : Latin ex-, intensive pref.; see ex– + Latin corrigia, thong (probably of Celtic origin).]
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Excellent examples of the scourge from the old deaf guards can be found in one of Tom Bertling's published books.
http://www.addall.com/author/2653032-1
Looking at this particular book;
http://www.addall.com/detail/0963781375.html
You can see stories of scourge casted upon prominent deaf leaders and inspirational deaf people by the old deaf guards.
Through their actions, they have made the American Sign Language into some sort of a weapon than a communication method.
Let's all pay good homage to deaf leaders who lives have been catastrophically altered after becoming victims of cyber-bullying, rumor attacks either via email, newsgroups, blogs, postings, websites, falsified restraining orders, vandalism, and through many other undue intimidating actions.
And work together at eliminating these sources of scourge within the deaf communities.
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