9 AM: Update At The Frontlines
Jkf pulled through and several people ran after her car. They blocked
it and started signing, “resign, resign.” Eventually some students,
such as adam jarashow, went over anc convinced them to come back to the
line.
sent via the pager of Jennie, a protester on 6th St Gate
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this is way immature. You go college for education, not pick a president!! If you’re not happy about gallaudet president, then heck, we have worst president in history, such as Bush who should be taken out of office. Do that kind of job instead to do favor for the American people.
Honestly, chasing after fernandez car is CHILDISH. Go back to class, all of you protesters are wasting your time and money. There are ALOT of other things worse then Fernandez. Let her be president, when she makes her mistakes she ll make her own downfall. Gallaudet Studetns dont make ur own downfall and emabress ur selves.
Just to note Ryan Commerson and Latoya plummer are NOT students.
And how are you folks at comments #1,2,and 3 contributing constructively to this?
*yeesh*
I’m glad to see that there are some folks who are mindful of the importance of trying to restore some level of civility to this matter.
Since none of the Jane Fernandes supporters ever identify themselves (i.e. “guest” and “anonymous” above), I strongly feel it’s the same person over and over again, either a Fernandes staffer or family member or Fernandes herself. If you want to prove me wrong, simply identify yourselves … or are you too embarrassed to associate your real name with your support of this idiot woman?
I think there is more then one person that does support Fernanadez. I refuse to release my adentity due to privacy rights.
I have the right to be private as u have the right to bitch about how bad fernandez is. Take another look at what I said anyway. LET FERNANDEZ MAKE HER OWN DOWNFALL. dont do it for her. Take for exameple harvard and American both presidents led their own down falls. no where in my comment did I mention that you should nt protest. I said ” chasing after Fernandez care is CHILDISH ” . Why dont u use ur brain and figure out better protesting techniques, btw this is a university not a High school. Use what u learn in class RESEACH.
This whole protest is ludicrous! As an alumni of Galludett, I am very embarrased of this situation. My deaf son is an RIT/NTID alumni and had no problems with the students and faculty there regardless if they sign or not even if he was a student. RIT/NTID is all about diversity. RIT allows the deaf, hard of hearing, hearing and CODA worlds join together into ONE world and one community. RIT/NTID has better strategies to meet everyone’s needs They have staff and student interpreters available. Notetakers are also available. They even provide live captioning at events such as graduation. I find it very hard to believe that the current students at Galludet University are so foolish not to accept this kind of a diversity between the deaf, hard of hearing, hearing and CODA worlds. They need to learn to accept the diversity and bridge the gaps between the worlds to make it ONE world and ONE community. Students at Galludet Universy today are now making the deaf world look BAD!
Well Payne, I feel sorry for the lack of knowledge you have in “bridging the gaps”. You cannot FORCE people to accept whatever they have in front of them. That is called oppression and you are enabling that. Shame on you…
About chasing JF’s car. Will someone please tell me why she
is allowed on campus at all?? Then she has the nerve to park her vehicle in the president’s parking spot??????
I think Jane and all three(3) of her supporters should get in her car and leave and never be allowed back on campus!!!!!!! While you are at it-go escort IKJ off campus
as well. Shut down the prez house til further notice!
It’s Fernandes’ flunking of 4 A’s that are not acceptable in being a college/university president.
1. Arrogrance
2. Aloof
3. Attitude
4. Audism (can be any other name with similiar purpose or intent if it’s for any other college)
If it was RIT/NTID, you will see either the protest or immediate dismissal of the offending official.
It is the case of BoT refusing to acknowlege their big error of accepting on resume alone, ignoring the other half of the equation, that is, two C’s - communication and connection.
I’ve seen over the years the college presidents get dismissed a lot faster for flunking the A’s by Boards of Regents or by any other names across the USA, as well as seen some removed before they could take office once they flunk the same.
Gessh, Anonymous… You pay to come to Gally. Your money goes to I King & Jane Fernandes, instead of actually toward your instructors… For an example, IJK’s retirement party cost about $1.4M (and some says more than that) and that’s where your tuition money went… Anyway, the point here is that the IKJ Administration and JK did something with money, for an example, the $4M toward PPD or DPS and that money is gone and noone knows where it went. It was in JK’s hands (her responsiblity managing the money & program). And, Sorenson donated $5M toward new building and that building was supposed to start early in September. As of this minute, nothing has started. I wonder… wonder….if that $5M has been mis-spent through IJK and JK ?? Hmmm…
IJK owned 4 houses in the neighborhood, thanking to Gally’s money.
Think about it… in fact, the money management inside IJK and JK Administration is fishy. IJK knows he is retiring in avoidance of being busted for bad money management and rather JK to become our 9th President as she knows what is going on inside the administration. Once JK becomes president and since she says she has agenda to work on… She hasn’t given us all her agenda… I bet YOU, one of her agenda is to clean up the money management issue inside administration to make IJK and JK names shiny and good. Or another possible that IJK wants JK to be president is so she can run Gally and let the money management issue slide as time goes by while JK is a president. They are afraid that if another new president is appointed after JK resigns, they will find out about the bad money management during IJK and JK administration.
gotta jet
Now your statement about Ryan Commerson and Latoya not being a student. Who said they weren’t ?!?! THey haven’t been officially withdrew from Gallaudet University yet. The Registrar’s Office has been closed for days and days up til today. DUH…
You stated to let JK make her own downfall… I don’t think so… If you want JK to make her own downfall, she would end up retiring from Gally after making more money managed incorrectly and bring Gally towards possible bankruptcy and possible Gally become nothing but memory (Gally closes down).
Well, Tanya you have a lack of knowledge about diversity in our society. Shame on you!
No,”Cyberwolf”, shame on you. Tanya has it right. That’s why alot of Deaf graduates from Gallaudet (like myself) are supporting this protest.
I know,from frist hand experience, what type of person JKF is. She is as cold and inhuman as Jim Mcfadden states in his letter(www.gufssa.com). She has created a hostile working enviroment at Gallaudet. Those who work with her now will tell you that (off the record, becuase of fear of reprisals).
Couple good and bad points brought up here.
Why is JKF allowed on campus? She’s an administrator, and the president disignate. Like it or not, that’s the case until further notice.
Students come to college for an education. Disrupting that, while it was believed to be justified, violated the right to the education that the students paid for (in whatever form that payment came).
Students choose Gallaudet for the community. This is now fractured and factioned. Each group has their opinion of right and wrong and how they should move forward.
I would like to throw something out for consideration here. Some students, notably some protest leaders, claimed to withdraw from the university, or plan to. At this point, I believe their money is already forfeit, or mostly so, meaning they’ve contributed to the establishment against which they fight. The most interesting question here would be raised after withdrawal - as non-students would they be subject to removal and potential arrest for trespassing? I may be wrong, since I don’t have a full background in the law, but alumni are welcome on campuses, and by withdrawing, these students would be former students, and thus not alumni. I’d really like to know the legality of this, actually.
I think peoples should adopt a democratic behavior.