Heads, Audism Wins. Tails, Levinson?s Head Rolls.
BiblioMarket I’m taking bets, and will be flipping a coin. Heads, Audism wins. Tails, Ken Levinson’s head rolls. Ken Levinson, longtime Gallaudet Board member, who is himself deaf, but does not use any sign language unless he -absolutely- has to, has been accused in the past of harboring elitist snobbery towards the signing community. He has looked [...]
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Swedish Deaf TV on Laurent
Marvin Miller (Laurent, SD) Perspektiv, a Swedish deaf TV program, broadcast their segment on Laurent yesterday. Last June, reporters Juli af Klintberg and Anders par Johannson flew to New York City then traveled to South Dakota to film many stories ranging from interviewing deaf survivors of 9/11 to deaf fashion designer to our vision of building world’s integrated and accessible [...]
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Gallaudet?s Academic Standards
DeafDC.com This morning’s Washington Post Metro top-half section focused on Gallaudet’s educational and enrollment standards in an article titled, “A Conflict on Integrity Surfaces: Gallaudet Is Roiled by Charges That Academic Standards Have Been Compromised“. Susan Kinzie and Mary Pat Flaherty investigate Gallaudet’s declining educational standards [...]
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Grades Changing By Administrators alleged: Washington Post
Mishka Zena The Washington Post A Conflict on Integrity Surfaces Gallaudet Is Roiled by Charges That Academic Standards Have Been Compromised By Mary Pat Flaherty and Susan Kinzie Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, November 9, 2006; B01As Gallaudet searches for its next president, the university is wrestling with divisions that go beyond the recent protests, with faculty [...]
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BoT Levinson?s Unacceptable Conduct Again
Mishka Zena Commentary: This is disturbing, especially after his comments recently to a group of highly educated professional deaf people in California.  Mr. Levinson’s comments reflect the audism toward the signing component of the deaf community and the lack of mutual respect to this group. Audism is very pervasive at Gallaudet and something we all must resolve.  Audism [...]
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Carl Dupree Died 16 Years Ago Today
Mishka Zena This was written two months ago, before the HMB lock down and the foiled DPS raid occurred. Since then DPS has assaulted and injured students at HMB. Later, students were assaulted and injured by DPSs along with other staff during the Brentwood Gate Fiasco.  So far,  there are allegedly over 30 documented assaults and injuries reported [...]
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IKJ didn?t want to be the next Benjamin Ladner?
The GU Private Investigator On October 26th,  the Washington Post published an article that read in part: “Gallaudet retained Dickstein Shapiro , a Washington-based law and lobbying firm, to “educate” lawmakers about the situation on campus and lobby on appropriations issues. “We want to make sure that people on the Hill understand the reality of what’s happening on [...]
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A Washington Post story.
The Deaf Sherlock One of the things that I don't need to comment today and just let the Washington Post story speak for itself! It is intresting to read! But with problems mounting on campus, what's next? Actually I don't want to. So, here's the article:========A conflict on Integrity SurfacesGallaudet Is Roiled [...]
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ASL Dragon's Boredom: The Philosophy of Deafhood
Kalalau's Korner Our time needs ASL Dragon more than ever because it will lead us into the world of intellectual freedom and language miracles.ASL Dragon presents philosophy that helps us transcend ordinary reality by creating a shift in perception that opens the mind to the value of language transformation in everyday Deaf life. This transformation is the real way we the Deaf think [...]
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reframing diversity
What's that you said? Note: "You" in this article is anyone who is part of a majority, dominant group. Hearies, for example; non-wheelchair users for another. White people. Men. And so on.Now and then I get asked to help justify or explain why diversity is a Good Thing. Now, understand, I am all for "diversity." But you know, sometimes it gets real old being the example, being the [...]
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My experience at a deaf school.
Ke5ter Before I start this post, I just want to make a little precaution that this is being written by a twenty-something guy who did not learn a single word till he was three years old, learned ASL as a first language and was stuck with a fifth or lower grade English level all the way [...] [...]
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Bombshell! Gally PR Department was cut completely ?out of...
The GU Private Investigator During the protests, it became a habit for many, including myself, to repeatedly direct our wrath and ire at the Gallaudet University Public Relations Department for consistently issuing press releases made up of gross distortions, half-truths, and outright lies. Saying that you work for the Gallaudet PR Department these days must be worse than admitting that [...]
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Bruggerman and John McCain/ 7th street gate.
The Deaf Sherlock yet you know this already has come out already. But worth reading for discussion:____Breaking News12:50 a.m. Eastern Time, Wednesday, November 8, 2006The Washington Post is reporting (as of approximately 11:00 pm, Tuesdayevening) that Gallaudet Board of Trustees chair Brenda Jo Brueggemannhas [...]
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More Gallaudet madness that happens!
The Deaf Sherlock Just when the shell shock of the "victory" on campus has just finally subsided.. my source sent me two pices of e-mail for me to use. Here's the first post:___This is from the googlegroups that a friend of mine is on. Here's the info:LaToya's letter to Parents United for GallaudetGood evening, our dearest [...]
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Levinson the Next BoT to Go?
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PUG's Open Letter to Gallaudet BoT - 11/8/06
Gallaudet Parents United Dear Gallaudet University Board of Trustees,We represent parents who have established ourselves as an organization called Parents United for Gallaudet (PUG) and in less than three weeks has grown to over 200 parents. The on-going events throughout the entire protest prompted the formation of PUG. Our initial concern was for the safety and emotional well-being of our [...]
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ASL Dragon's Joy
Kalalau's Korner ASL Dragon has the strange habit of seeming to enjoy the occasional mishaps that befalls the Deaf. If we come home with cuts and bruises from battling outside language, ASL Dragon would think ?GOOD.? One time in the darkest night of Friday the Thirteenth, 135 people were arrested for Deaf causes. ?WELL DONE,? ASL Dragon waved its claws.How can ASL Dragon be happy when [...]
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McCain's Words
Deaf Tea Time On CNN news, there is an article citing that Senator Mc Cain resigned over BoT's decision to terminate Fernandes, nothing less or more. Quote:"McCain described the board's decision as unfair in a letter to outgoing President I. King Jordan this week, she said."He said as much in a letter to a local constituent;"I voted for Fernandes because I considered her the [...]
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Hunter Thompson?s Life Now Open to Further Scrutiny
BiblioMarket Hunter Thompson’s life now open to further scrutiny Monday, November 06, 2006 L. Wayne Hicks - The Denver Business Journal Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy — at least the one his only child is concentrating on now — may be hundreds of boxes of papers. Juan Thompson, 42, faces the task of going through 800 or so boxes of letters, [...]
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WINDS OF CHANGE: GALLAUDET AND CAPITOL HILL
Show Me Deaf Community WINDS OF CHANGE Given the fact that the Democrats took the House and Senate, it was a CLEAR message to Bush and the Republican party about how angry the voters were. The weathervane on a top of any building are spinning fast. It is the winds of change! 40 years of Democrat rule showed how balanced and how stable the [...]
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Patricia Kunkle - Loyal to IKJ or to the BoT?
The GU Private Investigator There have been much speculation about how the President’s Office is the contact point for the Board of Trustees and about the particular role played by Patti Kunkle, Executive Assistant to IKJ and Board Liasion. Kunkle’s role was addressed in the administration’s “Facts and Myths” statement on May 5th: Myth:  Patricia Kunkle, who is [...]
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11.8.2006: Dr. Brueggemann resigned, McCain left the BoT
Roblog This news is already out (and I still cannot blog any news or latest info from work) but here is it:The chair of the Gallaudet University board of trustees resigned last night [Tuesday], the day after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) stepped down from the board because he disagreed with the decision to end the appointment of incoming president Jane K. Fernandes.In my [...]
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BoT Meeting Today
Mishka Zena 8 Nov 2006     Daily Digest Board of Trustees meeting gets underway today; three new members’ orientation completed yesterday The Board of Trustees’  fall 2006 meeting gets underway today. On Wednesday, the three newest members of the board–Cheryl Heppner, Pamela Lloyd-Ogoke, and Nancy Kelly-Jones–spent the day learning about the University [...]
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The GLAD News article about Deaf blogs
Jared Evans David (DJ) Kurs from The Glad News interviewed me and Tayler about Deaf BlogsI think the article was fitting because this is the final printed issue of The Glad News and it was the last article of the issue. It...
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Open Forum - Wednesday, November 8
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition What: An Open ForumAll concerns welcome. This first open forum is intended to start identifying concerns that we have as a community so that we may begin laying the groundwork for addressing those concerns. All members of the community are welcome.Who: All Members of the Gallaudet CommunityWhen: Wednesday, November 8th, ...
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