Tent City Philadelphia
Drolz Uncensored A copy of the press release for the October 18th Tent City Philadelphia event
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My Heart Bleeds for Gallaudet
Deaf Kitchen It was not a good feeling leaving campus at 4pm today. The euphoria of last night's faculty vote announcement was replaced today by the realization that JFK doesn't seem to be budging. In fact, things have gone from bad to worse with the homecoming furor and the appearance that no one seems to know what to do next. The students have spoken. The alumni have [...]
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Jane's Lies on the Radio today
Show Me Deaf Community "Fernandes: I have not considered resigning. I don't believe for one second that my resignation would help. I think that my resignation would hurt the university very badly, and I think that my resignation would result in years of instability in the governance of the university itself, and right now, we have a very strong and unified governance, and I need to be able [...]
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Let's Meet Gideon
Mosdeux
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Faculty's Results
Save Gallaudet University Faculty’s ResultsView the Video
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One Short Paragraphy Essay for Paul Kelly:
Kalalau's Korner One Short Paragraphy Essay for Paul Kelly:I Could Clearly See You at Gallaudet!Here I use the word see to mean an understanding that Paul Kelly needs a blow slap on the back of his head. With the money purse, he?s appropriating campus crisis in the wrong way. President I. King Jordan is loosing his leadership grasp with you hiding and holding. I could now make my [...]
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Accessibility - Making the Home Accessible
Jamie Berke (About.com) One thing about being deaf is that I am not always aware what questions hearing people might have about deafness. The e-mails I receive tell me what hearing people really...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Serenity_EM's Xanga ANNOUNCEMENT:- IN-DEPTH FACULTY MEETING AND 8 PM RALLY REPORT, FROM LAST NIGHT, TO COME AT 2 PM- LATEST UPDATES ON CRISIS AT GALLAUDET- LATEST NUMBERS ON EVERYTHING- AND MORE- EARL
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Faculty March in Protest
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition For immediate releaseGallaudet University, October 17, 2006, 6:15 pmAt 7:45 pm this evening, a group of concerned Gallaudet University faculty members will gather at the east entrance of the Student Academic Center (across the road from the Athletic Field House) to march on campus in protest of I King Jordan's ...
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CSUN-Nat?l Center On Deafness News
DHH-CommUNITY New NCOD Director Dr. Rosalyn Rosen is our newest appointed NCOD Director! We are excited to have a new director at the helm with so much experience. Please see the news release about her at [link] We are looking forward to working with her. Miss Deaf CSUN Miss Deaf CSUN Pageant Committee announced [...] [...]
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Pictures from Toronto Tent City!
Canucks for FSSA Many thanks to Tim Mallach (Class of 1990)!!! *Waving hands up in air* Page 1  NOTE: There are six pages of about 150 pictures.  Enjoy!
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Jackie Roth Writes to Us: Look and Consider
DHH-CommUNITY Hello friends, colleagues and members of the deaf community. I have been sitting on the sidelines, following the story of this protest. Up until now, I have remained silent but have made inquiries on both sides. I was very active and one of the first to respond to the DPN protest. I believed that when Zinser was selected [...]
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Publisher to Donate Book Profits to Gallaudet FSSA
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition ROCHESTER, NY (Oct. 13, 2006) ? Canal Street Press (www.canalstreetpress.com) announced today that it will donate $3 from every book sold to the Gallaudet FSSA (Faculty Staff Student Alumni) Coalition in support of the protest at Gallaudet University.Canal Street Press was established by deaf journalist Tom Willard to publish deaf-related ...
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IKJ-JKF: From Leadership Crisis To Leadership Desp...
Kalalau's Korner IKJ-JKF: From Leadership Crisis To Leadership DespairWe measure accomplishments by their products, as if what is done can tell us how it was to be done better. 18 years ago we told the world that Gallaudet University was indeed ready. Our protest was about our civil movement delineating American Deaf intellectual life since the 1817 establishment of First Deaf School [...]
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Homecoming Postponed
RidorLIVE I attended the 4 PM Press Conference in Fowler Hall before a packed crowd of 50 people in a small conference room. Yes, I. King Jordan announced that the Homecoming Weekend has been postponed.  As usual, he blamed the lack of entrances to enter the campus.  The truth is that in the past, we only had [...]
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Re: I King Jordan?s Statement
DeafRead GUEST BLOGGERS In his recent letter I.K. Jordan does not address WHY the protest is happening, the true underlying issues... only the behaviors during the protest. He says Jane Fernandez qualifies. The BOT says she qualifies. FSSA says she does not. We say qualifications alone don’t make a president.  President Bush and John Kerry had the qualifications [...]
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Open Letter by Michael A. Schwartz
DeafRead GUEST BLOGGERS Dear President Jordan: I was appalled to hear that you had ordered the arrests of the students protesting your administration’s handling of the presidential search process. I write to give expression to my dismay and disgust at your actions and words over the last few months. It is clear to me that your arrogance and disdain for [...]
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Ask Sorenson to review their partnership with GIS!
The GU Private Investigator For those of you who don’t know...Sorenson has a very lucrative partnership with Gallaudet Interpreting Services (GIS). Would you like to ask Sorenson to review its relationship with Gallaudet University considering what’s going on these days? I DID! Send them an email and ask them to issue a public statement to clarify Sorenson’s rationale  in [...]
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This just in from the President's Office
Scallion Stallion Tuesday, 3:30 PM--After being told the Faculty didn't agree with him, with protesters still refusing to open additional gates, Dr. Jordan threw his Legos on the ground and stomped one foot. "Fine, then I'll cancel Homecoming," he said. "...you poopy heads," he added. [...]
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ExpectMore.org
via link submit Gallaudet failed to meet its goals or showed declining performance in key areas, including the number of students who stay in school, graduate, and either pursue graduate degrees or find jobs upon graduation. For example, Gallaudet graduates who find employment commensurate with their education declined from 90% in 2001 to 69% in 2005. The Department of Education [...]
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Washington Post.com Radio Interview ?Fernandes Discuss...
Joey Baer Just this morning, Jane was interviewed on Washington Post.com Radio to discuss the protests. Thanks to Helen Quiroz for interpreting the radio interview and to Patrick Boudearult for making this happen! Share your thoughts! UNITY for GALLAUDET!Play Quicktime version [...]
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Important Quality in an University President (ASL Version)
Joey Baer Bridgetta Bourne-Firl explained why Jane lacked an important quality as University President way before she was chosen as 9th president. UNITY for GALLAUDET!  Play Quicktime version [...]
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BoT Member Mum on Fairness of Whole Presidential Selection...
Mishka Zena Presidential Selection process- -After being questioned by Chris Woodfill on whether Jane Fernandes is actually the best person to be the president of Gallaudet University, Dick admitted that he is of the opinion that Jane is not the best candidate that applied or are available out there.  However, he insists that she is the best of [...]
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Educationally Flawed
Banjo's World [...]
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Summary from October 16 Faculty Meeting
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition Results of Faculty meeting Oct 16 2006 (Note: there are 221 eligible voting faculty members at Gallaudet University; 168 are present at this meeting, representing 76% of eligible voting faculty)Motion A "The University Faculty moves that Faculty Governance. Through their official contacts with the Administration and the Board, examine and ...
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