Congress is Listening
Elisa Abenchuchan October 12, 2006 I. King Jordan President Gallaudet University 800 Florida Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Dear President Jordan: Attached please find a letter from a significant number of my constituents from Fremont, California who are parents of students attending Gallaudet University. This letter was hand delivered to my Chief of Staff by Tom Holcomb who has [...]
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?Myths and Facts? by PR Office
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Canada?s Press Release
Elisa Abenchuchan For IMMEDIATE RELEASE   –   October 13, 2006 Canadian Gallaudet Alumnus Hosts Toronto Tent City to support the demands of Faculty, Students, Staff and Alumni of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. On Sunday October 15, 2006 at 12.00pm at Riverdale Park on Broadview & Gerrard Ave East, over hundreds of Canadian Gallaudet Alumni students stage a [...]
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letter from staff member
Elisa Abenchuchan This whole thing is so sad - it’s really tearing the Gallaudet community apart and the administration are making it WORSE with their actions, lack of respect and lying through their teeth. I have had many negative experiences with the administration at Gally. Many times, I have seen IKJ lie outright to BOT about gally statistics in [...]
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Et tu, Rex Jordan?
Elisa Abenchuchan Dr. Irving King Jordan — This is a name that I revered when I was in high school. I shall never forget the day I first met him in person. It was during Academic Bowl in 1997 and I saw this man - the legend, the hero. I ran up to him and asked if [...]
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More Help From the Bay Area
Elisa Abenchuchan Hi, I’m thrilled to share a wonderful news with you all. Nora Yates from the Bay Area will be arriving in D.C. later today with the $1,350 we fundraised from the Bay Area Deaf Community. All my warmest thanks to Melinda Harrison, Rita Ribera, Jenny Cantrell, and Nora Yates who worked with me to ensure we collected [...]
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Links from the West
Elisa Abenchuchan From Sacramento, California: www.xanga.com/pearlydare www.americanriverdeafclub.org  From Seattle, Washington: [link] From New Mexico: nmforfssa@blogspot.com  (They will have a rally today @ 12:30) From San Franscico, California: Gabe’s_Blog (This has some very cool [...]
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Tent City in New Mexico
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition Click on the following link for pictures: New Mexico Tent City [...]
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Bridgetta Bourne-Firl: Inspirational Message to Protesters
Mishka Zena Students, Faculty, and Supporters: You have gone far in your efforts. You have successfully caught the media’s support, in spite of the university’s public relations machine’s efforts to diverge attention from the real issue to “vandalism, not deaf enough, and held hostage.” Interviews with the students and the faculty have been [...]
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?Bubba video? now seen by the world through Yahoo News
Mishka Zena The famous video taken by protesters showing the DPS officer named “Bubba” manhandling, shoving and roughing up the protesters is now being made available to the world through the Yahoo News service: [link]
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University Faculty Officers? Letter To BoT
Mishka Zena October 11, 2006 Dear Dr. Brueggemann: Gallaudet University is in crisis. This crisis has increased the community? awareness of the complex and serious issues that face us. As the result of the events of recent days, the University Faculty officers, with the support of their Advisory Committee, have asked Dr. Fernandes to resign immediately as president designate. [...]
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Would You Want a Leader Who?s Not One of You?
Daniel Greene As an American Sign Language interpreter, I think I have a perspective of American Deaf culture and the issues at Gallaudet University that few hearing people can grasp — and, unfortunately, the messages the average hearing person gleans from the hearing media don’t seem to be doing much to illuminate the situation. I would like [...]
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Letter from Joshua Weinstein ('02, '05)
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition Dear President I. King Jordan,I am writing in the light of recent events unfolding at Gallaudet University. I, as an alumnus, was a proud supporter of your presidency until now. I am writing in response to the administration and your unethical use of tactics with university students. You have created ...
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To the Campus Community: Myths & Facts
Inside Gallaudet There have been rumors, allegations and false statements made by the dissenters and spread on the internet, through the media, and around campus.
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Tent City in Wisconsin
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition The Deaf community in Wisconsin held a Tent City event yesterday (October 12, 2006) with Richard Kinney, a member of the Gallaudet University Board of Trustees, in attendance.  You can find more information at the following link: Wisconsin Tent City [...]
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Another Letter from Parents
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition As DC Metro Police Department surrounded Gallaudet University today, in squad cars, vans, horse- mounted police, undercover policemen and private security guards, parents of Gallaudet University students pleaded with the I King Jordan administration for the safety of their children.In a letter written by parents of students from Northern California ...
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Editorial in Washington Post
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition EDITORIALGallaudet University October 12, 2006 In a message to the campus community on Wednesday night, Gallaudet University President I. K Jordan stated that students were only interested in   ??getting their way.?. Jordan went on to claim that ??faculty members who are instigating and manipulating the students have simply gone too far in pursuit ...
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Letter from Australia
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition 12 October 2006Dr Brenda Jo Brueggeman, Acting Chair Gallaudet Board of TrusteesCC:Dr.  I. King Jordan, President Gallaudet UniversityMs. Pamela Holmes, Chair Presidential Search CommitteeDavid Kohlasch, General Manager Kellogg Conference Hotel Gallaudet UniversityDear Dr. Brueggemann,We are writing to you as acting chair of the Gallaudet Board of Trustees in support [...]
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Letter from a Graduate Student at Duke University
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition Dear GUFSSA,I'm not Deaf, and I don't know much about Deaf politics, but I am a long-time student activist.  I'm sure you already know this, but I want to reinforce that your fight is not just for Gallaudet and it's not just for the Deaf community.  Those of us who ...
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Perspective from a Staff member
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition To write that yesterday was an emotional day at Gallaudet is so superficial that it cannot even begin to capture the depth of the feelings we are experiencing as a community.For most of the day, we found ourselves facing the very real possibility of arrest, which could lead to expulsion ...
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Design for Sign Contest
Jamie Berke (About.com) The revised website HearMyHands.org is holding a "Design for Sign" contest offering both deaf and hearing students ages 13-18 a chance to promote sign language/deaf awareness by designing a t-shirt....
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An Hoosier's First Experience
Indy Deaf For FSSA! When I approached the front entrance at 1am this morning with wide eyes, I experienced a case of goosebumps. I finally am here and seeing things for real. I have been reading and hungry for information from the Internet, which is so amazing. But it cannot compare with the feeling of seeing this in flesh.The front entrance was blocked and guarded by shivering [...]
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How You Can Fight Back
Mishka Zena I have blogged continually without a break since the protest broke out. I continued my work while I was in Florida, staying in a hotel and visiting my ailing mother. I gave up a lot of hours on this blog, keeping the deaf community informed. I am very grateful for having the opportunity to make some contribution to [...]
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Censorship On Gallaudet Internet?
Mishka Zena I hope it is a technical difficulty, not an intentional act of disruption, but a student wrote this: “Well last night when i sent that e-mail was the 1st time i have been able to use the internet in the dorms.. i dont know if they are blocking the internet or what... but by changing my address (to [...]
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More on the immoral and criminal hostage taking of...
The Gallaudet Protest: What you don't know Friday, October 13, 2006; A28UNHAPPY WITH Gallaudet University's choice of a new president, studentscontinued their blockade of the campus yesterday. Hundreds of students werebeing denied their college education. Elementary and high school studentsalso were locked out of their Kendall Green schools, which share the campus.Every lost day of school for them is [...]
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