Meucci Invented Telephone, Not Bell!
BiblioMarket In response to my last post about Bell’s granddaughter Mabel passing away this week, a reader sent me an article from 2002 which points out that the United States Congress had recognized an Italian inventor with being the true inventor of the telephone, a feat he accomplished a full 16 years before Bell found fame [...]
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Vancouver Tent City Video Clip?
Canucks for FSSA Sorry for the long delay... but it is here!!! Vancouver Tent City Video Clip from last Sunday!!!! [link] Cheers to Vincent Chauvet for hosting Vancouver Tent City!!!
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Letter To BoT About Jordan
Mishka Zena Dear Gallaudet Board of Trustees, Due to Dr. Jordan?s ?careless? actions,  I am now asking you the Board of Trustees to preserve the reputation of Gallaudet University and terminate Dr. Jordan immediately. Dr Jordan no longer has any respect or courtesy of any students due to his words and actions ( as you may know that actions does speaks louder [...]
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Etymology of the ?Crab Theory?
DeafDC.com Some time ago I happened to discover an article on the history of the infamous “deaf crab theory” that supposedly runs rampant in the deaf community. I found this article, written by librarian Tom Harrington, no where other than the Gallaudet library’s website. In essence, the crab theory refers to the idea that you never [...]
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Who?s in charge?
Mishka Zena It has been fun watching the revolution from the sidelines and even including my own idiotic ideas, but.... What are the next steps? Who makes the decisions? Who sets the goals? I am trying to understand what is going to happen to Gallaudet.  I am not certain that the future will be clear for years. Indeed, appointing an interim president is probably [...]
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Tent City - Hawaii to Celebrate Sunday
Kalalau's Korner We made it! Tent City - Hawai'i is on the GUFSSA map!On Sunday we will celebrate the existence of Tent City ? Hawai?i on Kanaha Beach. It is a pot luck party starting at 12 noon till the sunset. We will have a Deaf guest from the state of Ohio who knows the Board of Trustees Interim Chair Brenda Jo Brueggemann. Our guest who prefers to be called Janine used to work [...]
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Jordan to Campus Community?Nov. 2, 2006
Mishka Zena From: “President” To: President@gallaudet.edu Subject: Message to the Campus Community Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 18:50:12 -0500 Dear Students, Faculty, Staff, and Teachers: I don’t have to tell you that the past months of intense discord have taken their toll on our community. Certainly the impact of what we have been through [...]
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Stop the Insanity- Unity For All!
via link submit This video was made two weeks ago, but an unexpected circumstances prevented it from being uploaded. Even through this is dated, we felt it was still important to share our perspective as it was two weeks ago. This is a result of a teamwork composed of four deaf individuals with differing perspectives of the protest...
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Accountability?
RidorLIVE Last night at a local bar with a large number of Deaf individuals, I was in awe of one Deaf person blasting the other Deaf person because he was preying on young Deaf women repeatedly all throughout the night. Yes, it was ugly scenario but someone else had to stop him from doing that [...]
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More On Leave JKF Alone
Mishka Zena Sweeping Jane Fernandes under the rug will result in a large lump that everyone has to tiptoe around. We need to examine how this situation arose and establish guidelines so that it does not happen again. JKF was not an innocent party, and neither was the current president nor the Board of Trustees. They all came together [...]
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11/02/06 Memorandum to BoT from COSCGU
BiblioMarket Memorandum To: Gallaudet University Board of Trustees Subject: Open Letter to the Board of Trustees Date: Thursday, November 02, 2006Honorable Members of the Board of Trustees;In April of this very eventful year in the annals of this great university, we, the undersigned, requested with what we believed was a compelling argument that you should not have [...]
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DUNCE CAP AWARD GOES TO EDWARD K. KELLEY AND PARTNERS!
Show Me Deaf Community It is interesting read about the article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about search experts from Edward K. Kelley and Partners, an executive-search firm. That article was about what needs to be done. You can look it up in Chronicle of Higher Education. It is interesting how they offer no charge except to have expenses covered [...]
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CORRECTION: BELL WAS NEVER A TELEPHONE INVENTOR!
Show Me Deaf Community Antonio Meucci We need to set the record straight. According to recent article about Mabel Grosvenor's passing, there was a mention about her relations to AG Bell and it stressed that he was a famed telephone inventor. AG Bell was not an inventor as he took it from Meucci and claimed it as his own. On [...]
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Gallaudet University's Mission and Vision Statement
Central Floridians For FSSA [link] is Gallaudet University's Mission and Vision Statement. I urge you to read this and use such information when fighting for a cause. For instance, you will find that Gallaudet University aims to remove any, "barriers," check it out:"Gallaudet will value and nurture the wealth of cultural, linguistic, and ethnic diversity which [...]
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Message to Interpreters from Tim Rarus
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition On Behalf of FSSA, I want to express my deepest gratitude to the interpreters who spent countless hours of interpreting during the last few weeks.  Several of you volunteered your time, and several organizations lent interpreters at no charge.  What an incredible demonstration of commitment.All of us recognize that our ...
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Deafhood: Embrace Change, Embrace Growth
Kalalau's Korner In fact, one of the things I?ve always admired most about Deafhood is its embrace for change. It teaches us to look to the work we can do on ourselves?repair, maintain, build, grow?so we can better deal with change that is certain to come. Growth may mean that as Deaf people we must be the ones who to proactively instigate change that is long overdue. Gallaudet [...]
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Harkle - Find Captioned Web Video
via link submit Harkle searches the Internet for the latest closed captioned web video and audio. Search by keyword or check out Harkle Highlights. News, comedy, health, finance and more, Harkle is the place to find the web's largest source of closed captions you want to see. [...]
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Obit: Mabel Grosvenor, Granddaughter of telephone inventor...
BiblioMarket Mabel Grosvenor, a granddaughter of famed telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell and likely the last person who had personal memories of him, died Monday at Baddeck. She was 101. Born at Beinn Bhreagh, the Bells’ Cape Breton summer home, on July 28, 1905, she was the third child of Elsie Bell Grosvenor and Gilbert Grosvenor, [...]
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Revised Tent City World Map T shirt
Frederick United For FSSA Tent City World Map T shirt has been revised. Order it here.
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Article from Chronicle of Higher Education
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition From the newsroom of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, October 31, 2006 .....Search Experts Urge Gallaudet U. to Move Cautiously in Replacing Ousted President-Designate by BURTON BOLLAGCopyright © 2006 by The Chronicle of Higher EducationPeople with experience in presidential searches for higher-education institutions said on Monday that [...]
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Deafeye Vlog - Healing, GUAA, PSC and Shirt UPDATE!
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FSSA Press Release - November 2, 2006
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition The FSSA web site has been quiet the past few days as we rest and regroup ourselves for the continued work we have ahead of us.   Although Sunday night was celebratory, it was just the first step in reaching the orginal demand: To reopen the search process through a multicultural lens ...
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What is Audism? The Definition of Audism
Mishka Zena By Znuage  Nov 02 2006 11:36AM The word ‘audism’ first showed up in print back in 1992, written by Harlan Lane, however she credits the invention of the term to Tom Humphries’ unpublished 1977 doctoral dissertation. Despite the term being created in 1977, it did not start being used until Lane used it in her [...] [...]
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Respect for ASL at Gallaudet
Kalalau's Korner Gallaudet University exists in a world that desperately needs effective academic leaders to show us the way of higher learning. Gallaudet University is unique because it is where American Sign Language (ASL) is best used.There are so many arenas of scholarship in our university that cry for betterment, and we need the visions of insightful leaders to paint better [...]
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Voter Appreciates What This Candidate Isn?t Saying
BiblioMarket I came across this news with surprise, as I knew Emory Dively and his deaf sister Val, 25 years ago when I lived in Batavia, NY and Emory worked as a Chaplin at NTID. Dively is now running for political office in the Twin Cities. I no longer have contact with Emory, so I cannot [...]
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