6:30 PM Faculty March
Mishka Zena Faculty will march tonight at 630pm from the foster auditorium.
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Update on Student Health
Inside Gallaudet As you may know, several students are engaging in a hunger strike, as part of their continuing protest. We are doing everything in our power to ensure their safety and health.
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Photos of a Quiet Sunday Morning at the Main Entrance
Patty's Blog Sunday after the march at the main entrancePhotos of Newby delivering a check and a signature poster to FSSA on behalf of Philadelphia Tent City. Other photos include the hunger strike protesters' tent, the food service tent, the tent city, the Tower Clock and Gallaudet's statue with the tent city in the background.This is all the photos for now. Thank you for viewing [...]
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I Just Found this Picture, Ironic?
Deaf Bison Network COLD HARD FACT: BEFORE:NOW: Why not we have picture of present group with a long banner that says: “IKJ and JKF KILLED OUR DREAM.”
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Letter from Lyle Hinks
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition October 20, 2006To Whom It May Concern:In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson, upon realizing that he was not able to govern this great country of ours during the Viet Nam war, announced that he was not going to run for another term in spite of the great strides made by ...
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Let's pray for the hunger strikers' recovery
Dan McClintock Mishka recently posted this blog,Ambulances Called To Treat Hunger-Strike...Let's pray for their health and speedy recovery!- D.---------------------------------------------------------Note the change of the title at top from "Dan McClintock's New Cartoon Blogs" to "Deaf Cartoon Blogs." I would like to take a quick time to announce an opening here for submission of [...]
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Press Release - October 23, 2006
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition Gallaudet Community to Hold Candlelight Vigil and Press Conference Supporting Hunger Strikers, Protesting Failed Leadership at GallaudetProtests enter 20th consecutive dayWASHINGTON, DC ? Gallaudet students, faculty, staff, and alumni will be holding a candlelight vigil and press conference Monday, October 23 at 6:30 PM at the front gate to Gallaudet ...
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Hearing Aids - Improved Relationships
Jamie Berke (About.com) When the Better Hearing Institute offered me a guest article on how hearing aids can improve a couple's intimate love life, I jumped at it. This was an advantage of...
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Another IKJ Cartoon!
Dan McClintock This story inspired my idea for this cartoon! - D. ---------------------------------------------------- (from MishkaZena) Not In My Front Yard! Exclaimed Jordan For now, the name of the grassy area slipped Is that the name for that grassy area between College Hall and The President?s personal residence. My brain is still fried from the exciting day yesterday. Earlier [...]
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Moving to new server
DeafRead Human Editor Hello and good afternoon, I apologize for today’s downtime. All sites on my hosting server experienced a technical difficulty due to server maintenance. The affected sites include Fomdi, Elisawrites, Relay Review, DeafRead and others. To keep our sites online, I decided to move to another server. The move is pending the account setup. We may experience some [...]
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Reprisals Are Occurring Over & Over by Suzy Rosen Singleton
ASL Community Journal Unfortunately, folks, you got to consider ALL the below alleged reprisals confirmed because I personally have seen letters and/or I have personally confirmed the allegations with the affected individuals about the retaliatory actions taken by the Administration. Now I am trying to confirm the allegation that students who were not even arrested are getting letters [...]
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Letter from Sharon Crawford Hovinga
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition Open Letter to Jane Fernandes:Jane, as you know, I was initially strongly in support of your appointment as the next President of Gallaudet because I had the opportunity to work with you on committees within the deaf community in Iowa, where you are still are very much loved.I was struck ...
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Spinoza, Gallaudet and I
Kalalau's Korner I am a Spinoza guy, and I am also a Gallaudetian. Yes, I do crave such systems, and I act as if I know them. But they are impossible. Both Spinoza and Gallaudet are both fascinating as the philosophical and educational, respectively, claims of the past, I also realized that, although such words of theirs may inspire me to no end, their work to encompass human [...]
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Ambulances Called To Treat Hunger-Strike Protesters
Mishka Zena Protest At Gallaudet Enters Another Week Ambulances Called To Treat Hunger-Strike Protesters POSTED: 5:50 pm EDT October 22, 2006 UPDATED: 8:07 am EDT October 23, 2006 Washington — The blockade of most entrances at Gallaudet University is now in its 10th day as protesters continue to call for the resignation of incoming president Jane Fernandes. Some of the [...]
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More on Reprisals and Gallaudet-Suzy Rosen Singleton
Mishka Zena Unfortunately, folks, you got to consider ALL the below alleged reprisals confirmed because I personally have seen letters and/or I have personally confirmed the allegations with the affected individuals about the retaliatory actions taken by the Administration.  Now I am trying to confirm the allegation that students who were not even arrested are getting letters [...]
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Stop the online petitions!
Jared Evans Stop wasting your time and energy on these e-petitions and shift your focus to things that actually help push more for changes such as blogging and other forms of participation to raise awareness. It may feel good to add your...
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Petition has been Removed
DHH-CommUNITY Sponsors of the Declaration were asked by FSSA to halt the petition with the Declaration asking for the BOT to resolve the crisis. The NAD and GUAA and the rest have agreed along with to comply with this request. The FSSA intends to stick to its 2 demands. FSSA hasn’t had time to [...]
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373: Gallaudet In Trouble: whose fault?
Deaf in the City 373: Gallaudet In Trouble: whose fault?In the latest twist at the Gallaudet protest - reportedly Jordan sent out the following memo which tries to blame the protest for problems with accreditation for the University:October 22, 2006MEMORANDUMTO: Members of the Campus CommunityFR: I. King JordanRE: Middle States Commission on Higher EducationAs most of you know, we [...]
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Monday, October 23, 2006
jeffcarlson's Xanga TODAY I WONDER(Gallaudet Protest)Does Irving King Jordan have a stake in any of Alexander Graham Bell's companies? For years, I've heard that Jordan is a millionaire, not by his own means, but through outside investment like stock marketing and property owning. There's validation to my wonderment whether there is a relationship between the Gallaudet University and [...]
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Online subtitled video clips: I could be in the Wall...
Jared Evans A technology reporter from Wall Street Journal Online has contacted me about the state of captioning for online video clips. I think it'll be a very interesting article to read once it comes out!This is what I had to say...
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Letter to Washington Post
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition [link] Gallaudet Protests Fernandes Should Resign Because She's Out of Touch With the Campus and the Deaf CommunitySunday, October 22, 2006; B08As Gallaudet University President I. King Jordan and the board of trustees continue to insist on the appointment of Jane K. Fernandes as the [...]
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Anatomy of Gallaudet
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition Text version of the speech given by Matthew Lockhart at the U.S. Capitol on the morning of October 21:When you think about it, the human body is a real piece of work.  We have many parts with functions of their own.  They work together, yet independently to make the whole ...
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Has Jane K. Fernandes become a symbol of SCARE (Social...
DeafRead GUEST BLOGGERS There are waves of distrust and fear rushing through Gallaudet campus. Right now it is pointless to debate whether Jane K. Fernandes is a potential leader of Gallaudet since we all know the fact that the majority today does not agree with the selection of Fernandes. But the question is why? Selected documents (interviews, newspaper [...]
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Response to Clerc Center?s Letter
DeafRead GUEST BLOGGERS It’s well-written letters like these that garner more supporters. But if someone remembers how to distinguish a sentence based on opinion or fact, s/he will see that this particular letter from the Clerc Center is overtly opinionated. And I don’t know how anyone cannot see that. My plan with this letter [...]
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Two strikes by the Gallaudet Board of Trustees
DeafRead GUEST BLOGGERS I was a student at Gallaudet for a couple of years back in the early 80’s and it certainly held great memories for me. Naturally, I want the same for my two young deaf children and future generations, that is, if they choose to go to Gallaudet. I am very concerned about what is [...]
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