Press Release - October 29, 2006
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition Gallaudet Faculty Staff Student Alumni Coalition Holds Press Conference to Announce Victory Board of Trustees votes to terminate Jane Fernandes as next presidentWASHINGTON, DC ? Gallaudet students, faculty, staff, and alumni will be holding a press conference Monday morning to talk about their victory in convincing the Board of Trustees to ...
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How to Replace an Ousted President-Designate
BiblioMarket Tuesday, October 31, 2006 Search Experts Urge Gallaudet U. to Move Cautiously in Replacing Ousted President-Designate By BURTON BOLLAG from: Chronicle of Higher Education People with experience in presidential searches for higher-education institutions said on Monday that after the traumatic events of the last few weeks at Gallaudet University, culminating in the [...]
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PR Spokesperson Plays Deaf Card: FeedBack Needed!
Mishka Zena Calm at Gallaudet After months of protest over the selection of Jane K. Fernandes as president, students and faculty at Gallaudet University are getting back to the business of higher education ? with things somewhat resolved since the board on Sunday terminated her contract Sunday night. A mess of tents, banners and tables still decorated the [...]
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Nature of the Deaf: Our Own Nature
Kalalau's Korner Nature is God?s greatest teacher. ?Leinani MelvilleIn the Deaf community, like in any other society, words are very important: they are often seen as the distinguishing characteristic of nature of the Deaf?our own nature. Words are a very strong agent of change for our nature. They focus on developing the different implications to foster the force of directed [...]
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An Argument for Term Limits
Mishka Zena What I think we need to push for is term limits in all administrative Offices, from the BOT to the Deans.  This is a good idea because it opens up possibilities.  Imagine the following scenario... we installed term limits (terms = five years with the option for re-election, or ten years).  Five years later our [...]
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Mistake From Post-DPN BoT
Mishka Zena Arthur, You made a perfect analogy in comparing bad post-war policy and 1988 DPN. Two weeks ago, I mentioned in my posting that one of the biggest mistakes from the 1988 DPN was 51 percent of the BOT members must be deaf because it did not mean they must beGally alumni. Now we have learned this mistake [...]
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The Fight To Save Gallaudet: A Pyrrhic Victory?
DHH-CommUNITY The Greek King of Epirus, Pyrrhus (318-272 BC), who fought the Roman Empire and twice defeated the Romans, at Heraclea (280) and Asculum (279), but suffered such losses that he is quoted after the second battle in Plutarch’s ‘Lives’ as saying, “One more victory like this will be the end of me.” [...]
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Understanding the Protest - Part Two
DeafDC.com “The Magick of Gallaudet” To a Witch like myself, a big part of my spirituality is the practice of magick. True magick is the art of creating change. And change is something that makes a lot of people mighty uncomfortable. Change is challenging, which is perhaps why so many people shy away from it; it’s demanding, [...]
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Inspiration: An Act of Love
DeafDC.com By Elizabeth Stone One article I read a year ago in Ode magazine, written by and for optimistic intellectuals, claims that motivation is based on fear while inspiration is based on love. What I am going to say here is going to be touchy-feely. Yes, I’m going to get all mushy and corny here. It’s time. We need [...]
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Jane Fernandes A Martyr in Deaf Evolution
The Orange Deafie Blog Now we all know that Jane Fernandes has become a martyr in the evolutionary proccess of the deaf society. She worked to create a new deaf society thats free from the grips of the "Big Deaf Industry Complex". However the dependency confederates within the old deaf guard did their best to remove her from the presidency at Gallaudet University. Now they will pay a [...]
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Opression or Evolution
The Orange Deafie Blog While many people from the 'old deaf guards' a goup of dependency clans in the deaf community think what's happening to their cultural status is 'opression'. Actually It's evolution when the deaf society is evolving into a more interfaceable community. The resistance by the old deaf guards characterizes advancements in technology and biogenetics as oppression. [...]
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The Day We Found Out JK OUT.
Deaf Bison Network We were at the Field House when we received the news of JK’s termination so I had an opporunity to use my digital camera to use video on people’s reaction before my digital camera went die on me I’m sorry if the video looks too dark to you. (I wish there would be light [...]
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For The Next President, We Need
Mishka Zena Hi, In response to many discussions about who we want for the next president, I am sure we all want specific people, but we all agree on the same qualifications that we want. We want a person who can lead Gallaudet and the world. When DPN happened, more and more people learned about deaf people. More and [...]
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Gally Administration & Operations Manual Revisited
Kalalau's Korner Listen! Listen to this! Hey, stop celebration! Listen now!The Gallaudet University Administration & Operations Manual introduces that the administrative officers are the President, the Provost, and the Vice President for Administration and Finance. They are the top three at Gallaudet University. All other administrators are glorified gofers, acting as if they were [...]
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NYTimes: Protesters Press Broader Demands
Mishka Zena October 31, 2006 At University for Deaf, Protesters Press Broader Demands By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO [Photo caption:] Noah Beckman, president of student government at Gallaudet University in Washington, packed up belongings after campus protests ended. WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 - The day after protesters at Gallaudet University, the world’s premier university for the deaf, [...]
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The Language of Oppression
BiblioMarket by Chris Heuer I urge you all, please, to go and read Haig A. Bosmajian’s THE LANGUAGE OF OPPRESSION. [ED. NOTE: See book reviews of this title here and here.] Many of the chapters are replete with examples of arcane and contradictory laws that blatantly oppress and terrorize minorities... laws that were still on [...]
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Higher Education: The Real Issues at Gallaudet
Mishka Zena The Real Issues at Gallaudet By Lennard J. Davis As the smoke settles over the Gallaudet University campus, there?s still a lot of steam rising. Now that the Board of Trustees has decided to conduct a new search for a president of that institution, there are still heated emotions and fuming misunderstandings that surround this event that [...]
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BoT Heard Your Vote! Now: Vote Absentee in National Election
BiblioMarket This week we learned how powerful our individual vote can be. Each and every one of you VOTED with your hands and actions for better leadership, more diversity, and an end to the oppression of the Gallaudet Administration. While we have much more work to do to dismantle the Management by Intimidation and [...] [...]
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NYT: Signs of Revolution by Leah Hager Cohen
ASL Community Journal [link] Op-Ed Contributor Signs of Revolution By LEAH HAGER COHEN Published: October 31, 2006 Belmont, Mass. NEARLY a month of astonishingly passionate protest ended on Sunday when the Gallaudet University board voted to revoke the appointment of Dr. Jane Fernandes as the institution’s next [...]
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Fernandes Suicide Hoax
Mishka Zena This article is too suspicious: no name of the reporter, unknown reporting entity, significant mistakes. So I called the anne anrudel police station and was informed that they didn’t have anyone listed on the computer.    A friend called the coroner and was told that there is nobody with that name on the list: “all the suicides and suspicious [...]
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Emergency Alert via Wireless
Ed's Telecom Alert Check out this link Emergency Alert Via Wireless eyes open & thumbs up, Ed BossonRT Administrator [...]
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A video of Austin Spiritual Rally
AUSTIN for FSSA Howdy my Texas fellow and friends of all over the world,Click this link to view a video of the spirit rally last Sunday. It?s a pretty lengthy video, and you better get a soda and popcorn to enjoy this show. There is other video of Monday night celebration at the Austin Deaf Club that will be released [...]
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WP editorial: Gallaudet?s Loss
BiblioMarket Please note that this editorial is the opinion of the WASHINGTON POST EDITOR-in-CHIEF. In it, the chief AGAIN repeats the oft-told lie/PR Spin of Dr. Fernandes: “When students launched their protest against president-designate Fernandes in the spring, many of them stated the objection that she was “not deaf enough.” This editorial proves that [...]
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Got a Treat?
Riverside for FSSA Or was it a trick? Have a great Halloween in unity for Gallaudet. Everyone is jubilant but wonder about the future of Gallaudet after 28 days of protest. As many know, after serious discussion in an all-day meeting on Sunday, 10/29 the Board of Trustees (BoT) made a very difficult decision to terminate Dr. Jane K. [...]
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Response to ?It?s Half Over?
Mishka Zena I agree! We haven’t completed the job yet! The removal of Kelleher from the position is only a first step toward reforming Gallaudet  University. The Agents of Colonization and their Byzantine power structure of fear and intimidation must be uprooted next. Otherwise they will grow back on our heads blocking any further progress. The Board respectfully asked the [...]
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