There is no manual for dreams. Indeed.
Marvin Miller (Laurent, SD) An e-mail from a descendant of Laurent Clerc came to me early this week, and one phrase stood out: Marvin, I have been reading some of your recent news and some of the communities responses. I just wanted to say that it is good that you remain committed to your dream. I suppose what you are [...]
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A Post JKF Termination Poll
Mike McConnell Ok. We saw what people said in another poll before the termination about Dr. Jane K. Fernandes' position with the Deaf community. Let's take another look at a poll after Dr. Jane K. Fernandes' contract to be Gallaudet University's 1st deaf woman president who was terminated by the Board of Trustees a few days ago this Sunday.Is Dr. Jane K. Fernandes Culturally "D"eaf [...]
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Staff/Faculty Reprisals Still On
Mishka Zena  With this statement, anyone who contributed to the protest,  including those who offered verbal support, are subjected to reprisals.  This means all staff and faculty may be disciplined, including demotions and losses of job. From what I’ve heard and what Dr Bob Johnson stated in his letter, Jordan is well known for his severe retaliations. The protest [...]
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gatekeeping: the press
What's that you said? Note, I started this several days ago, before the BoT finally announced its decision to find a different president for Gallaudet.Joseph Rainmound has an excellent article explaining the process of "Gatekeeping" and how it applies to Gallaudet University. I want to take this concept a step further, and examine how gatekeeping is abetted and reinforced by multiple [...]
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Super Friday
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Gallaudets Victory -by Poppi
BiblioMarket Gallaudet’s Students: I would like to wholeheartedly salute you! Your bravery, determination and, above all character deserve admiration. Whether one likes it or not, what you have done forces respect even from your foes and detractors. What you have accomplished combine classicism–classical revolution– and modernism. Classicism, because you have [...]
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Video for Deaf Women Who Are Victims of Domestic Violence
Mishka Zena The Chicago Hearing Society has produced a half-hour video called “Deafening Silence” under a grant provided by the Office on Violence Against Women of the U.S. Department of Justice.  The video uses a dramatic portrayal to depict what often happens when women who are deaf suffer domestic violence.  A press release about the new video notes [...]
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LV Tent City: Big Success
Mishka Zena We proudly inform you that Las Vegas Tent City Rally last Saturday was successful. Approximately 100 people were in attendance in this rally. We raised funds at this event, netting almost $2000.  You may now enjoy this video about the event.  Thanks to Debbie Salo for making the video.  Here is a link of video [...]
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Drama at Gallaudet University
Kalalau's Korner Stay! There has been no curtain call. Not yet!"The play's the thing," said Hamlet, "wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king." "Catch" is indeed the word. For conscience moves swiftly or withdraws within itself. It has to be caught in words "the king" uses. The everyday man does not enjoy tarrying and parrying.In order not to feel pity for the Gallaudet [...]
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Gallaudet Documentary Interviews
Mishka Zena Gallaudet University Documentary: October 28-30, 2006 (16 Videos) [link] many many thanks for making time to interview tayler – Find Captioned Movies at www.Fomdi.com Only the best of Deaf Blogs - www.DeafRead.com From elizabeth:  Thanks, Tayler, for providing this valuable service for Gallaudet University and the Deaf [...]
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Letter from NBDA
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition Gallaudet Board of Trustees Gallaudet University 800 Florida Ave, NE Washington, DC 20002October 30, 2006Dear Trustee members,On behalf of the members of National Black Deaf Advocates, I wish heart felt gratitude to you for making a decision to move Gallaudet out of the recent stalemate. We realize it was an incredibly difficult decision. ...
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ATTITUDINAL BARRIERS AT WORK
Show Me Deaf Community For a long time, deaf employees suffer at the hands of employers big or small. Despite the new laws and advocacy, the ignorance still continues. It takes education and training to make the employers aware of what the deaf employees can do at work. There are some problems such as communications and accomodations. Those places [...]
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WHAT IS AUDISM?
Show Me Deaf Community What is audism? Audism is a behavior that hearing people think that deaf people cannot do anything. There is a tendency for hearing people to play god or be "white father". That is an oppressive attitude used by hearing people. It is very negative in many ways. It was started in 1880 in ways and means of [...]
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DEAF CULTURE 101 - Introduction
Show Me Deaf Community According to news, editorials, communications and any medium that brought up subjects about deaf and the protests at Gallaudet University. There is a lot of ignorance and attitudinal barriers showing in columns, newspapers, televisions, media and any mediums. It still shows how much ignorance is shown in each [...]
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Gallaudet?s Victory: A Personal Note To Students
Mishka Zena Gallaudet’s Students: I would like to whole heartedly salute you! Your bravery, determination and, above all character deserve admiration. Whether one likes it or not, what you have done forces respect even from your foes and detractors. What you have accomplished combine classicism–classical revolution– and modernism. Classicism, because you have [...]
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Newsweek Interviews Gallaudet Student Leader
DeafDC.com Newsweek interviewed Noah Beckman, SBG President at Gallaudet in an online exclusive (read it here). While I feel like I can’t possibly take any more talk about the protest, I like this interview. In Beckman’s responses, signs of lessons learned and hints of the path forward emerge. He says there are mistakes that he has made. [...]
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Parents United for Gallaudet (PUG) Update - Tami Hossler
Gallaudet Parents United Wilton McMillan and I have been very busy the last few days with following up on what is next for Gallaudet. We are working hard to see that our parent group (PUG) is involved with the future transitional process. We have several meetings set up with the lobbying/advocacy group and also with the FSSA Leadership Council. Monday night we were involved in a meeting [...]
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ASL in Matchsticks
DeafJoke.tv ASL (A to Z) in Matchsticks - How cool is that? Created by Unknown. (Click here to view bigger picture) Thanks Tayler! [...]
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the not so final post of Gallaudet.
The Deaf Sherlock As the night of Halloween has begun, I'm suire life on the Campus of Gallaudet is getting back to normal. The people identified by the J.A. are having to deal with various charges and those who are behind in academics are heading for LOA early. Such is the *WORST* damage to the students GPA. I would wish that all the Professors realize that WE, the students and [...]
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When Racism is worst than Audism at Gallaudet University
Mike McConnell As I said before, I believe the ?Audism? charges on the campus of Gallaudet University as being ?rampant? or even ?prevalent? are nothing more than shrill than fact. Are there examples of audism on campus? Sure. Rampant? Hardly. Considering that this IS Gallaudet University where students come in from the outside world full of audism (or very little depending where [...]
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Documentary featuring 16 videos of Gallaudet protest
DeafRead Human Editor Thanks for being patient. It took me a whole day to edit, compress, develop, and upload the documentary which summaries the events that took place on October 28 through October 30, 2006 including the very moment we learned of Fernandes’ termination. We have scenes from the Hyatt rally, Front Gate, Fieldhouse rally, Hotchkiss celebration, and several [...]
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Being Heard : Newsweek w/ Noah Beckman
BiblioMarket Gallaudet’s student protest leader discusses his group’s victory over the university’s board and how he’ll work to re-unite a divided campus. WEB EXCLUSIVE By Sarah Childress Newsweek Oct 31, 2006 It’s been a long summer and an even longer fall for Noah Beckman. He’s a senior and student body president at Gallaudet University, the [...]
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Can Deaf People Work in Captioning Industry?
Jamie Berke (About.com) An About visitor asked, "Can deaf and hard of hearing folks do closed captioning jobs, or do you need your hearing for this?" My answer was "You do have to...
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The Struggle Begins
BiblioMarket by Vladimir Petrovic My impression of the recent revocation of Jane Fernandes’s contract is that it is a step well-taken, and a decision well-made. Maybe the IrvingBoTs gave the wrong reasons for their decision, but let’s be grateful that the decision was made when it was made, not after an already untenable situation had deteriorated beyond [...]
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Gallaudet's Graduation Rate. How Bad Is It?
Berke Outspoken Gallaudet's low graduation rate has been frequently referred to, particularly in the Associated Press article about the Board's decision, with the phrase "persistently fewer than 50 percent of undergraduates get their diplomas."Wondering how bad Gallaudet's graduation rate is in comparison with other colleges, I did some research. What I found is that first, [...]
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