Letter from a Parent of a former KDES student
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition The following is a short letter that I wrote regarding my son's experiences at KDES.  This letter went to Judy Berglund.  I met her the first year my son attended KDES.  Thank you.  -----------------------------------  Dear Judy,   It has been a long time since I have written you. I don't know how everyone is connected to ...
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Frederick Newspost
Frederick United For FSSA Frederick Tent City in Newspost again!
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A Few Ideas to End the Stalemate
DeafDC.com By Tom Willard I have been observing and writing about deaf issues for some 25 years and I would like to share a few ideas in regard to the Gallaudet University protest. Each of the last two presidential selection processes at Gallaudet University has brought chaos to Kendall Green. As a result, I think we need [...]
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12:30 PM Update
Mishka Zena Rally moved to 8 pm. Press conference at 645 following the faculty meeting -Jennie via pager
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Letter from a Faculty Member - A Must Read
Elisa Abenchuchan Dear Faculty colleagues, On Saturday, President Jordan appealed to the campus community to “...give Jane Fernandes the respect that is due her and the opportunity to bring us all together...” last night, in a statement from the Board of Trustees, Chair Dr. Brenda Jo Brueggemann wrote that Dr. Fernandes “...deserves to be given the chance to [...]
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Letter to I. King Jordan
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition ** High Priority **Dear President Jordan:I was appalled to hear that you had ordered the arrests of the students protesting your administration's handling of the presidential search process.  I write to give expression to my dismay and disgust at your actions and words over the last few months.It is clear ...
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Unity for Gallaudet Meeting Tonight!
Riverside for FSSA Time: 7:00 PM Where: Social Hall at CSDR, 3044 Horace Street, Riverside Who can come: EVERYone! The meeting agenda will be: Personal experiences of Gally Rally in DC; Tent City; CSDR Homecoming with Fremont supporters; WINGS for Gallaudet protesters; and fundraising/donations and many more! Be there!
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Human Tunnel!
Bay Area Perspective on Gally From Tim GoughMon, 16 Oct 2006 08:34:08Again- I cannot sleep! Wow- we re getting ready for human tunnel on 6th exit- all of us will hold posters asking teachers at gally and clerc center to do something! Media vans are coming in now! About 6 vans so far- ! About 20 people have not slept tonight- amongst them include colin, roberta (cleaning up at 430am!), mah, chase [...]
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Pic of Washington Post
Bay Area Perspective on Gally From Mary Ann Hencker Mac AulayDate: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:06:05page B2 quoted 'Gallaudet Board Says Protest Is Not Its Responsibilty'
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Sure feels like we're in some fantasy film, doesn't it??
Bay Area Perspective on Gally From Stacy GoughMon, 16 Oct 2006 8:34 amAnyone have tickets to emerald city??Jordan needs a brainJane needs a heartBOT needs courageAnd gallaudet university needs its home back
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BOT Stands Behind Their Choice, Jane Fernandes
Elisa Abenchuchan On behalf of the Gallaudet University Board of Trustees, I write to say that our foremost priority must be to reopen our campus so that Gallaudet University can move forward with its fundamental mission of education. Ninth President All Board members have received messages from people suggesting that we could end this apparent impasse by asking Dr. [...]
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Jordan?s Second Letter to the Campus Community
Elisa Abenchuchan October 15, 2006 Dear Members of the Campus Community, For those on campus who say they want to be heard, I assure you have been heard. You have been heard by me. You have been heard by the Board. We have heard you from the beginning of your protest. We have considered and discussed your points of [...]
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Irving Jordan?s Message to the Community the Day After the...
Elisa Abenchuchan October 14, 2006 Dear Members of the Campus Community, First, let me assure all of you that the campus is reopened and access to campus is available through the Sixth Street entrance. We are awaiting a report on the status of the Hall Memorial Building. Unfortunately, damage was done to the building during the protest. We are [...]
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A Tribute to Our Heroes (ASL Film by Patrick Boudreault)
Joey Baer Our Heroes!!Play Quicktime version [...]
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Dear Faculty colleagues,
Elisa Abenchuchan Dear Faculty colleagues, On Saturday, President Jordan appealed to the campus community to “...give Jane Fernandes the respect that is due her and the opportunity to bring us all together...” last night, in a statement from the Board of Trustees, Chair Dr. Brenda Jo Brueggemann wrote that Dr. Fernandes “...deserves to be given the chance to [...]
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Rally Today @ 12 PM
Elisa Abenchuchan At the front gate, as usual. A steady stream of blogs coming your way.
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Laurent, S.D. Wounded, but still alive and moving towards...
Marvin Miller (Laurent, SD) I just want to respond to one item from Minerva Shine [a poster on Gally-L e-mail discussion group] stating that, "laurent, sd is dead and marvin miller is more than half a million in debt." As Mark Twain said, "The reports of [our] death are greatly exaggerated." We are still here. We are [...]
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Gallaudet Must Do More To Help The Students
Mishka Zena According to Gally mental health counselors, many arrestees and others on campus are experiencing post traumatic stress syndrome and other mental health issues related to the conflict. Members of the Gally mental health clinic are working very hard to continue to provide services, but looks to me that they are already or on the verge of [...]
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Durr Responds to JKF?s article in the Washington Post
ASL Community Journal Editor’s note: This is the editorial Patricia Durr sent to the Washington Post in response to JKF’s opinion piece published last Saturday, October 14, 2006.  While I am not an alumni, student, faculty or staff member of Gallaudet, Gallaudet is a very sacred place to me.  For me as a hard of hearing person - it was also [...]
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Photos from Sunday
People of the Eye Since I wrote the previous post in the wee hours of the morning, for those of you who missed it in the overload of messages this AM, there are some very nice images up at my site from yesterday. I’ll be at the rally at noon, and will post those pictures this afternoon.
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BoT Must Start Doing Their Job Now!
Mishka Zena The BoT had been derelict for quite a while. They ignored the first no-confidence vote passed by the majority of the University Faculty. The letters of grievances by Gallaudet Faculty and Staff over the years were not responded by the BoT.   The comments by Gallaudet stakeholders regarding the presidential candidates were brushed away.  Nobody came to talk to [...]
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9 AM: Update At The Frontlines
Mishka Zena Jkf pulled through and several people ran after her car.  They blocked it and started signing, “resign, resign.”  Eventually some students, such as adam jarashow, went over anc convinced them to come back to the line. sent via the pager of Jennie, a protester on 6th St Gate
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Rough Summary Of CBS Coverage on Gallaudet Protest at 9:05...
Mishka Zena  sixth st ave open other gates closed faculty/staff/students entering through that 6th St. gate students holding up signs while letting the the cars in and chanting JK resign! JK resign! Students looking pretty good and very determined University faculty expected to pass four resultions this afternoon at four pm, signed a student. Fernandes claimed she hadsn’t [...]
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A Step Forward: Possible Guidelines For The Future
Mishka Zena We need to discuss the establishment of new guidelines so DPN and Unity for Gallaudet won’t be repeated. Both protests occurred due to a stalemate between President Appointee/BoT and the Gallaudet stakeholders.  We need to have a BoT who is responsive to the Gallaudet Community, but the BoT have not learned a lesson from 1988. So, [...] [...]
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October Theses from the Paddy Wagon
testing_the_truth Fernandes and Jordan has to go! Recent events showed the innate nature of hidden oppression perpetuated by the so-called inter-mediators toward the Deaf Community. They are the worst villains of our age. Who are these inter-mediators? They are those Deaf people, or people working with the Deaf, who anoint themselves as inter-mediators from the ?hearing world? toward [...]
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