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It appear to me Ms Fernandez wants to address divsisions in our repective deaf/Deaf worlds, I think this is long overdue personally, and I'm not surprised the die-hards are trying to pervent this happening. There are the ASL activists and rights mongers AND people making a good living out of...

how mant set uptents, 20 isn't an overhwleming rubber stamp the Gally protest is rig Have you counted how many topics you have put, on what is, just ONE issue ? hardly 'proof' of non-bias and open reporting, this is to maintain focus on an illegal protest and one that is doing a lot of harm...

This is an typical example Ms Delectable of DIS-Information. The London 'protest' consisted of less than 20 peoplelasted a few hours, and Paddy Ladd had nil to do with the tent city, he just sent an e-mail of support, anyone can do that ! It's hardly 'deaf or global fury' ! Compared with the...

With due respect to Ms Delectable, aren't you in overkill mode re Gallaudet ? I've lost count at the flood of topics all centred around the Gallaudet thing, that's not only entirely biased toward the protestors, but has become (Sorry)very repetitive. This looks NOT like the protest is winning...

It's a sad and sorry protest all around. Deaf people will be the losers no matter if they win their way or not, it will just show that mob rule, and not democratic rule can win the day. AS far as I am concerned when the not deaf enough thing came out the rpotest was over, as deaf peoplke who...

I'm in total agreement. Once you bow to mob rule democracy is dead. They want to 'Unify' Gallaudet, so, they close classes down, demand they should hire and fire ? perhaps the BOT should demand students pay the wages and teach as well...... then watch them vanish ! Miss Delectable has flooded...

Here here for that..... now if she can educate these protestors to that view, Gallaudet may become relevant again. What is WRONG that protestors are opposing that viewpoint ?

I'm in agreement with that, deaf power and protest has brought us many advances, and given us great role models to follow, but a hard core seem determined to take us backwards not forwards, let's fess up, it's a power trip for them. Moderates by definition stay out of these things, but it just...

True I fear, they are saying, WE can't communicate effectively with hearing folks so we want someone the same, makes sense ? erm......not. Deaf need role models of successful people, not ones who would never make it in the scheme of things anyway, or worse do not WANT to make it iutside a deaf...

People expect from the deaf at Gallaudet, and now feel let down bythe chaos that is happening, especially the mainstream perceptions of it, which is almost unanimously that Gallaudet deaf are anti-hearing, and power mad. This reflects on the rest of deaf people, despite die hards at Gallaudet...

If you had a deaf president before Kng Jordan then Why wasn't ASL part of the Gallaudet set up,I thought that was the POINT of electing people like him ? Seems a lot of 'blame' is being attached for a system that has been there DURING a deaf presidents time there ! The witch hunt of Fernandez...

No, what Gallaudet really needs is to go back to the basics, and practice real democracy and what Gallaudet was founded on and set up to do. I think in this case deaf 'power' has clearly gone to some people's heads. Teachers teach, students presumably learn, if you allow this loony fringe to...

And they were doing so well.... UNTIL, the above interferes with the working of the said University, and affects students EDUCATION. In the UK NO student body has any right to elect STAFF, or interfere with the University's personell requirements, they don't pay the wages. The lock-outs...

If she's forced out, then all deaf lose...... the loony fringes will run other deaf people's education, mob rule. The glee they exhibit causing all this aggrevation should be seen for what it is, BULLYING.

I'm deaf but signing isn't my first language nor BSL in the UK, SE, and English is. The assumption seems some sop to political correctness, english may well be the second language of SOME deaf people, as is ASL the first language of some in America, but not, ALL. We're rather fed up of reading...

Perhaps JFK is trying to downplay the issues to take the steam out of the disruption. Any Uni head worth their wage would have marched the loony fringe out of the gate and put an end to it, but these activists are too savvy with rights for that, ignore 'em until they go away 'though, isn't...

This is a puzzle in the UK for some in the same area who waited only 6 months (?) maximum about a year. Something isn't quite right with the story.

Gallaudet continues to let world deaf down. I'm saddened by the relentless protests and arguments eminating from there. We had the not deaf enough thing, then the audism thing, are the students there to learn or not ? to enhance the deaf world ? or bang own drums ? I read Deaf In The City...

My apologies, just perhaps we feel strongly on the issue, back to trivia :D

The key obviously, and as at first stated, neither oral means nor sign-language in isolation are enough, to 'compete'/utilize' aspects of mainstream deaf need to, and want. We MUST take on those who advocate either one, or the other. The only exception being obviously those who cannot, who are...