Classes set for Monday at Gallaudet

[Miss-Delectable]

White Rock Reviewer

Classes were scheduled to resume Monday at the nation‘s only liberal arts university for the deaf and hearing-impaired after more than 100 demonstrators were arrested in a protest over its incoming president.

Those opposed to Fernandes‘ presidency say she isn‘t open to different points of view and that the selection process did not reflect the student body‘s diversity.

Students continued to block the campus‘ main gate Saturday. A D.C. police spokeswoman said 133 students were arrested Friday night after ignoring university warnings not to block entrances to a school buildings.

Those arrested went limp and were carried to a police van. The team of officers making the arrests then repeated the process. After each arrest, another protester took the empty place on the blockade line.

The protesters want the presidential search process reopened and a promise that they will not face retaliation.

In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post on Saturday, Fernandes wrote that while American Sign Language is fundamental to the university, Gallaudet must work to include a broad spectrum of deaf people.

 

[Heath]

Good thing classes are getting back to normal ... there are better and more positive ways to go at it than this and I think this is not 1988 DPN.

 

[farewell65]

Good thing classes are getting back to normal ... there are better and more positive ways to go at it than this and I think this is not 1988 DPN.

Once university opened classes again and still many protestors fk class, their professors are excused if some professors are support protest... Some professors arent support pprotest and miss class, ZERO or 5 pts minus from their grades...

 

[Passivist]

In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post on Saturday, Fernandes wrote that while American Sign Language is fundamental to the university, Gallaudet must work to include a broad spectrum of deaf people.

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 ?