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Signers Club presents 'Deaf Story Night' - Entertainment
Students and community members gathered in the basement of the SUB on April 23 for a night of skits, stories and snacks.
The NIC Signers Club hosted a Deaf Story Night in place of their usual Game Night, which they began putting on earlier this semester.
There was a sense of silence walking down the stairs of the SUB. If it hadn't been for the last-minute billiard game being played before the event commenced, one might have figured they had canceled.
The cross-room conversation was abundant as about 40 students, family members and friends signed swiftly and precisely.
Kyle Pettis, president of the Signers Club, and Jessica Hunt, vice president, welcomed the audience. Coral Laugherty, who's been deaf since birth and is the president of the North Idaho Deaf Club, prepared to do the "ABC's" in American Sign Language.
"It went extremely well," Pettis said when asked about how he thought deaf story night went. "Stories are a big part of the deaf culture... everyone enjoyed it."
Although he isn't deaf, Pettis fell in love with sign language when he took the ASL class to meet the cultural diversity requirement for his A.A. degree.
Jacalyn Marosi, ASL instructor and adviser for the Signers Club, interpreted for the night. According to Marosi, ASL is the third most common language communicated in the United States.
Emma McLaughlin, 11, told the audience her life story through signing. She began with holding her blue-eyed baby sister in her blanket at the hospital. Later McLaughlin excitedly signed about her two birds, Cloud and River, and how they like to perch on her when they aren't caged. The 11-year-old has a cochlear implant in one ear. She does not have complete hearing loss, but her father is deaf so she has been communicating with ASL most of her life.
Throughout the night, stories were told ranging from first dates involving tequila to a deaf couple's Florida honeymoon gone wrong to an oddly hilarious joke involving a plane and a mountain that ended rather ironically.
The Signers Club works to bring the deaf and hearing communities together by educating students about the deaf way of life. With members ranging from those who can hear, those who are hard of hearing and those who cannot hear at all, the NIC Signers Club is a very diverse group.
Signers Club meets Fridays at Hastings bookstore for a Deaf Coffee Night, but they would like to put on more events such as the Deaf Story and Deaf Game Nights.
The next Signers Club meeting will be held at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Crescent Bay Room of the SUB.
For information about the Signers Club, contact Marosi at 769-7715.
Students and community members gathered in the basement of the SUB on April 23 for a night of skits, stories and snacks.
The NIC Signers Club hosted a Deaf Story Night in place of their usual Game Night, which they began putting on earlier this semester.
There was a sense of silence walking down the stairs of the SUB. If it hadn't been for the last-minute billiard game being played before the event commenced, one might have figured they had canceled.
The cross-room conversation was abundant as about 40 students, family members and friends signed swiftly and precisely.
Kyle Pettis, president of the Signers Club, and Jessica Hunt, vice president, welcomed the audience. Coral Laugherty, who's been deaf since birth and is the president of the North Idaho Deaf Club, prepared to do the "ABC's" in American Sign Language.
"It went extremely well," Pettis said when asked about how he thought deaf story night went. "Stories are a big part of the deaf culture... everyone enjoyed it."
Although he isn't deaf, Pettis fell in love with sign language when he took the ASL class to meet the cultural diversity requirement for his A.A. degree.
Jacalyn Marosi, ASL instructor and adviser for the Signers Club, interpreted for the night. According to Marosi, ASL is the third most common language communicated in the United States.
Emma McLaughlin, 11, told the audience her life story through signing. She began with holding her blue-eyed baby sister in her blanket at the hospital. Later McLaughlin excitedly signed about her two birds, Cloud and River, and how they like to perch on her when they aren't caged. The 11-year-old has a cochlear implant in one ear. She does not have complete hearing loss, but her father is deaf so she has been communicating with ASL most of her life.
Throughout the night, stories were told ranging from first dates involving tequila to a deaf couple's Florida honeymoon gone wrong to an oddly hilarious joke involving a plane and a mountain that ended rather ironically.
The Signers Club works to bring the deaf and hearing communities together by educating students about the deaf way of life. With members ranging from those who can hear, those who are hard of hearing and those who cannot hear at all, the NIC Signers Club is a very diverse group.
Signers Club meets Fridays at Hastings bookstore for a Deaf Coffee Night, but they would like to put on more events such as the Deaf Story and Deaf Game Nights.
The next Signers Club meeting will be held at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Crescent Bay Room of the SUB.
For information about the Signers Club, contact Marosi at 769-7715.