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Posted by Ed Mullen on 06/04/07 20:03
Ed Seedhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:59:46 -0400, Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:
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>> Ed Seedhouse wrote:
>>> While the events happened much as you say, I believe your timing is a
>>> little out. Try a few *years*. The revolt at Gallaudet University
>>> demanding a deaf president occured in 1988, if Wikipedia is correct, and
>>> assuming that's the one you are talking about. That's a "few years" to
>>> old folks like me.
>>>
>>> There was a more recent one in 2006, but the issue was that the *deaf*
>>> president does not sign well enough.
>>>
>>> Other references seem to agree with Wikipedia. See for instance
>>> http://pr.gallaudet.edu/dpn/index3.html
>>>
>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194669,00.html
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> As I read that story it doesn't say she is not deaf.
>
To quote from the article (with emphasis added):
Fernandes, who was selected by the board of trustees last week and is
scheduled to take office next January, *was born deaf* but grew up
speaking and did not learn American Sign Language until she was 23. Sign
language is the preferred way of communicating at 1,900-student Gallaudet.
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