University for deaf persons: new pres. of U. not deaf enough
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How utterly ironic that only recently there was a small discussion about handicapped individuals, equal rights, and special treatment from my post about Carlos Mencia's "No Strings Attached" show.
Here, only a week or two later, there's news in the D.C. area of Faculty and Students of Gallaudet University, the nation's only liberal arts college {specifically} for the deaf, protesting the selection of their new University President for not being "deaf enough."
It strikes me that this is a repeat of an old story. Some time back, the same issue was in the news at the University, though last time the students got their way, and got their choice, I. King Jordan, who in 1988 became the first deaf president of Gallaudet. Will ignorance and discrimination among the students and faculty win this time? Who knows for sure.
I, for one, would like to believe that the university choose the best person for the job when they selected their new University President, even if that individual didn't learn sign language until late in their life. Perhaps the students and faculty in the current situation are not realizing that their new President is perhaps someone that should be more respected for learning to use their language and learning to communicate with deaf persons on their own terms. In some ways, perhaps she should be one considered handicapped because she was not born deaf and had to work to overcome her ability to hear in order to communicate with deaf persons using sign lanugage.
More news on the issue can be found at this link: New head of Gallaudet in 'deaf enough' clash
Here, only a week or two later, there's news in the D.C. area of Faculty and Students of Gallaudet University, the nation's only liberal arts college {specifically} for the deaf, protesting the selection of their new University President for not being "deaf enough."
It strikes me that this is a repeat of an old story. Some time back, the same issue was in the news at the University, though last time the students got their way, and got their choice, I. King Jordan, who in 1988 became the first deaf president of Gallaudet. Will ignorance and discrimination among the students and faculty win this time? Who knows for sure.
I, for one, would like to believe that the university choose the best person for the job when they selected their new University President, even if that individual didn't learn sign language until late in their life. Perhaps the students and faculty in the current situation are not realizing that their new President is perhaps someone that should be more respected for learning to use their language and learning to communicate with deaf persons on their own terms. In some ways, perhaps she should be one considered handicapped because she was not born deaf and had to work to overcome her ability to hear in order to communicate with deaf persons using sign lanugage.
More news on the issue can be found at this link: New head of Gallaudet in 'deaf enough' clash
