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Citing financial difficulties, the linguistics department has scrapped both of its American Sign Language (ASL) courses, even though both drew high CUE ratings...
There is obviously interest in the former classes' topic: turnout has been enormous at a beginning ASL course offered by Phillips Brooks House (PBH), according to Tina Kim '96, chair of PBH's committee on deaf awareness...
...couple of students... mentioned that they had been waiting until junior or senior year to take the [Linguistics Department] ASL class and that they're really disappointed that it's not being offered anymore," she said...
Lisa Graustein '97, who enrolled in the Phillips Brooks House course, said she is disappointed with the lack of a curricular ASL course...
...their own, noticed that beyond the well-known gesture for "I love you," Whitestone made no use of American Sign Language, the primary idiom of over half the country's profoundly deaf citizens, whose number may reach 2 million. In fact, comments by the new queen on ASL and deaf pedagogy may make her controversial, in a community where linguistics and education are issues more fraught than those of religion, money or sex. Should the deaf emulate her triumphant plunge into the mainstream? Can they...