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...south by car. The deaf Harvard, Wharton and Brookings rolled into one, it has produced generations of leaders, activists and entrepreneurs. Whether in classrooms where teachers lecture in sign language, on playing fields where athletes key into the vibrations of huge drums rather than audible signals or in the cafeteria where gossip and flirtation are no less hot for being silent--Gallaudet embodies a heady ideal: an oasis where the deaf person can shed the role of handicapped outsider and step into a cultural majority, where the tyranny of spoken speech is stripped away and, in the words of Provost...
...loose and one of the potential victims is trying to trace a call from the murderer and a phone company operator tells her, 'The call is coming from inside your house! Get out!'? That's the way it was here." A police detective informed a crowd at the cafeteria that "anyone here could be a suspect." The mental-health center was swamped, and two students withdrew from the university. Fernandes couldn't sleep. She had moved out of her home and into a house on campus. Every night she wandered the dorms until 1 a.m., talking to students, kicking...
Plenty of lobbyists kill time in the House cafeteria as they wait to see members of Congress. Like Riki Wilchins, they may peruse USA Today over egg salad. But few--O.K., none--have turned to a reporter between bites and said, "What pronoun will you use for me? I prefer s/he...
That something else could be less homogeneous than grunge was, considering today's cafeteria-style music culture. "Kids aren't necessarily identified as being a heavy-metal kid or a punk kid or something else," says MTV2 general manager David Cohn. "There's no better evidence of that than the rap-metal thing." Says Katona: "Kids today with the Internet and all the access they have to tons of music have a wider array of interests. But you know: once into rock, always into rock...
...Narayan was short in stature, and yet I remember one time we were in the cafeteria. He was in line in front of me carrying one of those thick plastic trays. He got three glasses of water. And then I noticed that he was holding all that weight just between his thumb and forefinger,” says Whitney Beales ’68, a fellow member...