Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--About 2500 Gallaudet University students and supporters claimed victory in a Capitol Hill rally yesterday after Elisabeth Ann Zinser resigned as president of their school for the deaf, but they vowed to continue their protests until their other demands...
Zinser, who is not deaf and does not know sign language, was named to the post last Sunday but announced her resignation early yesterday after protesters virtually halted all classes this week. Zinser said she had stepped down in response "to this extraordinary social movement of deaf people...
Harvard 4, Clarkson 2: The Knights will whisper "Beanpot" in the ears of the Crimson, but Harvard will play RPI-deaf...
...goals in five seconds can silence the mostphysical of opposing teams. But it also proved toRPI Coach Mike Addesa that creating penalties andsetting up four-on-four situations-a peculiar RPIstrategy--did not favor his squad at all. Toaccomplish this, his players would play deaf tothe whistle and wait for the officials to sendsome players...
...empathy for Gary Hart. I, like Gary Hart, had been victimized by a reporter out for a big scoop. Unfortunately, as a result of the reporter's hubristic hype and salacious sensationalism, I fear that the final club debate will degenerate into an even more misunderstood dialogue of the deaf...