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WASHINGTON--Gallaudet University's board of trustees chose the dean of the school's college of arts and sciences to become the first deaf president in the 124-year history of the school for the hearing impaired...
...King Jordan, a popular campus figure, was chosen to replace Elisabeth Ann Zinser, a hearing woman, who resigned early Friday after protests from students seeking a deaf leader had virtually paralyzed Gallaudet's campus...
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...
Fenta, originally from Ethiopia, has used sign language to communicate ever since he attended Gallaudet College, a liberal arts school for the deaf in Washington D.C. Now in his second year at Harvard, he uses an interpreter, paid for by the University, in all of his classes...
...those at other colleges. At Teacher Beverly Bocaner's class on auditory and communication processes, almost all the T-shirted, blue-jeaned students pay close attention, but in the back of the room a few students "whisper" (in discreet sign language). Says Senior Math Major David Birnbaum: "At Gallaudet I can argue and discuss things. I'm really part of the class...