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CHARGED. JOSEPH MESA JR., 20, freshman at Gallaudet University, a college for the deaf; with two counts of felony murder; in Washington. Mesa, a resident of Guam, dismayed and relieved a terror-stricken campus by admitting that robbery was his motive for killing two freshmen classmates in their dorms, one early this month with the victim's own knife. The other, weak with cerebral palsy, was bludgeoned to death last year. Mesa had no criminal record and had planned to devote his career to the deaf...
DIED. WILLIAM STOKOE JR., 80, Gallaudet University professor whose work led to recognition of American Sign Language as a true language and a fitting teaching tool for the deaf; in Chevy Chase...
...handful of Gallaudet College students in sign language declared it incomplete history as they had learned it and said they would join a demonstration planned for the dedication...
...became the core of an identity movement that still flourishes today. More than half a million ASL speakers -- a group sometimes plagued by passivity and disengagement -- reconceived themselves as members of a vibrant linguistic minority. Their most visible political statement was the 1988 protest by students at Washington's Gallaudet University that pressured the institution into hiring a deaf president. Culturally, activists began distinguishing between "deaf" (to describe the disability) and "Deaf" (to represent the language group...
...more endangered. Residential schools for the deaf tend to be more puritanical than those for the hearing, and sex education is less comprehensive. Some social scientists also believe that needle drug use is higher because of alienation and loneliness. Even excluding such theories, says Susan Karchmer of Gallaudet University, the world's only four-year liberal-arts school for the hard of hearing, "all the factors that would make deaf people in this country multiply susceptible to HIV are there...