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...White House last week taught the city something new about protests. They marched in silence, communicating with one another in sign language, their faces and bodies contorted with frantic energy as they sought to convey the emotional content of their message. They were students from Washington's Gallaudet University, the nation's only liberal arts college for the deaf. Their message, in the words of Student Rebekah Hammer: "Prejudice is believing that hearing people have to take care of deaf people...
...hearing person was the cause of this silent but agitated campus protest, which soon mushroomed into a national debate over the civil rights of the deaf. Gallaudet's board of trustees had set the spark by ignoring months of intense pressure to choose a deaf person as the 124-year-old college's seventh president. Instead, the trustees chose Elisabeth Ann Zinser, 48, vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, who is not only sound of hearing but is also unable to communicate in sign language and has no experience in education...
Meanwhile, congressional investigators plan Tuesday to scrutinize Gallaudet's board of trustees and presidential selection process...
...Gallaudet, chartered by an act of Congress in 1864, receives 75 percent of its $76 million budget in federal funds...
...House panel, chaired by Rep. Major Owens (D-NY), has jurisdiction over Gallaudet's funding...