Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voyeurism the public tastes they cater to, but they do constantly broaden their standards of what is fit to print. The direction is mostly downhill, or toward more freedom, depending on your point of view. After all, women-Congressmen's girl friends, Presidents' bedmates-now gleefully sign book contracts to describe conduct that once would have earned them a scarlet A as a branded adulteress...
Whereas many schools for the deaf, especially in Europe, insist that their students learn to lip-read-theoretically, to make their handicap as unnoticeable as possible-Gallaudet favors a "total communications" approach. Signed English, or manual translation of the language, is used in classes as the teachers speak their lectures, while Ameslan, or American Sign Language, a grammatically different and faster sign language, is used by some teachers and is popular among the students out of class. Since many Gallaudet students enroll with vocabulary deficiencies, especially if they are deaf from birth, a preparatory year is added to the normal...
More than a fourth of the 186 teachers at Gallaudet are themselves deaf, and all must learn sign language if they want tenure. A full range of courses is available in the humanities, arts and sciences, and conversational courses in Spanish and French are particularly popular. These courses are taught by either phonic spelling or "cued" speech, a system of hand signals made close to the mouth...
...blinking lights, but otherwise classroom scenes are similar ,to 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...
When the Class of 1971 were freshmen in the fall of 1967, they still had to wear coats and ties to all meals and sign all female visitors in and out of their dormitories. By the time they graduated, the coat and tie and parietal regulations had been abolished, University Hall had been occupied and the University had been closed by a strike. And Harvard and Yale had played the spectacular 29-29 game...