World & Nation
Gallaudet students and faculty say they aren’t moving until the new president resigns. Some say she’s a bad fit to lead the school for the deaf.
Oct. 13, 2006
About 50 students, faculty and alumni of Gallaudet University in Washington gathered at the gates to the school and waved signed urging “Deaf President Now,” hours before the board of trustees was expected to name a new school president.
March 7, 1988
California
Weeks after the protests have died down, a dormitory window still proudly bears a message scrawled in large painted letters: “Dear God, I want a deaf prez!”
May 4, 1988
More than 500 angry students blocked entrances to Gallaudet University, the nation’s only liberal arts college for the deaf, and forced it to close Monday in a protest over the selection of an educator who is not deaf to be the institution’s president.
March 8, 1988
Elisabeth Ann Zinser has resigned her position as president of Gallaudet University, only days after her selection to lead the school for the deaf touched off a storm of protest from students who demanded a hearing-impaired president, it was announced early today.
March 11, 1988
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.
March 14, 1988
Violence: A gay leader at Gallaudet University was repeatedly struck on the head. Police say they have no evidence to suggest his death was a hate crime.
Sept. 30, 2000
The no-confidence vote involves whether she is ‘deaf enough,’ the newly chosen president says.
May 9, 2006
Seven months after being racked by student demonstrations, Gallaudet University on Friday officially installed I.
Oct. 22, 1988
Gallaudet University students boycotted classes to protest the hiring of a hearing woman as the school for the deaf’s next president.
March 9, 1988