The Nation - News from March 7, 1988
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. The rally was the latest in a week of demonstrations aimed at pressuring the board to name a deaf president of Gallaudet, which is the only university for the deaf in the world. The board of trustees is considering three candidates, two of whom are deaf, for the post. Gallaudet has never had a deaf president in its 124-year history. The deaf candidates are Harney J. Corson, 44, superintendent of the Louisiana School for the Deaf in Baton Rouge, and I. King Jordan, 45, dean of Gallaudet’s College of ARts and Sciences. Elizabeth A. Zinser, vice chancellor at the University of North Carolina, is the third finalist.
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