The Nation - News from March 9, 1988
Gallaudet University students boycotted classes to protest the hiring of a hearing woman as the school for the deaf’s next president. The boycott at the Washington school marked a second day of protest over the hiring of Elisabeth Ann Zinser, an administrator with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro who prevailed over two deaf finalists. Students burned effigies of Zinser and board of trustees chairwoman Jane Bassett Spilman. Rep. David E. Bonior (D-Mich.), a Gallaudet board member, said he feared the controversy could hurt future federal funding of the school.
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