Thursday, October 26, 2006
Eating but still Starving…
After an hour with my hunger strike family, we have come to the conclusion that it’s best that I resign from the cause.
My reasons:
- it has now become apparent that my vision isn’t what it used to be before the hunger strike; it’s blurry and I have to strain [...]
October 25, 2006
Dear Board of Trustees
Re: Accountability to FSSA and Gallaudet Community or Dr Jane Kelleher Fernandes?
Given no-confidence votes by majority of faculty, staff, students, alumni and wider Deaf communities nationally and internationally and continued growing pressures to call upon Dr. Fernandes to resign, you as Board of Trustees have clearly failed to serve the [...]
Members of the Board of Trustees;
Dr. Irving K. Jordan
Dr. Jane K. Fernandes
October 20, 2006
As the Gallaudet University campus crisis escalates due to disagreement and no confidence in the leadership of President-Designate Dr. Jane K. Fernandes, the situation is getting worse and growing with the number of protesters each day Dr. Fernandes remains stubborn to the [...]
About my experience with the protest here at Gallaudet.. At first, let me say this, I was not part of it at all. I was neutral when it all began last May.. The information and the reason of protesting against JKF was not strong enough.. Also it happened beginning of May during the finals and [...]
October 19, 2006
Dear President and Board of Trustees:
We wish to state our position regarding the controversy at Gallaudet University on behalf of the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf (CCSD).
CCSD is a non-profit organization whose mandate is to represent the cultural interests of the Canadian Deaf community, preserving history and heritage resources, promoting visual [...]
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006
Dear Dr. I. King Jordan and the Board of Trustees,
The Canadian Association of the Deaf (CAD) is the national organization of Deaf Canadians, which includes several hundreds of past, present, and future Gallaudet University students. We are concerned and disappointed with the current crisis surrounding the selection of Jane Fernandes as [...]
October 9th, 2006 at 11:22 pm
Dear President Jordan,
Please refrain from sending e-mails to me concerning the ongoing situation on the Kendall Green campus at once because a lot of misinformation and lies have been fed to media by your Administration, especially the Office of Public Relations.
How dare you did this to Gallaudet Alumni as [...]
Open Letter to Alumni
October 9, 2006
Dear Alumni,
I want to take this opportunity to let you know what’s happening on campus and to ask your support. We all have an important role to play.
Last Friday, a group of dissenters occupied the Hall Memorial Building. Since then, Interim Provost Michael Moore, ‘68, Dean Carl Pramuk, ‘84, and [...]
Greetings fellow Canuck Gallaudet alumni and friends;
It has been a long night of no sleep and frequent re-loading of popular
Gallaudet Protest sites just wee hours before my flight departed for Washington,
D.C. at 6:55am. I got here bright and early just in time for the start of the week where usually busy students walk to and [...]
Fellow Canadian alumni and friends,
Canucks For FSSA is organizing to have a large Canadian flag signed by deaf Canadian alumni and friends across the country and have it sent to Washington, D.C. hopefully in time for Homecoming week to show our support in the cause down there.
Please get in touch with Megan or Christine at [...]
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