Gallaudet
I just learned the blonde woman who left the conference was one of Tom Holcomb's daughters. She was obviously outraged.
Her inaction shows how out of touch she is with the student body of Gallaudet. She should at least acknowledge that some students are unhappy, extremely unhappy, with the choice. Read Ridor for his take on the situation.
Her incompetence is basically clear. She should not have been chosen. But we must know that she was chosen as a “safe” but thus far was incompetent and ineffective in her tenure as provost. For example, the decline of Gallaudet’s quality of education was a surprise to me. As a high-ranking official, along with I. King Jordan, why have they allowed the education of the Deaf to decline, and even so, they did not acknowledge it? Since the students have been waiting for the selection of a person who grew up with Deaf parents, the choice has left them betrayed.
Moreover, the Board of Trustees apparently chose her because she served longer. Serving longer may be important, but so is hiring new people with different ideas of running a university. Her selection merely continues the same path as I. King Jordan's reign.
Adam Stone has an interesting counter-perspective of Fernandes, with the usually explosive comments with—who else?—Ridor as well as some clear-headed commenters.
So, I humbly put myself in the protest. She may look pretty, but look into her eyes, into her soul and you will see a gruesome and conniving snake-demon. (Sorry, reading Ridor has that effect on me.) Still, I have a whiff of rebellion and protestations in me that I want to let out.
Unfortunately, the students were and have been fractured because they half-accept that the finalists were deaf, though not Deaf, but not non-white. Out of 1,600 students, only 200 have outright protested. The protest is still going on, but it is unlikely to reach the height of 1988, when the entire school was shut down after a hearing president was chosen instead of the other two deaf finalists. It may also be that this selection was made during finals week, when students are effectively rendered impotent, and the anger is not enough.
Her inaction shows how out of touch she is with the student body of Gallaudet. She should at least acknowledge that some students are unhappy, extremely unhappy, with the choice. Read Ridor for his take on the situation.
Her incompetence is basically clear. She should not have been chosen. But we must know that she was chosen as a “safe” but thus far was incompetent and ineffective in her tenure as provost. For example, the decline of Gallaudet’s quality of education was a surprise to me. As a high-ranking official, along with I. King Jordan, why have they allowed the education of the Deaf to decline, and even so, they did not acknowledge it? Since the students have been waiting for the selection of a person who grew up with Deaf parents, the choice has left them betrayed.
Moreover, the Board of Trustees apparently chose her because she served longer. Serving longer may be important, but so is hiring new people with different ideas of running a university. Her selection merely continues the same path as I. King Jordan's reign.
Adam Stone has an interesting counter-perspective of Fernandes, with the usually explosive comments with—who else?—Ridor as well as some clear-headed commenters.
So, I humbly put myself in the protest. She may look pretty, but look into her eyes, into her soul and you will see a gruesome and conniving snake-demon. (Sorry, reading Ridor has that effect on me.) Still, I have a whiff of rebellion and protestations in me that I want to let out.
Unfortunately, the students were and have been fractured because they half-accept that the finalists were deaf, though not Deaf, but not non-white. Out of 1,600 students, only 200 have outright protested. The protest is still going on, but it is unlikely to reach the height of 1988, when the entire school was shut down after a hearing president was chosen instead of the other two deaf finalists. It may also be that this selection was made during finals week, when students are effectively rendered impotent, and the anger is not enough.
posted by Alan at May 02, 2006
1 Comments:
I'm here at Gallaudet where the protest and I can vouch that it is not 200 like Adam Stone claimed -- it is waaaaaay more than that.
Come and visit!
R- at Gallaudet
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