Gally’s Ban On Staff Interpreters Despicable, says a HUG student

Oh boy…

It’s been a couple of days.  “Where have you been?!” you ask (or not).  Thinking.  Thinking a lot.  This protest has brought out a lot of emotions in a lot of people, which is evident by the students who are currently sitting in HMB, refusing to leave until a change has been made.  At first I didn’t support what they were doing.  I’m still not sure I support it fully.  There are so many pros and cons to this.

One of the biggest cons, and the one that is upsetting me most, is that the people locking down HMB are forcing everyone on campus to be involved in the protest by cancelling classes.  The protest should be a choice, and this is not a choice.  I am paying a LOT of money to be at this school, and I have the right to my own education.

However, the actions of the adminstration are, well… Dispicable.  They’re banning interpreters from helping out, hosting lavish parties in the midst of a campus crisis, our campus police used physical force to break through a human chain.  What is this?  What is going on with my school?

SBG’s vice president and director of academic affairs have already resigned.  Their president and ethics and conduct directors are talking about withdrawing from the university.  Some reports claim as many as ten students have already left.  The university is in chaos.

The only thing making me feel even slightly better is that I’ve offered up my interpreting services.  Regardless of my personal opinions about the protestors’ current behavior, being unable to communicate with reporters is ridiculous.  The appropriate people know how to contact me, and I hope they will.

Unity for Gallaudet?  I hope so.  Sat Oct 7. 2006 ayala920’s Xanga Site

Reprinted with permission by the author