Who Are The Real Dissenters At Gallaudet?
Commentary: Recently Jordan had taken to call the students the dissenters. Was he correct in using this term?
No. The Gallaudet Community have spoken. The University Faculty Senate tendered in twice a no-confidence vote on Fernandes the last six years. It was not a minority of the faculty group who have asked for the resignation of Fernandes. The Student Congress passed a resolution rejecting the appointment of Fernandes. The Alumni have spoken, with perhaps fifteen tent cities sprouting all over the world and more to come as a gesture to support Unity for Gallaudet. Many Staff secretly supported the protest, but were too intimidated to speak out freely.
The students have repeatedly asked for an effective dialogue with Jordan, Fernandes and the Bot. So far, there had been none.
Who are the real dissenters?
Jordan, Fernandes, and the BoT.
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Amen!
Very true!! Jordan and Fernandes are the spinners of the web of lies. We are waiting for some brave Board members to come out, and tell the truth!
For the outside world it has been so hard to understand all the issues coming together on campus. People ask me what it’s all about and it’s very hard to explain. Here’s what I’ve decided to tell them:
Fernandes is catastrophically the wrong person at the wrong time. There were many warnings given. Why? In a nutshell: she smirks. She is arrogant and unfeeling. She epitomizes the patronizing, no-can-do attitude of the hearing culture that has long oppressed deaf people; not only deaf people, but any people who differ from the dominant mainstream culture. She was selected to be president of this university by a board impressed with her shiny credentials and academic accomplishments. But she walks across campus and does not speak to the “common” folk. She sits in meetings and smirks at all the poor slobs who just don’t get it. When she makes decisions that impacts peoples’ lives and they beg for reconsideration, she has no compassion. There is not a drop there in her cold heart. She finds a way to rationalize her position. It’s not about who’s deaf enough. It’s about who cares enough. Who acts like a leader who will not only care about people, but will inspire them to greater achievements. Instead, Fernandes leads by weilding power.
In most places in the world the campus would bow to the board’s choice, and live with it. Not being constrained by the burden of established society’s mores, young people can, and especially young deaf people, reject the Board’s selection. They ask why does it have to be this way? Why should we tolerate this?
On one hand there are the rules and professional practices of the institution that protect us from the chaos of mob rule. On the other are the expectations of bright young people looking for a better world. We await the outcome anxiously ..which side will prevail? And what will be the cost? I applaud the students who are willing to take these risks. Jane, if there’s any warmth at all in the ice queen’s heart, resign now.
MURDER OF MY DEAF HUSBAND AND BACK STABBING OF KING AND LINDA JORDAN BY DR. AMMONS
These days the world is watching Gallaudet and its ongoing students’ protest.
It is very shocking to see that one person – Dr. Donalda Ammons – chose to side with the protesters.
In 2005 Ammons was implicated with the heinous crime – the murder of my beloved deaf husband Felix Shlimovich in Russia.
Now, in 2006, Ammons acts as one of those who are opposing the choice of King Jordan’s favorite Jane Fernandes as the next Gallaudet President.
What a dangerous and unpredictable deaf woman Dr. Ammons is!
Before his murder, my husband vistied many Deaflympic Games and Gallaudet campus, and there, as he told me, he always saw how close and very fond Dr. Ammons was with King and Linda Jordan ( the Jordans many times attended the Deaflympics as fans ). I was also told that King gave to Ammons his full support for her election as the CISS President in 2005.
Now, I can not believe that Ammons is betraying King and Linda Jordan.
Please read my letter to the IOC President and see why I accuse Ammons of her role in murdering of my deaf husband on December 11, 2005.
Is Ammons a right person and role model to get involved with students, faculty and others in their protests against King Jordan and Jane Fernandes? Can the protesters accomplish their goals without involvement of this distrustful, shrewd and ambitious woman and smooth talker named Donalda Ammons?
Irina Sem Yu Shlimovich,
The still grieving deaf widow in Russia
( see my June 11, 2005 letter to the IOC below ).
June 11, 2006
MURDER OF MY DEAF HUSBAND IN MOSCOW
To: President and Members of the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee
Subject: Murder of My Deaf Husband,
CISS/Deaflympics President Ammons and
$110,000.00 Assistance by IOC
Dear IOC President and Board Members:
On March 2, 2006, via the International Mail I sent to your IOC office in Lausanne my letter to President. Several weeks later on, through my friend, I again e-mailed a copy of my March 2 letter to your office.
To my big regret, I have never received any response from the IOC or its officials to these 2 letters at all.
Now, I must share with you a very appalling news: the police had finally found in a remote part of the city of Moscow a dead body of my husband – Felix Shlimovich.
Felix’s body was in a bad and awful shape – his face was a deformed one, one eye was missing and much more.
I write to you again to tell you that all this happened because of one person with whom the IOC continues to do business – Donalda Ammons, the CISS President.
I have plenty evidence to support my position, that is, because of Ammons, my husband was kidnapped and murdered by Ammons’ deaf Russian people in Moscow.
On my March 2 letter I explained to you that Felix sued Ammons and her Russian accomplice Slava Klimov for property theft.
Ammons twice – on March 17, 2004 and May 17, 2004 – evaded to appear at the court trial in Washington, D.C.
If there was ever held a live court trial, Ammons and her Russian accomplice would have lost the case because Felix had a very solid proof and number of credible witnesses to demonstrate the irrefutable evidence that the two – Ammons and Slava Klimov – did indeed commit an act of theft.
Because of the above and in order not to ruin their personal reputation, Ammons and her accomplice Slava Klimov were very afraid to face justice at the court of law.
So, the idea to eliminate Felix came up from Ammons and Slava – the two Gallaudet University-based employees in Washington, D.C.
That is, before next scheduled January 18, 2006 trial date – Slava, in order to protect his own and Ammons’ integrity and through his deaf father Nikolay Klimov – took a very desperate act.
Slava contacted and convinced his own father – Nikolay – to do something against Felix.
On December 11, 2005, Nikolay hired and financed deaf killers in Moscow to kidnap and murder Felix.
This way Felix was eliminated from his life’s existence on the night of December 11, 2005!
THE CLEAR FACT WAS THAT HAD AMMONS NEVER SOUGHT HELP FOR HER OWN SEPARATE LAWSUIT CASE PROBLEMS FROM HER YOUNG RUSSIAN FRIEND AND COLLABORATOR – SLAVA KLIMOV – IN THE FIRST PLACE, THEN NOTHING TERRIBLE WOULD HAVE HAPPENED TO FELIX.
I blame Ammons for getting involved both Klimovs – father and son – in her own initial legal problem in 2001 and, later on, for her involvement – directly or indirectly – in stealing of Felix’s property in 2002, then kidnapping and murder of Felix in 2005.
In spite of the horrible behavior by Ammons, recently I read through the http://www.deaflympics.com website that the IOC gave away its financial assistance of $110,000.00 to the CISS organization, which is still headed by Ammons.
Is it proper for the IOC to do business with an organization such as the CISS, whose president was implicated in kidnapping and murder of my husband?
Will it be appropriate for Ammons as a president of an international sports organization, who did not make any effort in thwarting the December 11, 2005 criminal act tragedy against Felix, to award medals to athletes at the medal podium of next week’s World Championships for the Deaf in Cycling in California, USA?
I would like very much to hear your answers to these 2 important questions from you, the IOC.
Will you please inform me if you will answer to these 2 questions or not?
Because of distance, lack of money and weak international judicial system ( there is no appropriate court of law to file a criminal charge lawsuit against Ammons-the troublemaker-initiator anywhere ), Felix’s grieving father, brother and I are very helpless to do anything by bringing the USA -based resident Ammons and her Russian killers together to justice for their horrendous acts of kidnapping and murder of Felix.
Lately, after Felix’s body was found out, I and my deaf friends-supporters in Moscow and New York have been receiving death threats from Ammons’ people because Ammons’ people want to silence us over the news of kidnapping, murder and body finding of my husband.
What can the IOC do for me and my friends-supporters in this regard?
Please provide your response.
With Tears in Eyes,
Irina Sem Yu Shlimovich
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Yes I agree with President Jordan when he called the protesters the dissenters because I do not support the protest and they are blocking my education and my campus job. I am losing my wages due to the campus lockdown.
The protest is not representing me. I hope the admin will have enough balls to order the police to move in so that I can resume my education and my campus job!
I think Dr. Donalda Ammons is a wonderful person and loves to encourage deaf people to accomplish in everything. She is the RIGHT person to get involved with the FSSA in their protests. Many deaf people from anywhere, who love King and Linda Jordan, are now against them (IKJ & LJ). Donald is wrongly accussed and should not be judged because they thought killers were her friends. We are sorry about Irina’s loss but it is the same as weapon she is using to against Donalda.
I understand that the protest doesn’t represent you. However, it does represent the majority of Gallaudet stakeholders
I don’t know Donalda personally, but I’ve always heard wonderful things about her and her endeavors. I do know her family who are very nice. I’m convinced of her innocence. However, not at all am I minimizing the murder of your husband. I am truly sorry for your loss, Irina. I hope the real culprits will be caught and convicted of this horrible crime.
I am uncertain why you are bringing this matter here as this has nothing to do with the protest itself