From Last Night
At last! At last! We reached our goals! They had the rally at field
house at 5pm. They pronounced that Dr. Jane Fernandes has been fired.
The Board of Trustees has decided to terminate the contract of agreement that Dr. Jane Fernandes earned 2 million dollars and the position of Gallaudet University’s ninth president. Dr. Jane Fernandes has say that she is greatly in sorrow and has big hope for Gallaudet. But she failed, Dr. I King Jordan says that It is great that Dr. Jane Fernandes has the courage and she dedicate to this community at Gallaudet.
After the pronouncation that Dr. Jane Fernandes is terminated,
the student burst in tears of happiness, the hands went up and the mouth opened and scream, the legs and the arm movement is shaky and huggable.
At last, we finally worked hard and broke JK’s designate as a president. Gallaudet University is now ours. We made this university successful and for the future of Gallaudet and the children of the future.
We had the ceremony at the football field, the burning of the dummy of the Jane Kelleher Fernandes. We are happy that we have Gallaudet, now we create better leadership person that could lead us at Gallaudet. We had a lot of hugs, talking, and taking picture. People screamed “There is party tonight! JK is going home!” They acted like it is their happiest moment at Gallaudet.
Hunger strikes has been strong and sturdy all these long and hard three weeks of protesting and suffering without foods. Now they are taken to the hospital and get I.V. and hope they will heal again.
Gallaudet is alive, back again. We the Gallaudet University, our home. I must
thankful for their bravery throughout the protest week, it has been hard
and we succeed, they know what they love. The love is for Gallaudet,
they know the deepest guts feeling of Gallaudet. No one in the world
can destroy Gallaudet. We standby so strong and solid deaf communities.
I am now having the tears of joyness, this part is the best Gallaudet
experience for my freshman year. I truly am proud of all the every
person in deaf communities that are there for Gallaudet University. We are like family, we made this unity and warm loving community.
I love you all! We made it, we succeed together, we are always
Gallaudetians in our heart.
“Believe your dream and goal, take a blink, you will land to your
destination.” — me
From a student protester, Paul, one of my regular contacts
email contact: mishkazena@aol.com
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TO Hungerstrikes:
I pray for you all… I hope you all get well soon and be strong. You did make it through! We care about you all and we were worried about you all, too. My heart goes to you all. Come back to Gallaudet soon and we are so proud of you all. Expecially I know David Simmons very well while I was an international student at Gallaudet (from the Netherlands), I was so worried about you and I did not want you die on Gallaudet campus, but you made decision. So I did pray for you and others. Get Well Soon, David!!
(PS: can anyone give this msg to hungerstrike for me)
The race has been run and the battle has been won. Now must come the time for healing. There will be a LOT of healing which must now take place.
J. Fernandes was only the head of a boil, which will continue to fester until the oral deaf and the Deaf, who were born learning ASL,..began to learn to work together as people under a common culture. The coming generation of Deaf children must be claimed from a Hearing world, that does not want them nor does it want them to be Deaf..with a capital “D”.
Don’t forget the deaf kids, who are graduating from high school and read only on a fourth grade level,..don’t forget them.
Don’t forget the deaf blind children, who are still being labled “uneducable”..just because they are deaf and blind,..those children still exist.
Don’t forget all of those non-hearing folks, who are forced to be on public assistance because rehab folks still are labling Deaf and deaf as “stupid.”
Don’t forget that only eighty per cent of America’s deaf population gets a comprehensive education.
Don’t forget all of those Hearing parents, who need to be exposed to rational and intelligent Deaf adults, who can guide them in making the proper decisions for their born deaf children and help those parents not be sucked in by extreme oralist “promses” of teaching deaf children to be “same as hearing” via an all oral education.
The list of “don’t forgets” is long. The Gally protesters have won your battle over the appointment of J.Fernandes. She will be gone!!
This is just the begininng. Now you face the greatest war of all, the greatest challenge of all, and that challenge is life in a Heaing World and the challenge of what you are going to do about it. Good luck!!
Stanelle stares at the marks of human bites on her hands and says,
“I hope that I never have to see such marks on anyone else’s hands, ever again. Deaf children are not animals…to be abandoned because they could not comprehend an “oral education.
Deafness will not go away tomorrow just because some folks say that it will. The only people, who can say what is to happen to Deaf are the Deaf. And a Deaf president at Gallaudet will help win the respect of the world so that the idea of Deafness as a culture will be accepted and Deaf, whose primary language is ASL, will be listened to in this world.
Congratulatons on this development in the search for “Unity for Gallaudet!”
Please pass my message along to the protesters and all those concerned in this mighty war on ignorance!!
This message from Joshua Toz was quoted in today’s New York Times! Everybody rush out and buy a copy!
I know they are on sale at one of the shops in Union Station.
Congratulations to Joshua for being included in a front-page article in the New York Times! Wow, that’s impressive!
Please make the correction, Elizabeth. Joshua Toz wrote that.
Brian
If you don’t like my words, sorry. There is still a whole world out there, which knows nothing of just why such a protest took place. If I can talk the eight to ten Hearing Kent State students, who hang around with my hearing son and read my blog, into reading mishkazena’s blogs and Carl Shroeder’s blogs, and elisawrites blog with the same words that you don’t like,..then my words will not be written in vain.
People have to think about and realize just WHY conditions got to the point that they did so that a protest was necesary. I am still reading blogs and talking to people and trying to find out just what happened during the past ten years and I am thinking about what I can tell others,..in my little corner of the world, to help keep it from happening again.
I’ve gotten at least seven or eight hearing college students thinking about their Deaf counterparts and I consider that to be quite a few people. don’t tell me that you don’t believe college students can..”change the world!”