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Deaf President Now!: The 1988 Revolution at Gallaudet University | 
 enlarge | Authors: John B. Christiansen, Sharon N. Barnartt
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1701713
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 1563680351
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.91209753
EAN: 9781563680359
ASIN: 1563680351
Publication Date: March 1995
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Nothing about them without them February 1, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book chronicles the events leading up to and the deaf president now revolution at Gallaudet University. As the world's only university for deaf and hard-of-hearing studentsm Gallaudet had revolutionary potential from inception.
When Dr. Jerry C. Lee announced that he was leaving the university, many students and faculty felt that this would be their year. Because the Gallaudet administration had consisted mainly of hearing people, these dissenters felt that they were being condescended to.
Not only was the sole hearing candidate Elizabeth Zinser picked, but critical snafus undercut her very brief administration. Then-board chair Jane Spilman allegedly said that 'deaf people are not able to function in a hearing world' ironically reinforcing the protestor cause. Zinser's academic training in rehabilitative sciences hinted at the 'medical model' of disability which many of the students found outmoded and problematic.
The students recieved national media attention, alumni (including the use of the alumni house as an organizing space) and Congressional support. He had initially given his own support to Zinser in an attempt to forge campus unity, but the other presidential candidate, I. King Jordan (then Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences) withdrew his support. Zinser subsequently announced her resignation. Jordan became Gallaudet's first deaf president.
The DPN is an inspiring saga for anybody (particularly college students attempting to create their own campus chage). The actions of Gallaudet students later inspired me to challenge patronizing assumptions being made about my own community.
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