IKJ Sends Out E-Mail Regarding Search For Interim Provost
By Chris and Allison Kaftan on Sat 20 May 2006 |
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This was also sent out via campus e-mail later in the day yesterday.
May 19, 2006
MEMORANDUM
TO: Members of the Campus Community
FR: I. King Jordan
RE: Interim Provost
In order to allow for an orderly transition to her presidency, Dr. Jane Fernandes will step down as provost and initiate a national search for a new provost. I intend to appoint an interim provost who can serve until someone is selected for the permanent position. I intend to do so with significant community involvement.
On Monday, May 15, I met with Mr. Mark Weinberg, Chair of the University Faculty, and discussed with him the process and timelines I intend to follow and sought his support and that of the University Faculty. Also on May 15, I communicated in writing to Mr. Weinberg as well as to Mr. Cary Barbin, chair of the Staff Advisory Committee, Mr. Noah Beckman, President of the Student Body Government and Mr. Alexander Zernovoj, President of the Graduate Student Association asking for their help identifying individuals who could serve on an interim provost identification committee.
I will establish a committee of three faculty members, two staff people, one undergraduate student and one graduate student which will be chaired by an administrator. I am seeking nominations of individuals to serve on the committee by June 2 and will convene the first meeting of the committee on June 9. At that meeting, I will share with the committee a job description and discuss with them the process I want for them to follow to identify individuals who are interested in and qualified for the interim provost position.
After the meeting, I will send the campus a call for nominations and expressions of interest asking that interested individuals send a letter and curriculum vita directly to the committee. The committee will then review the materials they receive, interview those individuals they determine to be best qualified for the position and present me with information about the strengths and weaknesses of qualified candidates.
I will then interview candidates and hope to be able to fill the interim provost position by the end of June or early July.
Thank you for your help identifying candidates for the position of interim provost.
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Many expect current CLAST Dean Karen Kimmel to win for provost, as she did all the dirty work for Jane during her provost years, and she knows enough dirt on both Jane and Irving to get the job. Of course, faculty and students will be despised but, hey, this has been the modus operandi for a couple of years now!! Why would they change now?!
Until these people’s greedy grip on exclusive power won’t loosen up, there won’t be any real change in the Rugrat’s playground of King, Fernandes and Kimmel, ohh sorry I wanted to say Gallaudet University. ;(
This letter is the most appropriate one so far in the most recent incidents and the President is trying to make thing moving forward. Sound good and please try to be realistic and accept what he has to say and move on. Please do not try hard to play favorism because you like a person because of the personality or social affiliations.
The appointment of new provost will happen during summer break when the campus is almost empty. Huhh, have you seen something similar in Summer 2004? Was not Kimmel appointed to Dean just like that?? Folks, the old regime won’t learn new tricks… Too bad!
Testing the Truth:
Where did you hear this? In *NONE* of the announcements from the BOT or King was there a statement about the appointment of the new provost occurring this summer.
King sent an email to the SBG and GSA asking for a student rep to serve on the interim provost search committee. I know because I got that email. The search will occur June 6 to June 30. The permanent provost search will not occur until this fall.
So, where did you hear that?
-ck
“”I will then interview candidates and hope to be able to fill the interim provost position by the end of June or early July.”"
Did not you guys published that? ;)
The key word there is INTERIM.
That is right. The King letter is all about the interim provost.
Indeed zoltan, the letter is about the INTERIM. Now go back and read the thread. Details are important.
You think you know who am I, but you don’t. You are funny aniger!! The summer coup may turn sour, very sour…
Sargon
Apologies. You were very open with who you are on the other blogs, your photo accompanies your entries on elisa’s blog, which links to your page. If you intend your identity to be confidential, I apologize for the breech.
This person may be the same or may be another person. How do you know?
Fernandes complained to the NYT that the protest was encited by someone I know. She said: “She denied tenure to a faculty member (…). She accused the dissenting faculty members of encouraging the protests and exploiting students’ naïveté to settle scores with her.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05.....audet.html
I have good reason to belive that she micromanaged a spyring on Internet sites that criticised her, collected names and information and gave it a group of lawyers paid by Gallaudet $$$. Then she made false accusations in from of the Board of Trustees in order to save her presidency and dig people she did not like. Someone I know was denied tenure because Fernandes played the dirty cards successfully at the BoT.
Okay, whatever. Not interesting in playing spy meets spy about someone’s identity. cheers.
So respect my name, please, and call me the same way I call myself:
testing_the_truth
Deal?? :-)
if the interim provost is selected from the current University faculty i feel it is possible they would become the permanent Provost - otherwise why shift the ranks?
Joseph,
It already been stated in Gallaudet public relations emails that the interim provost won’t be eligible to apply for the permanent provost position. So, there’s a very, very small chance that the interim provost will become the permanent provost.
Ridor and other bloggers have mentioned there is no timetable for the selection. They are correct. If the University wants to come out of this with less battle scars, then they should get moving with the permanent provost search immediately when the school year begins in the fall.
-ck
INTERIM = NO timetable limited.
HELLO?
R-
Read the thread little ricky. see what I’m responding to.
Was I talking to you, Regina?
Of course not.
Move along.
R-
LOL. whatever you say ricky.
Hi Everyone: I finally found a working link to the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) report on Gallaudet University. Here it is. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/......2005.html
This link will take you to the details of the assessment summary. There are several areas considered, with percent scores ranging from 74% for Strategic Planning to 13% (yikes!) for Accountability. It’s very interesting, and pretty readable, for a government report. On the main page of the report (click Assessment Summary) is where you’ll see in black and white that Gallaudet was rated Ineffective. However, there is an improvement plan in place. The year of the assessment was 2005, and I seem to recall seeing somewhere that it was published in February 2006.
It’d be interesting to see where IKJ and President-Select Fernandes go with this. Sounds like they have a lot of work to do.
Here’s another very interesting report by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services (OSERS).
http://www.ed.gov/about/report.....audet.html
This report contains the retention rates for the university, KDES, and MSSD. Interesting stuff. Finally, some real numbers and hard data. Enjoy!
The PART report has benn well-known since its publication in February. It should have been in the center of the president search. But Jordan and Fernandes managed to duck its findings and accused the government with faulty reporting. Can you imagine that? Talk about arrogance…
I have somehow the feeling that in fact they have been scared by the serious criticism in the PART report and Jordan’s resignation may have been related. During the next year’s budget appropriation ther could be a considerable slash of government funding because of the inefficiency grade in the report.
If you look at the summary table it says inefficient means that the institution is in the bottom 4.00% of the list. Who was reponsible for academics during the last 6 years? Improving academics is the duty of the provost. Great job, provost Fernandes! :((
The second link just proved that MSSD’s enrollment has been indeed declining. I mentioned it before here and somebody screamed for proof. There you have it. Actually that report only goes back to 1998. If it was to go as far back as 1995 or so, you’d see that the enrollment was around 350. I know because I was a student back then.
Many students left MSSD after Fernandes implemented a new policy in which students were NOT grouped in Engllish classes according to their reading levels. In other words, students who read at 2nd grade level were thrown into the same English class as those who read at, say, 9th grade level. That forced teachers to teach down to the lowest common denominator. Fernandes thought it was necessary because black students tended to cluster at the lowest level classes. Her intention, to see more even mixing of races in classes, might’ve been good, but obviously the solution was, to put it mildly, stupid.
It’s just one of many instances that led me to question Fernandes’ judgment and acumen.
“Her intention, to see more even mixing of races in classes, might’ve been good, but obviously the solution was, to put it mildly, stupid.”
Nice analysis!!
I don’t debate the fact that enrollment at MSSD declined during the time JKF was in charge of Clerc Center programs. I do argue with the claim that the decline was solely because of her.
Unfortunately, the tendency to tweak class groupings is all too common in schools for the deaf. It’s not an indicator of ineptitude all by itself, because just about every SD does it, and typically without any basis in empirically validated research.
Probably, the grouping of high- performing readers with low-performing black students made the parents of those black students very happy, thinking that their children would finally get equal access to a high quality curriculum. I agree that it doesn’t make sense, but the intention was good.
1995 was 11 years ago, for Pete’s sake. Meanwhile, other fads have come and gone in the field of deaf education. Now there’s a new fad one called Star Schools, and guess what? Schools for the deaf that have this program are once again grouping high performing deaf students with low performing deaf students. History repeats itself.
Nowadays, it’s looking more and more like deaf students performing at grade level will elect to be mainstreamed so that they can get access to a grade level curriculum. I wonder if the same thing is happening at Gallaudet too?
It’s moot to discuss her past performance anyway, because that was not a factor in the selection process.
The point is that Fernandes used a poor judgment in implementing this policy, period. I don’t care if other deaf schools are doing the same thing- their principals aren’t Gallaudet president candidates.
I understand that there’s a nationwide trend of declining enrollment at deaf schools. However it’s much more gradual than what MSSD experienced- a plummet from 350 to 220 in only 3 years (1995 to 1998). Since so many parents attributed transferring their kids to this particular policy, it’s pretty reasonable to put the blame on Fernandes.
It’s all about good judgment. I don’t have a PhD like she does, but the policy would seem like an obvious disaster to me even before I could see its results.
You are correct, according to Tom Humphries and Cecila May Baldwin (who represented BoT in a meeting with protesters), performance wasn’t factored in at all- instead, they looked at “qualifications”. That puzzled me because, isn’t past performance part of one’s qualifications? Being qualified is more than holding a certain position or degree.
“Even mixing” of races was the goal? Me thinks she was trying to halt the insidious phenomenon I call “involuntary tracking”, where teachers’ expectations of black students are low enough to place them on the vocational, instead of college-prep, track. Nevertheless, I do think placing 2nd grade readers with 9th grade readers was too extreme to be workable without other support like team teaching.
Yeah…I’m all for raising expectations for students of color. But there are better ways to do this! :)
As others have said on more than one occasion, a major beef I’ve had with the protestors is that they have not been able to substantiate their wild claims. Many commentors and bloggers have mentioned the PART report, but until yesterday and today, no one posted a working link to the site on the blogs. Furthermore, I’ve noticed that lots of people quote from the PART report, but badly misconstrue the facts. For example, it’s a giant leap from saying that IKJ/JKF are responsible for the inefficient rating, Gallaudet is in the bottom 4% of the list (where does it say that, anyway? what list?), and “improving academics” is [their] responsibility. Granted that the president and provost have general oversight over the entire university. I’m pointing out that, according to PART, the picture is more complicated than that. Some goals were met, others were not. Gallaudet is doing well in some areas and not so well in others. Let’s keep it real, OK?
Just for comparison, here’s the link to the PART report on NTID, which also gets federal funding from OSERS/Dept. of Education. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/......2005.html
OSERS rates NTID as “adequate.” This rating “describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.” It’s one step up on the scale from “ineffective” which was GU’s rating. NTID also has issues related to financial management, and the recruitment, retention and graduation rates of its students.
The findings of this PART, and previous PART reports, are not news. Apparently the report is issued yearly. It isn’t a deep dark secret that the GU admin is trying to hide. I seriously doubt that the current report is what triggered IKJ’s retirement.
Faulty reporting — the 2005 report mentioned that some students were counted twice if they were undergraduates and also taking a professional course, whatever that is. I don’t see anything blatantly underhanded here. It will be addressed in future reports. Then we’ll see if GU is still “ineffective.”
Thank you for finally providing a link to this report! It is muchly appreciated.
Honey don’t be shy, have a serious look at the bottom of this page:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/.....about.html
then look ot this:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/......2005.html
Now pinch your arm and check if you are awake? ;) if not, please awake now!!!
Ever since its publication this February everyone could read these pages and it was widely discussed in Gallaudet. However, the administration launched an attack on the government report calling it faulty and rejecting the outcome based on the fact that Gallaudet “experts” were not invited to the preparation of the report. Funny, huhh? This IS the point of PART that INDEPENDENT investigation, so bribing/faking are excluded.
Now we know that ANY independet assessment of Gallaudet’s academic performance is abysmal.
It might be another surprise for you that the provost position was established to replace the “vice president for academic affairs” that was filled by Roz Rosen before Fernandes. The provost IS reposinble for academic affairs now, and Fernandes IS reponsible for the damaging outcome of the PART report.
Try to live with that, please. Okay?
responsible, etc.
I comics that made me laugh ;))
Click on testing_the_truth above.
Oh I see. the link you gave goes to “About Us” for the PART report, and it shows a distribution chart for how the 793 federal programs were assessed.
You misread the data, however. This is not a percentile ranking chart. It simply shows the percentages of programs that scored effective, moderately effective, adequate, etc. It is incorrect and inaccurate to say that Gallaudet scored in the bottom 4%.
OSERS/Dept of Ed. has been using the PART for only 4 consecutive years. That IKJ/JKF are responsible for running the university and for academic standards is fact. What is not fact is that there has been a decline in academic standards, a steep decline in enrollment directly attributable to some action by JKF, a rise in audism, etc., since they assumed leadership at GU.
Fortunately, I doubt that the Federal Government will throw out the baby with the bath water. Instead, I can live with the reality that there is room for improvement, that there is an improvement plan, has specific goals, and that progress will be monitored annually. This is a step in the right direction.
I copy here the chart as I see you don’t believe your own Inquiring (or Blindfolded???) Eyes. ;)
Distribution of Program Ratings
Number of Programs Assessed 793
Effective 15%
Moderately Effective 29%
Adequate 28%
Ineffective 4%
Results Not Demonstrated 24%
It IS a hierarchy, did you realize it? Effective, moderately effective and adequate, probably also not demonstrated are coming all before the bottom 4.00% which is “ineffective”. Unfortunately, Gallaudet belongs to the latter category! Are you still in doubt? Oh, come on! Believe your own eyes.
As I mentioned the provost IS responsible for academic affairs, therefore for this failure also. The SAME person who happens to be the new president. Ouch!! Could you follow me?
Now, the PART report does not mention “a steep decline in enrollment” and other bullsh@t you talk about. So please DO NOT change the subject, okay?
On the other hand, the PART found missed educational targets, wasteful management, extremely high educational cost, and inefficient use of federal funding. Do you know what THAT will mean at the next year budget appropriation? A considerable slash of government funding!
No wonder King is escaping into undeserved glory and leaving the mess to the next administration. Also there is no surprize that the upcoming BANKRUPTCY MANAGEMENT could not have been trusted by the BoT with outsiders as Ron Stern the most eloquent and excellent candidate. In order to seal the leaks of the secret cover-up maneuvering, all outsiders had to be shut out and a mediocre insider had to be established as the next president.
The BoT exactly knows what they are doing. But there might be a miscalculation in the well-planned plot, a major backlash they failed to calculate into the equation: this is the insurmountable power of a continued protest movement and the most powerful solidarity of the Deaf communities around the U.S. and the world.
[…] Gallaudet remained a dominant topic for DeafDC.com visitors as Julie brought up the now-apparent splits in the deaf community and the racial conflicts surrounding the presidential selection process. The blogpower team of Chris and Allison Kaftan discussed Dr. Fernandes’s attitude towards her constituents and the media’s declaration that the protest was over. Also, two memos from Gallaudet were released; one from the Board of Trustees declaring no reprisals, and one from Dr. Jordan on the search for an interim provost. DeafDC.com welcomed a new blogger, Swetha Amruthur, and pushed the hot-button issues of cochlear implants, privacy, and English as our national language. Remember, you read it here first! […]
Any ideas who to nominate for interim provost? I want to nominate Dr. Isaac Agboola for permanent provost.
Off my head- for interim- how about Cheryl Wu, Dr. Carol Erting, Eileen Mathhews, Steve Weiner, Donalda Ammons, Yerder Anderssen? Let me know any pros & cons before I email IJK my nominations for interim provost. (and oh, Glenn for permanent provost too, if he’s interested.)
I rather like the idea of Cheryl Wu. Active, passionate. From what I can see from a distance, balanced.
How about nominating some people from RIT/NTID/CSUN/etc.? How about for the interim provost to be also an external job posting, that way Gallaudet can collect fresh ideas/insights? No offense intended to Gallaudet associates.
I don’t have a problem with that personally, the only problem is…I don’t know folks at other institutions to nominate. Even if I knew a name, I don’t know anything about her/his performance at these institutions.
Cheryl Wu is fabulous. FYI, she would surely qualify as “not deaf enough.” Cheryl is hard of hearing, and speaks (yes, SPEAKS) Chinese! For what it’s worth, I would love to see anybody in the FSSA organization take on the interim provost job. Then, might we see a little more sympathy for JKF and what a tough job she’s had for the past 6 years? “Herding cats” doesn’t even begin to cover it… see how long the interim provost can be thought of as nice and well-liked and still be the “bad cop” of Gallaudet.
By the way, KBM, I was flabbergasted when you said that some BDA members actually don’t have a problem with JKF and think she’s okay! I for one would sure like to hear more about (or from) them.
Yes, it’s quite surprising to me as well. One of them told me something about her generous financial support for a BDSU event as one of the reasons they have no beef with her, I didn’t ask more questions to glean specific details, my apologies. Let me see if I can ask one of them to respond.
Okay, got a response from a highly respected Gally staffer, and a long time NBDA member- (still awaiting a response from another person)-
“As a coalition we consist of students from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds and from cultures- the idea of bashing a woman in such negative ways is simply not acceptable. JK has helped MANY students of color who were about to withdraw for financial reasons and same for many international students in similiar situations, so there is no desire to attack a person who has not harmed most of them. Students of color KNOW JK is serious about diversity because she championed the effort and they feel she would help make Gallaudet a safer place for students of color faced with a hostile and racist environment where many people prefer to ignore racism and want focus on audism only- students of color feel the same about Stephen Weiner and many also think Ron Stern is also committed to diversity so its really NOT about any individual but rather who would protect them from second class status of Galladuet. Basically, students of color saw the flaw in the process and not necessarily on the individuals or their character.”
KBM, the GallyFSSA website was finally updated today. There is a letter purporting to be from the Atlanta BDA… has your name at the bottom. Dated 5/12/06. Can you verify that you took part in writing this letter? Has ABDA had any further thoughts about the open letter or how/if they will want to work with IKJ/JKf/BoT on the various issues that have arisen since May 1st? There’s been a flurry of memos from the BoT to the FSSA and Gallaudet community since then … I was hoping there would be some rapprochement coming soon. One thing I would definitely like to see is whether any organization will write an Open Letter giving their support to IKJ/JKF/BoT and offering some practical ideas how the two will work together. Any chance that Atlanta BDA will take the lead here? It would be such a magnanimous gesture. How about the other multicultural groups on campus, if you know? Maybe you/BDA can get the lemmings going up the cliff instead of down it? ;-)
Since May 12, no further discussion on the issue has occurred within ABDA thereafter, mainly because we’re occupied with conference planning (www.southernbda2006.com). Yes, that letter is legit, I took part in writing that letter, in soliditary (sp) with National BDA. NBDA made a verbal commitment to Coalition of Students of Color firstmost (FSSA secondly). That fourth demand about restoring honor and respect to JK- we meant it, however ABDA has no immediate plans to act publicly in contrary with the mother organization, National BDA, nor with Coalition of Students of Color. As a matter of respect, we prefer these two organizations to take the first lead, and the local chapter will act in a supportive position accordingly. Now, me as individual, I do what I can- most of the time it means discussing practical ideas with NBDA key people or emailing some people on FSSA and Coalition of Diversity my thoughts. This is the summer of our first regional BDA conferences (four of them), so we will be discussing this issue with a lot of folks there and here, and come up with something.
I agree with you re: Cheryl Wu. She is fabulous and a strong leader for the FSSA.
I asked Dr. Wu and she said no thanks- the inequities in the process are simply unacceptable. I am continually digging in this and the more I dig and ask around, the more I’m thinking that come fall, we will be seeing a serious battle.
hmm… I really, really doubt those “inequities” would apply to Cheryl Wu. She’d be a shoo-in for any administrative job at Gallaudet lucky enough to get her.
By the way, I did read Lindsay Dunn’s article in deafprofessional.net and was blown away. (Interested readers can view it here: http://deafprofessional.net/in.....;Itemid=40)
I wish there were more like him. I especially appreciated the parallels between the two previous U.S. presidential elections and the perception of unfairness there too.
Honestly, the BoT has everything under control. Further protest would be fruitless. I would so much rather that the protest organizations expend their considerable energies and frustrations on things that really matter, such as the many issues listed on the NAD web site.
By inequities, she is referring to how both the PSC and the interim provost search process are not inclusive. We already know what she meant by PSC. Now, in respect to this interim provost, there are only two students representatives- the president of SBG and GSA. Both of them have been caught not being sensitive to students of color with the original PSC. So Dr. Jordan should have also included a student representative from Coalition of Students of Color or from BDSU, APA, etc.
“BoT has everything under control”, well…I don’t know about that…let’s wait and see what happens during the summer and especially in the fall before we come to that kind of conclusion.
Who really want to be an interim provost as a drop in the bucket??
Why the IKJ/JKF adminstration have to rush the search for interim provost??
The best way to resolve the whole Gally fisaco is NOT to have an interim provost!!! What good will be for the university to have an interim provost if someone will be not able to use it as a stepping stone.
How UNFAIR of IKJ used JKF as an example of qualification to be the 9th President while deny the career ladder to the interim provost.
THAT is a pure CONTRADICATION on the part of the Gallaudet Board of Trustees, excluding Dr. Harvey Goodstein (which I have a great respect for him and Astrid)!!
Why waste our precious time on this blog??
We must sharpen ourselves for the long haul against the real cronyism and incomptenency and “blind three mices” analogy!!
LET’s send the STRONG message to the IKJ/JKF adminstration and Gally’s BOT that we will NOT ACCEPT ANY INTERIM PROVOST!
If any of you really careful to read the latest BOT announcement regarding Fernandes’ resignation as the provost and become the acting president.
Fernandes is still offically regin as the dual role of Provost and Acting President, not formally step down as the Provost.
SAME THING with the recent BOT announcement regarding “no reprisals”. Many people still not realize that there WILL be reprisals after the Commencement Day. *chopped head rolling down*
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
Dark clouds are gathering in the sky of Gallaudet finances. Republicans will name as pork in the Congress budget. Cuts will be forced. Fernandes was selected to crisis manage. The guillotine will be set up and heads will be rolling.
Just have to share it with everyone:
Joe Dirt
(#4407) | 2006-05-22 05:59:58
Fernandes Resigns as Deaf Mayor, Appoints Blue Ribbon Commission To Replace Her by Joe Dirt
On Saturday, May 22nd over a plate of hasty lasagna at her suburban Washington, DC home, Gallaudet University President-Elect Jane K. Fernandes announced her retirement as mayor of the Deaf World.
“It seems since it was announced that I will be the 9th President of Gallaudet University, homegrown, grasssroots “been on SSDI their whole life” deaf people seem to think I am the Mayor of Deafville. Nothing could be further from the truth”.
When pressed on, it seemed she had more to say.
“These poor unfortunate souls, some of whom have NEVER interacted with a hearing person or held down a full time paying job, confuse the President of Gallaudet University with someone who actually gives a crap about them”.
Fernandes went on to explain about the actual duties and responsibilities of the University Presidential office, nothing of which appeared to have anything to do with international deaf people, or even deaf people from across the United States, aside from being able to offer advanced college degrees to deaf people (of whom very few, less than 4% of the available pool, take advantage of.)
“Why the affinity for Gallaudet University?”, Fernandes volunteered. “It’s very simple: they have no place else to go. They don’t have much of a life to begin with. If they’re not getting drunk, high, or having meaningless sexual one night stands with a complete stranger who has a sexual disease infection, they’re certainly not going to a University classroom.”
To replace her as the Mayor of Deafville, Fernandes announced the appointment of a blue ribbon, all deaf panel/commission to find a new Mayor of Deafville called R.A.P.E.:
Retire
Aged
Personnel
Early
Old **** Gallaudet University professors such as Gina Oliva, MJ Bievnenu, and Elaine Jacobowotiz, all of whom are so old they can only eat applesauce and strained peas, have gleefully endorsed the idea that they now have a purpose in life to find the new Mayor of Deafville and have put off their plans to commit Hari-Kari together.
All 3 issued a joint statement: “We are excited to be RAPE’d and look forward to picking a new Mayor of Deafville! Our first choice would be Gill Eastman, if he is still alive. And if he is dead, we will just hire an embalmer and taxidermist to prop him up and attach some wires to his hands and arms to make it look like he is still using sign language.”
What’s the purpose of re-posting this? Joe Dirt is an idiotic troll. Best way to deal with trolls like him is to IGNORE them!
He’s the most entertaining writer on this site - next to me, of course. Troll or not. Speaking of trolls, you ever notice most deaf people look deformed?
If you’re not a troll, you smell suspiciously like one.
ever notice most trolls look deformed?
I loved what Ben M. once wrote, just go to MVA and see what the average citizen looks like. Makes the rest of us Ogres feel better.
My apologies to the authors of this post; I know these type of comments are rather stagnating.
How would you know what I smell like “sniffs myself” smells like Oscar Meyer to me, cupcake.
All I know is that I wouldn’t light a cigarette in your presence; otherwise we’d both go *FOOOOOMPH*
I think I can do without a blackened face and hair sticking out every which way with smoke circling me.
The smell of sulphur around you is that noxious. Ever consider using the bathroom and/or stopping eating deviled eggs?
Well well well… ooo lalalala. How witty. HOw can you let your talents go to waste trading insults, when you couldn’t even mount an adequate defense for your cute little revolution?
I Joe Dirt supposed to be Deaf?
I you deaf?
LOL. My kingdom for an edit button. The question stands: is Joe Dirt supposed to be Deaf?
FSSA just issued their response to this letter from the BoT- you can read it at gallyfssa.org. Scroll down a bit.
The letter from AADP is pretty interesting.
has anyone visited http://www.gallyprotest.org? interesting stuff here. It is Brian Riley’s web site re the legal aspects of the protest. His schtick is that they are looking for a pro bono lawyer to sue the Federal Government to force a change in the membership of the BoT, the bylaws, and possibly the Gallaudet charter itself. There is a rehash of some stuff, like past press releases, the Education of the Deaf Act, the complete BoT bylaws, and so on and so forth.
I’d be curious to get input on the proposed legal angle from a lawyer-type. Anybody out there who is qualified and able to comment?
Well, I am not a lawyer. My first reactions: I think it will get out of hand. It looks like it will put more unnecessary and unforeseen damages to the whole community. By the way, who is Brian Riley?
no idea… but I bet Ricky and Zoltan will let us know within a few hours. Brian Riley plays for their team.
Gallaudet budget contains items suitable for legal fees. Nobody knows exactly how much money lawyers take from the university, but it might be considerable as lawyers just LOVE to work for Gallaudet. ;-)
The problem is that the legal system might be usurped for the benefit of current administration, and Gallaudet monies might pay for something that is NOT necessarily Gallaudet interest but individual administrator’s interest to stay at the top. These people have thick enough skin to claim that their own demise would be the demise of Gallaudet itself, and use the resources accordingly.
Now, this has to be challenged! If the new WEB-site attracts support, the protest movement won’t be defenseless anymore. This is not directly linked to FSSA.
The gallyprotest.org site also has a blog, and the address is http://www.gallyprotest.org/blog/index.html
Today is its first day of operation. Among the several profound and thought-provoking questions include:
(1) Should we sue the US Federal Government to change the bylaws of the BoT? (2a) Should the BoT be *elected* by the students/faculty/staff/alumni members? (2b) Should the BoT be appointed by the President of the US? (3) Should we file a court injunction to block Fernandes’s appointment as the next President of Gallaudet?
hmmm … I dunno… can’t be sure… but I suspect there is a lack of understanding of how universities operate.
(Yes, that’s me being sardonic again.)
*whistles* Wow. Yeah. They sure have a serious lack of knowledge over legal matters and on how universities operate. Sheesh!
I agree.
Regardless of my opinions on JKF and the BoT, I’d have to say I agree. :-(