Mishka Zena

From Jordan’s NPR Interview:

JORDAN:  I also want you to know that Gallaudet didn’t “play the deaf card.” http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/2006/11/29/transcript-of-jordan-npr-interview/

Gallaudet didn’t play the deaf card?

Read below and decide for yourself.  I stoppped after 19 quotes, but there was more on the Internet. Incidentally, while searching for that quote, I’ve not come across that quote from a student except for once last May.  All others were from Pro Fernandes Team.   What do you think?  Elizabeth

Jordan said, “it’s what kind of deaf person is deaf enough?” http://www.aapd-dc.org/News/disability/060515jkf.htm                                                                                                                                                         The university’s outgoing president decried the protest as “identity politics,” saying, “We are squabbling about what it means to be deaf.”http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194885,00.html                           

 Coogan said that a “subtext” to the opposition against Fernandes was “deaf politics. ”http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/10/31/gallaudet                   

Fernandes, however, has said some people do not consider her “deaf enough” to be president — a characterization that some students have rejected. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/10/14/protesters_at_school_for_deaf_arrested/                   

Fernandes believes opponents think she is “not deaf enough,” not culturally deaf or raised with sign language. Others say she is not sensitive to students’ needs. http://www.deaftoday.com/v3/archives/2006/05/rit_students_wi.html

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Ms Fernandes raised when she accused her opponents of rejecting her for not being “deaf enough”. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1935618,00.html.

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Mrs. Fernandes, who was a provost for six of her 11 years at Gallaudet, had said critics did not think she was “deaf enough“  http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20061127-120807-802r.htm                                                                                                             

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 Dr. Fernandes, in turn, donned a medallion of Joan of Arc, the French warrior burned at the stake for her beliefs. She said she was fighting for the deaf university’s interests and that students opposed her because she was “not deaf enough.”  http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06311/736289-84.stm   

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Fernandes said that some people did not consider her “deaf enough” to be president—a claim students have denied—http://www.diversityinc.com/public/760.cfm                                            Fernandes characterized it as claiming she wasn’t “deaf enough” for the job. The rhetoric grew ugly at times. http://www.newsleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061102/NEWS01/611020342/1002.                                                Fernandes and her supporters have said that she was being rejected for not being “deaf enough.” http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/10/30/gallaudet                                       

Though opponents called Dr. Fernandes a poor leader, lacking in charisma, she herself maintained that they did not consider her culturally “deaf enough.” http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/education/30gallaudet.html?ex=1165208400&en=826cbe4eac67df11&ei=5070                                                    

a new college president, who claims that she is opposed for being “not deaf enough”. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3561-2406796,00.html                                                                                   

Fernandes sought to define the current protests when they broke out, immediately after her selection in May, with three more words. She said she was “not deaf enough” for her opponents because she grew up speaking and didn’t learn ASL until she was an adult. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/22/AR2006102201086_pf.html                                                                                        

The newly chosen president of Gallaudet University, the nation’s only liberal arts college for the deaf, received a no-confidence vote from the faculty Monday in a dispute that she said comes down to whether she is “deaf enough” for the job. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/09/national/main1600631.shtml                                               

Fernandes, who grew up speaking and did not learn American Sign Language until she was in her 20s, has said the protesters deem her “not deaf enough,” http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061015/COLUMNISTS06/610150352/1039                                                                                                                     

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Fernandes: I think that’s probably at the heart of this matter. I think the other messages that are being sent out are distractions. Some people think I’m not deaf enough. There’s a kind of perfect deaf person. http://www.examiner.com/a-101402~Q___A__Jane_K__Fernandes__president_elect_of_Gallaudet.html .

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Fernandes, who has been deaf since birth, had refused to resign, saying it would hurt the university to allow protests to determine the school’s leadership. She has said that some people do not consider her “deaf enough” to be president because http://www.redorbit.com/news/education/711771/ gallaudet_rejects_fernandes_as_president/in

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Fernandes said she was being opposed because Deaf culture advocates didn’t see her as adequately representing the deaf experience http://www.tilrc.org/docs/1106signs.htm ‘.dex.html

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