Protesters Falsely Accused
Commentary: The protesters were going to let the students and staff of Clerc Center in, but the Gallaudet administrators decided to close the Clerc Center. Why were the students blamed and charged for closing MSSD and Kendall when it was the administrators who closed these two schools? elizabeth
From a PUG’s letter:Â
Yesterday (Thursday) we met  with Hillel Goldberg the Coordinator of Judical Affairs at the Judicial Affairs Office. Hillel explained the process of sending the letters to the effected students, the pre-hearing, the hearing, and the appeal.
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The students are being charged as follows:
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a) Non-compliance with the University decision to open the gates so that education could continue for all three schools on the Gallaudet Campus
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b) Disruption of academic and non-academic activities.
 Although we do not agree that there should be reprisals for these arrests, in the case that there are, we asked they not be connected to past or future infractions.  We also suggested consequences be a positive educational experience.
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So to summarize this, the tone of our meetings have been positive and has helped to reduce the some of our concerns in relationship to Judicial Affairs and the process. Unless the Board comes back and eliminates the reprisals, it is important for the students to follow the procedures that have been explained to them. Â
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Check out Gallaudet Student Handbook 2006/2007. See under JUDICIAL PROGRAM pages 51-56 Gallaudet Parents United: Report to PUG Â Friday Update from Tami Hossler and Wilton McMillan
Commentary: The protesters were going to let the students and staff of Clerc Center in, but the Gallaudet administrators decided to close the Clerc Center. Why were the students blamed and charged for closing MSSD and Kendall when it was the administrators who closed these two schools? elizabeth
From a PUG’s letter:Â
Yesterday (Thursday) we met  with Hillel Goldberg the Coordinator of Judical Affairs at the Judicial Affairs Office. Hillel explained the process of sending the letters to the effected students, the pre-hearing, the hearing, and the appeal.
Â
The students are being charged as follows:
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a) Non-compliance with the University decision to open the gates so that education could continue for all three schools on the Gallaudet Campus
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b) Disruption of academic and non-academic activities.
 Although we do not agree that there should be reprisals for these arrests, in the case that there are, we asked they not be connected to past or future infractions.  We also suggested consequences be a positive educational experience.
  Â
So to summarize this, the tone of our meetings have been positive and has helped to reduce the some of our concerns in relationship to Judicial Affairs and the process. Unless the Board comes back and eliminates the reprisals, it is important for the students to follow the procedures that have been explained to them. Â
Â
Check out Gallaudet Student Handbook 2006/2007. See under JUDICIAL PROGRAM pages 51-56 Gallaudet Parents United: Report to PUG Â Friday Update from Tami Hossler and Wilton McMillan
December 21st, 2006 at 9:01 am
So, IKJ admin told them the students closed all of those three schools?
Did they say this because of the gate blockage?
I wonder if they argued that they “feared” the safety of other children so they closed the schools but that the students were the “cause” of closing all three schools??
How did the IKJ admin write to BoT about that?
December 21st, 2006 at 9:43 am
Oh my gosh…
If that is true – then all of these people in 1988 who did protesting for the DPN movement did CLOSE the University, KDES and MSSD effectively for one whole week, should be responsible too?
Hands waving and I am standing up…signing, “Me too! I did the same thing in 1988, and should I be punished?”
Geez…
This is getting way too silly.
Amy Cohen Efron – Gally alumnus ’89, ’90 and ’92
December 21st, 2006 at 10:25 am
How sleep are the staff of Judicial affairs? What were they doing during the protesters? The BOT, the staff of ADM, DPS, AA, & PPD deserve to be punished not the protesters or GUFSSA. because the world know they caused Gallaudet University a big mess. Therefore; the protesters should not be falsely accussed.
December 21st, 2006 at 10:25 am
KDES and MSSD students were given extra “no-school” days within their scheduled school breaks anyway. Look at the KDES and MSSD academic calendar schedules via online.
The IKJ adminstration ordered the closing of KDES and MSSD schools which was not really necessary.
IKJ himself did not get any reprisal for closing the Kendall School and MSSD all entire one week back in ’88!! He or the Gallaudet BOT did not issue any reprisals against the DPN protestors for shutting down the whole campus all one week!!
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
December 21st, 2006 at 10:27 am
We better paste and cut the KDES and MSSD academic 2006 calendar via online and forward to the Gallaudet BOT ASAP before the IKJ adminstration manipulated the online data or hard copy of those schedules.
RLM
December 21st, 2006 at 12:23 pm
I remember that IKJ told the media in 1988 (after the protest) that simply they would treat it as if a snow storm closed down Gallaudet for one week.
In other words, in 1988 he was telling the media that it was no big deal that the entire campus was closed for a whole week.
What a hypocrite.
December 21st, 2006 at 1:10 pm
MZ, I remember reading that a staff from Kendall actually said that they were under orders by Gallaudet Admin. to close the school. Big wowie with this forced lie on admin’s part. I don’t see healing on their part. They’re still angry and projecting.
December 21st, 2006 at 3:05 pm
#6,
Yes, very matter-of-factly, it was Jordan who wrote a letter wherein he said to close the school. It was published in black and white at http://www.gallaudet.edu.
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:54 am
Ha ha.. I just clicked on this link and the web is under construction..being upgraded.
Anne Marie
December 23rd, 2006 at 9:55 am
Yes, the administrators decided to close the schools and unfairly blamed it on the protesters. We see that they are still doing that. They should take the responsibility for their actions. I remember that statement, too, Mike S. This protest has been peaceful from the beginning and the protesters had no interest in disrupting the deaf education of youngsters!
Double standards. It was ok for DPN to close the schools, bot not ok for UFG, even though UFG didn’t closed KDES and MSSD. There was a lot of double standards between these two protests.
Anne Marie, why am I not surprised? There has been other accounts where Gallaudet withdrew the sites after corrective information was printed on the blogs. They do read our blogs
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