Also it seems to me that you need to go back and read more on how JKF’s history of her employment had caused numerous problems not only among the students but faculty as well.

Also remember that a well paid PR hired by IKJ’s administration had done a shrewd job in covering up their tracks and to portray the protestors as the “bad guy.”

Back to the point, IKJ is a hypocrite for quoting about the appropriateness of having a protest. Why punish against those who had fought for what they believed in: social justice, that is? Also Gallaudet violated the First Amendment big time and this has to be stopped! It is unconstitutional!!

If Pro Fernandes people wanted dialogues, why didn’t they set up their own blogs to do this? They moderated their own blogs to prevent any dialogue. They have only themselves to blame for their failure to provide venues for their own discusssions. Hijacking the pro-protest blogs to promote their propanganda, oppress and attack other commenters was not appropriate. Just like Fernandes, they had many chances to clean up their act and they blew them, hence the moderation of my blog. Again they have  only themselves to blame for my decision to moderate my blog. Had they conducted themselves decently and respected their boundaries as commenters, the blog would have continued, unmoderated.

Contrary to your assertions, I was on the campus several times and I saw the behavior of the protesters. They were very civilized. They yelled, yes, only because they wanted themselves to be heard. And only because Fernandes, Jordan, and BoT kept ignoring them. There were no attempts on the administration’s side to faciliatate constructive dialogues.

She did not display effective leadership and has caused an environment where it was not pleasant and intimating, people were ignored when they tried to talk to JKF about issues – such as improving ASL issues on the campus (which JKF actually agreed but never did anything about it), ignored blind-deaf students about their safety issues, and did not have a good relationship with parents of deaf students when they complained about the program, and certainly didn’t have it good with fac/staff – it was visible and clear when she was picked to be provost.

She’s had her chances to prove during those 11 years and she did not earn the community’s respect and trust to run Gallaudet.

You’re embarrassed about those people standing up to that?

From what I’ve seen during the protest – those students went through a lot and it wasn’t FUN, until it was over when they partied. They are college students – I’m not going to put them down for partying after the protest was over.

So, yeah – you are right, they REFUSED to let her have ANOTHER chance.

Good for them.

And I’m proud of them and I’m glad I supported them.

And actually, he did fail, so he was right to be worried about it.

I totally agree with you about the unconstitutional censorship of VAX forum. Exactly what did Jordan find objectible that got you warned few times? This is unacceptable in an university where academic freedom is supposed to be embraced and exercised freely. In my classes, I told the students that they can discuss anything freely. Much to my astonishment, many students reported being afraid of reprisals from school administrators. I reassured them that not only I respect their academic freedom of expressions, but also will not report them. Reassured, they were able to discuss freely in the classrooms, but they were reluctant to republish the summaries of their research projects on campus newspaper due to their concerns of backlash. I respected their wishes, but felt it was very unfortunate for the students to feel that they cannot express themselves freely.