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So it’s now official - Jane  K Fernandes will not be able to lead Gallaudet.

So what kind of lesson is learned? How can a repeat be avoided?

I hope Congress is taking notice.

I hope prospective employers are taking notice.

I hope prospective students are taking notice.

It is my understanding that Board of Trustees did a screw up job selecting the final 3 (one of the candidates only has a Master’s Degree when the job description calls for a Doctorate Degree). But it’s also my understanding that the protestors created a climate of fear, intimidation, and false rumors.

This may be yet another “historical” event at Gallaudet, but at a very high negative price.

I hope the next president-elect clearly has a plan to soothe the raw feelings now and yet help usher Gallaudent to making changes to ensure long-term survival.

Meantime, fire up the competition! Why should deaf students settle for the Big 3 (CSUN, RIT, Gallaudet)?

Poor woman. But I guess with the “car-be-que” and “bus-a-cue” it was only a matter of time:

A 56-year-old physically disabled woman was being treated in the burns unit of a Paris hospital yesterday after the bus she was travelling in was set alight by youths in the northern suburb of Sevran.

The driver, who helped the woman off the bus as other passengers escaped through a rear door, was taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation. “We are treating this as attempted manslaughter,” a police spokesman said.

6 million Jews for 20 million Muslims - how’s that trade coming along, Europe?

From the Department of Ouch

Even with the unpopular quagmire Iraq war, American college campuses have been rather calm in recent years.  With one glaring exception: Gallaudet University, the federally-funded, somewhat-federally-run deaf university in Washington.
   As of this week, confrontations between authorities and protesting students at Gallaudet have resulted in the injury of (at least) one student, arrests of several, and the place effectively being shut down for days.  And it’s not the first such time there.  18 years ago, similar protests forced out newly-named college president Elizabeth Zinser almost as soon as she was appointed.
   What’s this only-in-Washington circus all about?  Like in 1988, it’s about student demands that any president of the deaf college himself be deaf. 
   It’s bizarre in many ways.  First, it’s bizarre that Gallaudet still exists at all in an era in which handicapped people are seeking equal access to jobs in America and largely getting them if they can do them.  It’s bizarre that Gallaudet still exists 20 years after a time when it wasn’t unheard of to see a blind student in a law school at a regular college.  But second, it’s bizarre that Gallaudet students want discrimination against the non-deaf (as administrators at Gallaudet) and equal job opportunities for themselves when they graduate.
   The answer isn’t to forcibly reopen Gallaudet with a massive police presence if necessary or a deaf president to pacify the protesting students.  The answer is to shut the place down and tell its students to go to regular colleges in their home states.

This website has the concise instructions on how to wipe out the information in your cell phone before you donate or sell.

Just pick out the Manufacturer and the Phone Model and it will present simple instructions in .pdf.

Cell Phone Data Eraser

Very handy because we’re switching from Sidekick II to Treo 600 under T-Mobile.

What will I do with the Sidekick II?  Probably sell on ebay. It works, just that we’re tired of it.

Recognize this pattern:

United Kingdom:‘Unclean’ guide dog banned by Muslim cab driver

Australia:Muslim cabbies refusing the blind and drinkers

Norway: Blind People Rejected by Muslim Taxi Drivers

Now substitute “blind guide dogs” for “hearing guide dogs”. Wouldn’t surprise me if it already happened.

If the muslims taxi drivers are afraid of dogs, booze, gays, then kindly find another line of employment. Simple as that.

Taxi drivers cannot be choosy. It’s the law.