Arrests and Defiance at Gallaudet

by E Wayne Ross on October 16, 2006

Inside Higher Ed: Arrests and Defiance at Gallaudet

Washington police arrested more than 130 protesters at Gallaudet University Friday night and early Saturday morning — ending a barricade that had effectively blocked people from entering the campus. But the protesters, who were taken away, fingerprinted and fined $50 each, quickly returned to campus, where they pledged to keep their activism going.

The Chronicle: Police Arrest Protesters and Reopen Gallaudet U.

City police officers arrested 133 protesters blocking the main entrance to Gallaudet University, in Washington, on Friday evening, ending a three-day blockade by students opposed to the choice of the next president for the nation’s only university for the deaf.