Protests Against President-Designate at Gallaudet U. Intensify With Campus Takeover

by E Wayne Ross on October 12, 2006

Inside Higher Ed: http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/10/12/gallaudet

The protest over the selection of Jane K. Fernandes as Gallaudet’s next president — which escalated last week when students took over the main academic building — ratcheted ever higher Wednesday when members of the university’s football team manned the front gates and shut the campus down. They were later joined by hundreds of students who formed a human chain to block anyone trying to enter.

The Chronicle: Protests Against President-Designate at Gallaudet U. Intensify With Campus Takeover

Student protesters sealed off Gallaudet University, the world’s only university for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, on Wednesday in an escalation of their protests against the choice of the institution’s next president.