Just by being the symbolic first Deaf president at Gallaudet, Jordan showed Deaf students that they could do far more than the traditional kinds of jobs running noisy machinery or teaching Deaf kids.
Meloyde Batten-Mickens, executive director of facilities at Gallaudet, says Mr. Lewis had mentioned he had been in trouble, but didn't provide specifics until more recently, when he told her the full story.
As both a student at and an employee of Gallaudet University, I am repulsed and infuriated by the belligerent and uncivilized behavior of the anti-Gallaudet forces who characterize themselves as the saviors of Gallaudet...
While I respect and support their free speech rights, just as I respect and support the right of Neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen to express themselves, I do not respect and support the anti-Gallaudet forces' behavior because that behavior is keeping me and others who share my position from leading the lives we have chosen: to attend classes and work at Gallaudet.