Deaf President Now!

ASL 1140October 3, 2013

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What does DPN stand for ?

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Deaf President Now!

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• Name the four demands that the protesters/activists presented to the Board of Trustees

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• No reprisals against any student, faculty, or staff involved

• The Chairman (Jane Spilman) resign from the Board

• Elisabeth Zinser resign and a Deaf person be selected as president

• The Board of Trustees must constitute a 51% majority of Deaf members

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• The DPN supporters believed that the time had come for a hearing person to run the world’s only university for the deaf and hard of hearing students.

TRUE FALSE

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•False

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• How many of the finalists for the President position was HEARING?

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• One

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•What announcement ignited the DPN protest?

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• The Board announced the selection of Zinser, the only hearing candidate, as the university's seventh president.

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• Name the 3 candidates for the position of President of Gallaudet.

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•Elisabeth Zinser•Dr. I King Jordan•Harvey Corson

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• Name the 4 students that emerged as student leaders in the protest.

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• Greg Hlibok• Bridgetta Bourne• Tim Rarus• Jerry Covell

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• What date was a crucial date in the history of DPN because it was the day of the first fully organized rally?

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•March 1, 1988

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• Approximately _____________ University students, elementary and high school students from the University’s College Programs, staff, faculty, alumni, and members from the local Deaf Community participated in the rally.

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•1,000 – 2,000

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• Jane Spilman supposedly said, “Deaf people are not able to function in a hearing world.”

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• The University’s ___________ __________ became the headquarters for the protest and the DPN Council.

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• Field House

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• Where did the DPN protest happen?• Location: _____________________• City/state: _____________________

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• Gallaudet University (Location)• Washington, D.C. (city/state)

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• Students were wearing buttons that had 3 ½ on them during the protest. What does this mean?

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• Students began wearing buttons with "3 ½" on them, signifying that there were only 3 ½ demands left to go.

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• _________________ was named Gallaudet’s eighth and first deaf president.

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•Dr. I King Jordan

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• The protest was violent, except for not obtaining march permits for all marches, and the protesters did not respect the law.

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•Who became the new chairperson for the Board of Trustees after DPN?

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•Phil Bravin

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• It was stated that. “Deaf people can do anything hearing people can do

EXCEPT _____________________”

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•HEAR