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1. In 1988, Gallaudet students and faculty staged a strike, locking down the campus to protest the selection of a new president who was hearing over qualified applicants who were deaf.
2. Who established Gallaudet University; at that time called Gallaudet College?
3. Thomas Gallaudet, a Quaker minister, was moved to start the first School for the Deaf in the US after meeting a local deaf girl. He was concerned that her lack of language meant she couldn't pursue religious studies. There is a dormitory at Gallaudet named for her. Who was she?
4. When Thomas Gallaudet went searching for a method to teach deaf pupils, he first considered the oral (speaking and lipreading only) method used by the Braidwood family in England, but couldn't bring it back to the US because the Braidwoods considered their method a trade secret.
Next Gallaudet went to France, where there were rumors of great success using a manual language developed by monks under a vow of silence, and modified by the needs of the students, and the local signs they brought with them to the school to make a grammatically complete, full-fledged language known as French Sign Language.
One of the teachers at the school agreed to return to the US with Gallaudet to help with the new school. His name was Laurent Clerc. On the ship back to the US, Clerc taught Gallaudet sign language, and Gallaudet taught Clerc, what?
5. There are a number of traditions associated with each class at Gallaudet. Among other things, what do the freshmen do each year?
6. What class is NOT required at Gallaudet?
7. On the largest building on campus, there is a door shaped something like a coffin lid, and called "The Coffin Door." There is a rumor that a freshman who walks through it will not graduate.
8. Can you apply to Gallaudet if you are hearing?
9. Where in the US is Gallaudet University located?
10. What is Gallaudet's mascot?
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