Volume 35, Number 9 · June 2, 1988
The Revolution of the Deaf
By Oliver Sacks
Wednesday morning, March 9: 'Strike at Gallaudet,' 'Deaf Strike for the Deaf,' 'Students Demand Deaf President'—the newspapers are full of these happenings today; they started three days ago, have been steadily building, and now are on the front page of The New York Times. It looks like an amazing story. I have been to Gallaudet College in Washington a couple of times in the past year, and have been steadily getting to know the place. Gallaudet is the only liberal arts college for the deaf in the world, and, moreover, it is the core of the world's deaf community—but, in all its 124 years, it has never had a deaf president.
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