At Gallaudet, the protestors win:
The governing board of Gallaudet University revoked the appointment of the school’s incoming president yesterday, giving in to the demands of students, faculty and others whose protests have kept the nation’s premier school for the deaf in turmoil for the past month.
The board, meeting in a special session at a hotel near Dulles International Airport, voted to “terminate” Jane K. Fernandes’s position as president-designate and said she would not take over for President I. King Jordan as planned Jan. 1. The board issued a statement late yesterday afternoon saying the decision was made with “much regret and pain.” …
The news set off a wild celebration at Gallaudet’s Northeast Washington campus yesterday afternoon, with protest leaders cheering and embracing one another. Their reaction also showed the depth of bitterness some feel toward Fernandes, as protesters shredded a large effigy of her and then set it on fire.