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Can hearing students go to Gallaudet University? Yes. Although Gallaudet University is billed as the "world's only liberal arts college for the deaf," a small number of hearing students are now admitted each year, as long as they are ASL-proficient. Twenty-two years ago today, I. King Jordan became Gallaudet University's first deaf president. A week earlier, on March 6, 1988, a hearing person had been chosen for the position — the only hearing candidate among a list of qualified other deaf candidates — setting off a week-long student protest called Deaf President Now, which rocked the Deaf world. As a result, the newly selected president and the chairperson of the Board of Trustees stepped down; an agreement was reached that 51% of the Board would from then on be made up of deaf people; and no reprisals were taken against any student or employee involved in the protest. Since 1997, March 13 has marked the beginning of Deaf History Month.
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