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Article: The death of a 'strong deaf.' (student activist Carl DuPree killed by Gallaudet University campus security)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- February 11, 1991
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The Death of a 'Strong Deaf'
On November 9, 1990, student activist Carl DuPree was killed by campus security officers at Gallaudet University, where my daughter is a student. Every day since, I have scanned the morning paper and the evening news, waiting for an outcry that has not come. The underlying issues go undiscussed, and all the mechanisms that led to Carl's senseless death remain in place. The student movement that shut the campus down less than three years ago, demanding a deaf president for Gallaudet, is fragmented and uncertain. "We don't know what to do," says my daughter. "We are all in shock."
Like Carl, my daughter is Deaf. At 19, she ...