DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, October 17, 2014
-- Batman's special cousin in Toronto
Who is Batman's cousin? It is the Dark Knight, and he is
running in the Toronto Scotiabank Waterfront Marathon this
Sunday. And he will be wearing his famous Batman costume
for the full 26 mile course in the race. What about it?
JP Hernandez, who runs as the Dark Knight, is deaf!
No, JP is not the Dark Knight in the movie, just in
the race.
-- the next Gallaudet president
Current Gallaudet president Alan Hurwitz will retire
in December 2015. This is a little more than a year
ahead. The Gallaudet board of trustees is now getting
busy hunting for the next president. Already we have
a member of Gallaudet alumni serving on the search
committee - Deborah Elliott DeStefano. A big
issue right now - should the next president be deaf
or is it ok to hire a hearing president? The key
thing is to hire the most qualified president to
run Gallaudet in the future years.
-- a shocking comment by a government official
David Freud, or known as Lord Freud, is the British
minister of welfare reform in the United Kingdom.
He gave a speech at a political meeting in which
he said that the deaf and the disabled do not
deserve to earn the minimum wage. This comment
pretty much embarrassed the British Minister
David Cameron who wanted nothing to do with
this welfare reform minister. Freud? Any
connection to the world famous psychiatrist of the
19th and 20th century? Yes, he is the greatgrandson.
Apparently the greatgrandfather would be greatly
embarrassed, too!
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