Time of Tension
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May 1: Gallaudet University's provost, Jane K. Fernandes, is named president-designate, setting off protests by hundreds of students.
May 4: Fernandes says that she will not resign and that she is caught in the middle of a cultural debate over what it means to be "deaf enough." The statement angers protesters.
May 8: Gallaudet's faculty votes a lack of confidence in Fernandes and in the board of trustees' decision to n ame her president.
May 12: The school year ends.
Oct. 3: Protests resume on campus, with some students and faculty walking out of class, demanding that the presidential search be reopened and that there be no reprisals against protesters.
Oct. 5: Protesters take over the main classroom building, blocking doors.
Oct. 11: Members of the football team join protests, blocking the campus gates, shutting down the school.
Oct. 13: More than 130 students are arrested after a three-day shutdown of the campus.
Oct. 16: Gallaudet's faculty votes for Fernandes to resign or be removed as incoming president.
Oct. 18: Gallaudet trustees split in their support for Fernandes, with some asking her to resign.
Wednesday: School officials send a front-end loader to clear a blockaded entrance to a campus building. One student suffers a toe injury.
Yesterday: The board of trustees votes to revoke Fernandes's appointment as the next president of Gallaudet.
