Credibillity Gaps - Chasms of Denials

Are people actually against the concept of equal access on the distribution of information such as transcripts and videos so people can make an *informed* decision on what actually transpired between two seemingly opposing parties in a meeting on a magnitude as serious as this?

The issue is not about requesting a simple transcript beforehand per se but about assuring that factual reporting from both sides of the parties involved do take place so as not allow one or the other to "cherry pick" information. The transcript and video documentation would force both parties on not to subvert each other's tactics should there be any.

This is not an uncomplicated issue on what's going on here, folks. It's vast. It has many agendas. It's loopy. It's ugly. It is politically complicated. And people all want a part of the pie. And to the FSSA credits, they sometime sound like chickens running around saying the sky is falling. And now we're seeing students run around all wild-eyed saying they're purposely being poisoned by lawn fertilizers by the IJK's secret police is even more nuttier. Talk about hyper-sensitivy here where common sense is practically thrown out of the window here, folks.

I and many others are not interested in wild eyed emotions, conspiracy theories, gossips, rumours, mud-slingings, petty 5th 2nd grade name callings, character assassinations, and fantastical claims of utter oppresion that would rival even the Gulag prisons in Russia. What I and many, many others are interested in is the pure, unmitigated facts that can easily be substantiated, corroborated and confirmed to everybody's satisfaction. If you let your emotions get the best of you in so many ways on so many levels, ya'll not going to succeed. PERIOD!

Transcripts and video-taping documentations are exactly what both parties need. This is done to ensure that proper documentation takes place on who said what in light of the context being discussed in a meeting. This is history in the making. Document it correctly and without bias. This is exactly what courts do to prevent any misunderstandings on what was actually said or done by having court reporters do their shorthand thing and record what was said.

This is an historical event that has taken place and continues to do so. And what you guys are going to end up doing is explain forever to the outside world who have no concept or idea of what the deaf/hh/Deaf community is like and they will always ask why on earth are deaf and hard of hearing students upset over the fact that a first ever deaf woman was selected for president of Gallaudet University who was, not surprisingly, selected by a mostly deaf BoTs.

If the FSSA want greater credibility and believability in their actions and reporting to the masses, they had better provide something a bit more substantial with their own reports on their meetings between their own FSSA and Gally Admins. The same for Gally Admins, too. Everybody will have their own reasons for suspicions either against the FSSA or against the Admins. But the various, long standing issues do need to be addressed in the most cordial and productive way. That's a given. Everybody knows that.

Both parties will have to agree to this method if both are going to meet or else this will continue on spiraling downward... hurting everybody in the process. We all must share this burden.

Each and everyone of you, me, the Gallaudet University admins, alumni, students, staff, faculty members along with the ingrained politics and culture deeply rooted for years and years and years from all sides are the source of the blame for this galling and ugly event that took place this past May and it continues to this day. Nobody wanted to see this happen. But it did. This is not unity folks. This is emotion running amok like a banshee. Now, everybody will have to roll up their sleeves up, pitch in and help clean up this god-forsaken mess that everybody help create in the first place!

Yes, everybody.