Documents Tagged ‘California School for the Deaf’


Robbing the Blind

Archive Entry Date: 03/24/82

Disability Rights Activist, Ken Stein, speaks at a Berkeley City Council meeting

Whose Fault?

Archive Entry Date: 08/81

How Cal bent science and the law to push out the Schools for the Deaf and Blind -- and how blind activists kept pushing back

Building Savers Set to Bag Bear?

Archive Entry Date: 12/24/80

Property vs. Culture - the battle over Douglas Tilden's "Bear Hunt" Sculpture

School for the Deaf Holds its Last Berkeley Graduation

Archive Entry Date: 06/02/80

43 graduating seniors are the last memories deaf students being on the Berkeley site

Stay or Move?

Archive Entry Date: 01/80

A crucial Deaf organization in the Bay Area rallied its members to oppose the relocation of the school

A Coordinated Appeal to 60 Minutes to Investigate

Archive Entry Date: 12/23/79

Advocates for the Schools for the Deaf and the Blind reached out to 60 Minutes, lobbying for an investigative report

Shrouded UC Role in Deaf-Blind Removal

Archive Entry Date: 11/30/79

The second part of an exposé of UC Berkeley's scheme to take over the land

UC Designs on Deaf-Blind Site Span 57 Years

Archive Entry Date: 11/29/1979

Part one of a two-part exposé of UC Berkeley's scheme to acquire the land

Fremont Worse for Deaf/Blind?

Archive Entry Date: 11/07/79

A harsh irony: the new site, in Fremont, was more earthquake-unsafe than the old site bordering Cal

Mistake Behind Move of Deaf and Blind Schools

Archive Entry Date: 11/07/79

A month-long investigation revealed that the rationale for dispossessing the Schools was based on hearsay, not fact

Confidential Special Committee Memo on Acquisition of Schools for Blind and Deaf

Archive Entry Date: 12/04/57

UC wanted to acquire the site but knew it would be tricky, legally and in PR terms

Problems With Deaf-Blind Site Acquisition

Archive Entry Date: 08/26/57

UC's General Counsel was cool on the idea of UC taking over the site, for legal reasons