GALLYBUSTERS

In a letter by Jim McFadden (this guy, I would have thought to make sure all of his facts were straight): The administration of Gallaudet, including the Board of Trustees has to be censured for acts of stupidity, such as putting manure on the lawns where students were putting up their tents. It may have been scheduled, which I doubt, but someone should have changed the schedule.

http://www.signcasts.com/node/19

If you watch this vblog, you see the guy, Ando, state that he arrived at 6:45am, and no one else had arrived yet. However he was puzzled at the maintenance trucks driving around and wondered what they were doing. He found out they were putting in earth juice. Gee… this is a normal activity on Gallaudet campus. Manure, or otherwise known as fertilizer, is used to keep plant life healthy and green. Think of it as their vitamins. Heck, even my mother does it for her garden.

http://www.signcasts.com/node/20

It is now past 8am. If you look closely, you see only two tents. This is an indication that students had not had their tent cities set up yet. Did they go to the person responsible for scheduling (I assume Dwight Benedict, what not with his position in the PPD for these kind of things) and check if there would be any agricultural work around the area they wanted to erect their tents in? I think not. So, to blame the administration “including the Board of Trustees” for trying to deter the protesters from setting up their tent city is just far fetched. The workers had already started early in the morning, the students arrived LATER. The vblogs are clear indications of the timeline. This is again, a ploy to draw pity from people.

Timeline:
Months in advance: PPD schedule October 2nd, 2006: the day to put in fertilizer, gotta keep those trees growing through the fall and winter. Going to be cold!
May 2006: students decide to cease their protest and go home for the summer. Tents were taken down and the campus empty.
Sept 2006: students return to campus, but the grounds remain empty
October 2006: students get the idea of resurrecting the protest again. They choose Monday, October 2 as the day to begin!
October 2, 2006; 6am: PPD arrive to work. They begin giving trees their Earth Juice.
October 2, 2006; 6:45am: Ando arrive and find trees were given their Earth Juice. He realizes Earth Juice is not suitable for humans. How dare PPD feed the trees and intervere with their plan to set up tents!
October 2, 2006; 8am: Ryan Commerson arrives and put up his tent, the second tent of Tent City.

With that timeline, please, please, please tell me it’s still the administration of Gallaudet, including the Board of Trustees’ acts of stupidity.