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The annual ASL Ball. The Deaf Studies Club organized the ball to promote a positive space for the Deaf community and people learning American Sign Language. DIEGO CAZORLA-GARCIA/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

ASL Ball highlights unity between Deaf Studies faculty, students

Diego Cazorla-Garcia November 6, 2023
Students and faculty gathered together for the Deaf Studies Club's ASL ball, an annual event in which almost everyone speaks exclusively American Sign Language.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Make theater more accessible for the deaf and hard of hearing community | All Things Theater

Maia Penzer April 10, 2023
Captioning technology, as well as interpreters, should be available for every single performance on Broadway and in theaters around the world. There is no excuse as to why translators should not be hired for all performances. It is completely unfair to deny show dates and shows to attend. 
East to West: Sept. 10, 2021

East to West: Sept. 10, 2021

Veronica Thompson September 10, 2021

Content warning: this episode contains discussion of sexual assault. Cloudy days! Today on East to West, we cover sexual harassment accusations against a CFA professor, discuss the current standings...

empty classroom in the college of arts and sciences

Online learning poses new challenges, advantages for faculty with disabilities, those in the Deaf community

Emily Stevenson March 22, 2021
Those with disabilities and in the Deaf community had more flexibility, restraints with pandemic.
A student in professor Andrew Bottom’s American Sign Language 5 class practices signing. Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences will count ASL as any other second language for its foreign language requirement. SOFIA KOYAMA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

CAS changes requirements for ASL as second language

Damian Walsh October 25, 2018
Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences has enacted a new policy updating the conditions for American Sign Language to fulfill CAS’s second language requirement.
Noah Jupe, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt and Millicent Simmonds plays in “A Quiet Place.” The film comes out on Friday. PHOTO COURTESY JONNY COURNOYER/PARAMOUNT PICTURES

INTERVIEW: ‘A Quiet Place’ is John Krasinski’s love letter to his daughters

Jenni Todd April 4, 2018

In “A Quiet Place,” silence equals survival. John Krasinski’s newest film, which follows a family hiding from monsters that hunt by sound, will premier in theaters nationwide Friday. A self-described...

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