Also, to the second comment, most Deaf people I know would probably take more offense at being called 'handicapped' than at having this article written about them.

It's also probably helpful to point out that sentences like '“GALLAUDET UNITE SAME,” which means “unity for Gallaudet.”' is misleading. It makes it sound like they're using some gramatically simple language and then we're refining it into English, when in fact it's a transliteration and then a translation. This would be like some one saying to you in Spanish 'Te amo', and the article being written as 'he said "YOU LOVE", which means "I love you"'. ASL is an inflected, syntactically rich and very dissimilar language from English.

I also think that there are some very good reasons to protest, and that the only reason I. King Jordan (who is Deaf) is the president in the first place is because of a similar protest in the 80s. So, you can call it 'silly' but there is a historical precident for such protests causing meaningful and long lasting change to those students lives and for the future of an institution which is very important in the Deaf world.