Entries from January 2008
Michael Krembel
From Deafweekly January 30, 2008:
RIT PROFESSOR ARRESTED IN CHILD-SEX STING
Rochester Institute of Technology graphic arts professor Michael Krembel was arrested this week in Batavia, N.Y. on felony sex abuse charges involving a minor, reported the Associated Press. A 37-year veteran of RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Krembel was targeted in a sting after reportedly having sex with a minor last June. FBI agents and detectives arrested the 63-year-old in a parking lot Tuesday afternoon after he arranged a meeting with an officer posing online as a teenage boy. “He thought he was going to meet a 14-year-old boy and engage in sexual activity with him,” said Detective Todd Crossett. A Genesee County court judge set bail at $50,000 cash or bond, said the Democrat and Chronicle.
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Categories: RIT/NTID · Useful News
Hi everyone,
Here’s an Action that needs your attention. Many people are having hard time transfer from nursing homes and institutions.
Oh yeah… it applies to deaf people with different disabilities or at old age as well. They sometime ignore our deaf members longer because we can not hear. Sometimes keep us longer because we lack the correct interpreter services or communication needs. I am willing to challenge you on that.
Congressman Hawkin from Iowa said that his brother did not like nursing homes and fought to stay home when he was sick with cancer. The two of them made a deal to keep his deaf brother at home with proper care. Yeah is Congressman Hawkins’s brother is deaf… there is tons of services that will help these people these days and it will save the taxes more money for home services than nursing homes. Don’t let the hearing world take advantage of us all.
This bill will reduce the coverage of the stay to 14 days if person stays for less than 6 months. Who can afford all those hospital funds if they want to go home. This will make hearing people rich and keep us in nursing homes longer. Lets stop this and give us more choice to go home when we want not when they want us to go. And makes our people spend more money… when we have none! Let Dennis Smith know you are against this change…
Take action by clicking on below link:
http://capwiz.com/rochestercdr/issues/alert/?alertid=10893806&queueid=1701856426
Please hurry and support this action….
Thank you,
Dean DeRusso
Deaf Systems Advocate
Regional Center for Independent Living
Advocacy and Independent Living Services for Individuals
497 State Street
Rochester, NY 14608
Sorenson VP: 585 546-7598
VP: 74.39.189.195
Voice Callers 1: (877) 467-4877 ext 07598
Voice Callers 2: 866-327-8877 ext 585.546.7598
TTY: (888) 839-8208
Fax: 585.546.5643
E-Mail: dderusso@rcil.org
Categories: Advocacy · RCIL/CDR
Support Rochester School for the Deaf students’ overseas travel program trip to Greece in April 2008 as RSD and Sprint Relay proudly present the acclaimed motion picture Wrong Game.
Wrong Game is a brand new, action-packed feature film (128 minutes) presented by deaf actors in American Sign Language. Rated PG-13, Wrong Game will be shown at 7 PM on Friday, February 29th, in the Westervelt Auditorium at RSD, 1545 St. Paul Street, Rochester, NY. A voice interpreter will be available for those who need it.
Admission is $5 per person. Doors open at 6 PM. Tickets can only be purchased at the door. There will be no pre-sale tickets available.
The story revolves around a group of strangers who are kidnapped and find themselves in the basement of a mansion. They are forced to play a game in which the winner receives $1 million. For more information about Wrong Game please visit www.aslfilms.com, or click on the thumbnail above to view an event flyer.
Categories: Events · RSD
Are you studying American Sign Language? Do you need practice?
The Rochester Recreation Club of the Deaf is hosting ASL SILENT GAMES this Friday, February 1, from 7 to 8:30 pm at the clubhouse, 1564 Lyell Avenue.
All ASL levels of students, friends, deaf community are welcome. Admission is free for RRCD members, $2 for non-members. Soda and snacks will be sold.
Questions? Contact Colleen at asladie@yahoo.com.
Click the thumbnail above for an event flyer that you can print and post for others to see.
Categories: Events · RRCD
Pepsi employees Darren Therriault (passenger) and Brian Dowling (driver) in “Bob’s House” commercial. (Photo courtesy of Pepsi.)
NTID News - January 29, 2008
Former students from RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf will be featured in a groundbreaking Pepsi commercial during the Super Bowl’s pre-game show.
There will be no sound during the 60-second ad, but the sign language used will be captioned.
Entitled “Bob’s House,” the commercial is a take on a popular joke in the deaf community. Buddies arriving in a neighborhood don’t know which house belongs to their deaf friend. So they honk the car horn until all of the neighbors react to the noise. The house without the reaction must be their friend’s house.
The commercial features Darren Therriault, who received an associate’s degree in electromechanical technology from NTID in 1985 and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from RIT/NTID in 1989. He lives in Schaumburg, Ill. and is an application configuration specialist for Pepsi.
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Categories: RIT/NTID
The Vagina Monologues
Produced by RIT Women’s Center
Performed simultaneously in ASL and English by RIT students, faculty and staff
RIT, Student Alumni Union, Ingle Auditorium
Friday, February 15 and Saturday, February 16
8 p.m.
Tickets are $8 for students, $12 for faculty and staff, $15 for general public – the audience holds 500 and we often sell out so have your friends and family buy early!!
Tickets available at the Gordon Field House Box Office and charge by phone at 585.475.4121.
Box Office open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday Friday, 10am to 6pm; Wednesday, 12pm to 8pm; Saturday 10am to 2pm.
Categories: Events · RIT/NTID
At RSD, where signs among children with hearing loss and their teachers are commonplace, four new, permanent signs with an important message were installed recently.
RSD’s new Drug-Free School Zone signs, placed strategically along the school’s St. Paul Street entrances, have a dual purpose.
“The signs are a reminder to us that the use, sale, possession, or being under the influence, of illegal drugs at RSD and school sponsored activities is prohibited,” said Superintendent/CEO Dr. Harold Mowl, Jr.
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Categories: RSD
The Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester will host an event exploring “Perspectives on Accessibility” on Wednesday, February 20 from 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm. The event is part of the Arts & Cultural Council’s popular Networking Event series.
The evening will feature a panel discussion exploring multiple perspectives on accessibility and inclusion in the arts and culture community. Topics to be discussed include increasing accessibility through design and renovation projects; efforts local arts and cultural organizations are making to create accessibility at events and performances; marketing to diverse audiences; and an exploration of the challenges performers with disabilities face in local venues.
Perspectives on Accessibility
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Arts & Cultural Council – 277 N. Goodman St., Rochester
Free for Arts Council members; $5 for others
RSVP (585) 473-4000
This Networking Event is part of the Arts & Cultural Council’s Cultural Diversity Initiative and was organized with considerable input and participation by the Arts & Cultural Council’s Cultural Diversity Advisory Committee. For more information about this event and about the Council’s Cultural Diversity Initiative, contact Christy Post, Director of Marketing and Strategic Planning at (585) 473-4000, extension 206; or via email at: cpost@artsrochester.org.
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The Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester is a nonprofit corporation serving arts and culture in the 10-county greater Rochester region. Our mission is to strengthen and promote the region’s creative sector through grant programs, constituent services, and special initiatives; and to act as an advocate, planner, and funder, supporting artistic vitality and cultural diversity throughout the region. For more information about our programs and services, visit www.artsrochester.org.
Categories: Events · Useful News
Have you ever thought about becoming a landlord — but didn’t know where to start?
The Housing Council will be offering a Landlord Business Workshop in February with a sign language interpreter.
The workshop will take place over two nights — Tuesday, February 12, and Wednesday, February 13, from 6 to 9 pm each night, at the South Clinton NET Office, 846 South Clinton Avenue (between Meigs and South Goodman Sts.)
Topics to be covered include: overview of housing rules; repair & maintenance; lead paint regulations; screening/selecting tenants; Fair Housing Act; Section 8 & DHS tenants; leases & security deposits; bookkeeping; evictions & Small Claims Court.
Pre-registration with payment ($25 per person) is required. To register over the phone with a debit or credit card, call 546-3700. Or send payment to The Housing Council, 75 College Ave., 4th Floor, Rochester, NY 14607. You can also email workshops@thehousingcouncil.org for more information.
For more information on the Landlord Business Workshop, click HERE.
The Housing Council’s main web page can be found HERE.
The Housing Council also sells a book called Operating Rental Property in Rochester and Monroe County for $25.
Categories: Events · Useful News
Kenny Lerner (left) and Peter Cook
perform in the Flying Words Project.
NTID News - January 24, 2008
Poetry readings aren’t always quaint recitals of rhyming text. And for the performance artist team of Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner, being in the same time zone isn’t even a requirement for them to practice together.
Using high-speed videophone technology perfected just a few years ago, Cook, of Chicago, and Lerner, who teaches history at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, will be practicing together – although miles apart – for their Feb. 2 “Flying Words Project” performance at RIT as part of the Caroline Werner Gannett Project.
Cook, an internationally known poet who is deaf, uses American Sign Language to recite poetry. Lerner, who is hearing, usually vocalizes out of view, resulting in a unique and dynamic performance. The pair met when Cook was a student at RIT in 1986. They began to perform around Rochester, then, with a state grant, across New York and elsewhere.
After 1990, it was hard to them to add new parts to their performance because Cook moved from Rochester. But in 2004, videophones allowed Cook and Lerner to update and practice their show, which they perform several times a year around the country.
You can see the Flying Words Project at 7 p.m. Sat., Feb. 2 at RIT’s Webb Auditorium, Booth Building, 7A. Admission is free.
Source: NTID Website
Categories: Events · RIT/NTID
