Gallaudet, Happy With Results, Holds Onto Its 'Interim' President

Gallaudet University, the nation's only liberal-arts institution for the deaf, may have figured out a way to avoid the raging protests that have marked its last two presidential transitions: Keep the current guy.

Benjamin J. Soukup, chairman of Gallaudet's Board of Trustees, sent a campuswide memo on Tuesday in which he stated that the search for a new university president "will not be starting for some time."

The president is Robert R. Davila, who was appointed

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