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Mike Kent scored 29 points and grabbed a game-high 15 rebounds to lead visiting Gallaudet to a 78-75 victory over Salisbury State (3-4, 0-2) in a Capital Athletic Conference men's basketball game last night.Salisbury had one final possession to tie the game but failed to get off a shot.Kyle Jefferson (Hammond) led Salisbury State with 28 points. Casey Musick (Cardinal Gibbons) had 12 assists and seven steals.4 Gallaudet is 5-3 overall, 2-0 in the conference.* Goucher 88, Gettysburg 68: David Clark (Catonsville)

WASHINGTON -- Freshman center Predrag Durkovic scored 20 points and junior David Clark added 16 as Goucher (10-9, 4-4) downed Gallaudet (11-7, 3-3), 98-81, last night in a Capital Athletic Conference game.Norfolk State 89, Bowie 63BOWIE -- Daryl Turner, Carnell Penn and Juan Byars scored 17 points each as Norfolk State (18-4, 11-4) defeated host Bowie State (6-15, 3-11) in a Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association game.Dundalk 110, Mont.-Rock. 101Tavon Winborne scored 37 points and Joey Bankins added 31 to lead host Dundalk CC (13-13)

R. Orin Cornett, an educator honored as the inventor of cued speech and former vice president at Gallaudet University, died of heart failure Dec. 17 at his Laurel home. He was 89. An Oklahoma native, he held a doctorate in physics and applied mathematics from the University of Texas, and taught at Oklahoma Baptist, Penn State and Harvard universities. In 1959, he became director of the Division of Higher Education at the U.S. Office of Education, and while reviewing Gallaudet's funding was appalled to learn that most deaf people had sublevel reading skills.

WASHINGTON -- The day after protesters at Gallaudet University, the world's premier university for the deaf, prevailed in their battle to oust the incoming president, they pressed forward with their broader demands, saying that students must have a greater say in the search for a new president and that the next choice should be a more forceful advocate for deaf culture and a strong deaf identity. "We are looking for a person who's sensitive enough, who has respect for all cultures and for American Sign Language," Noah Beckman, president of the student government, signed through an interpreter.

Two of the state's most visible supporters of Maryland's same-sex marriage law will lead weekly rallies at the Gallaudet University campus starting Thursday to urge the reinstatement Angela McCaskill , who was suspended from her job there for signing a petition to put the law on the ballot. "It is the height of hypocrisy for an institution that claims to support individual choice and freedom of expression to deprive that freedom to someone they assume has a different opinion with respect to this policy issue,” said Delman Coates , of Mt. Enon Baptist Church in Prince George's County and Donte Hickman, of Southern Baptist Church in Baltimore in a joint statement.

Gallaudet University's diversity officer has been placed on leave for signing a petition to put Maryland's same-sex marriage law on the ballot, The Washington Blade has  reported . The official, Angela McCaskill, could not be immediately reached for comment. In a statement to The Blade, Galleudet president T. Alan Hurwitz said: “It recently came to my attention that Dr. McCaskill has participated in a legislative initiative that some feel is inappropriate for an individual serving as Chief Diversity Officer; however, other individuals feel differently.

Gallaudet University is asking the group opposing Maryland's same-sex marriage law to take down a new commercial that features a university staff member who was suspended for signing a referendum petition. The new commercial, funded by the Maryland Marriage Alliance, shows footage of Angela McCaskill, the diversity officer who was removed from her post because she signed a petition to put the same-sex marriage law on the November ballot. "The video they are using, the ad, is actually copyrighted by us," said Katherine Murphy, executive director of communications and public relations at Gallaudet in Washington.

Finally, something both sides in Maryland's gay marriage debate can agree on: Gallaudet University should not have suspended its chief diversity officer for signing the petition that put Question 6 on the ballot this November. The heads of the campaigns both for and against the marriage equality law have condemned the university president's decision, and they're right. Angela McCaskill should not face punishment in her job for political activity in her private life, even if signing the petition might seem at odds with her official duties.

WASHINGTON -- Two minutes to tip-off, the women's basketball team huddles for final instructions. The coach does not speak but moves her hands furiously, as if conducting a Sousa march.At Gallaudet University, a liberal arts college for the deaf, the coach shouts with her fingers; the players listen with their eyes.The message: Play our game, give 100 percent and have fun."They get my drift," says Kitty Baldridge, Gallaudet's coach.The team that cannot hear is making quite a racket. Gallaudet (20-4, 12-2)