Hundreds of protesters successfully challenged the university's board of trustees' decision to appoint a presiding judge to run the institution. At the time, Gallaudet had been around for 124 years, and of the six presidents in office since 1864, none had been deaf. Not surprisingly, many people felt it was high time a deaf person was the chief administrator of the world's only liberal arts college for deaf students. The protest, called Deaf President Now (DPN), was nothing short of a revolution. After a week of activities that attracted unprecedented media attention and captured the imagination of millions of people in the United States and around the world, the hearing's designated chair has resigned, as has the hearing's chairman of the board of directors. The board of trustees then chose a deaf person to be president of Gallaudet and, also for the first time, chose another deaf person to lead the university's board of trustees. A few weeks after the DPN revolution at Gallaudet University, hearings began for the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). Deaf people joined forces with the disability rights movement to pass a 1990 civil rights law that would impact access to telecommunications, public events, and interpretation services (Lewin,