Gally Daze ~ Ch. 63
Posted by LaRonda on February 8th, 2007While attending Gallaudet in 1984, I became more fluent in ASL and more acclimated to the environment and culture of my Deaf peers….
…One of the most unusual and memorable Deaf-cultural events at Gallaudet back then was the traditional “Rat Funeral”…
…My roommates explained how each freshman class puts something of individual value or special meaning to their group in the small coffin or box with the dead rats. The rats were then buried somewhere on Gallaudet’s campus…
…I had wondered if these memorials were for classmates or professors or donors to the college. I was surprised at how many there were. Once I learned these memorials were actually burial sites for dead rats, I was a little creeped out!…
