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Day 5: Thursday March 10
Greg Hlibok, one of the four student leaders, appeared on ABC's "Good Morning America." Amid speculation that Zinser and Spilman were [video still of flat tire on a schoolbus] going to force their way onto campus, the students drove Gallaudet school buses to the gates of the campus and deflated the tires.

Rallies were held all day. Moral and monetary support continued to flow in from a variety of sources. Students from the National Technical Institute of the Deaf in Rochester, N.Y., and other schools for deaf students arrived in bus loads, and local and national businesses donated supplies and money—including a check for $5,000 from the American Postal Workers Union hand-delivered by the union's president, Moe Biller.

[I. King Jordan retracts statement from the
previous day] That afternoon, in front of Chapel Hall and hundreds of onlookers, I. King Jordan retracted his support for the Board's decision to appoint Zinser. After giving the matter much thought, he told the onlookers that he now fully supported the four demands set forth by the students, and felt the protest was completely justified.

That night Zinser announced her resignation.

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