Police moved Friday night to arrest students blocking entrances at Gallaudet University, protesting the incoming president of the nation’s only liberal arts college for the deaf and hearing impaired.

Diane Morton, a faculty member who supports the protest, said university President I. King Jordan authorized District police to make arrests shortly before 7 p.m.

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