The Emmy-nominated Apple Original Film "Deaf President Now!" chronicles the weeklong uproar that engulfed Gallaudet University sparked by the March 6, 1988 announcement that its board had hired another hearing person to serve as its president. Students at the world’s only university for the deaf rose up to demand that the first deaf person be named its leader.   After initial defiance by the incoming president and the college’s board members, all of whom were not hearing impaired, they reversed course seven days later. Amid resignations by the board chairwoman and the woman with a nursing background she had initially defended as the best person to run the then 124-year-old institution, I. KING JORDAN, Ph.D., a deaf man who was the dean of the university’s College of Arts and Sciences, was

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