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"Dear future reject"
“SAIF Internship Application Update.” I remember staring for a few seconds at the long-awaited Outlook notification before opening my very first decision email on campus. It was my application to be a SAIF Intern curriculum writer; as an experienced curriculum writer, it was probably the best-put-together application I submitted in any ALA space. Although I didn’t have much hope in some of my other applications, I envisioned my spot in that elusive team. Yet for some appallin

Evan Salama
Sep 274 min read


Can the changemakers change anything?
After every student protest or “admin decision”, many of us have become virtually numb to the same comments frequently grumbled all across campus: “ALA doesn’t give its students a voice on campus”. The problem is that when admin is blamed for yet another issue on campus, we are often so quick to join in that many of us forget we have the God-given ability to think for ourselves and consider whether Hakim’s texts on the group chat actually hold any water or not (they probabl

Evan Salama
Aug 233 min read
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