Last night APPLE held its first slating caucus. Attendees: possible Student Advocate Salaam, possible Executive Tony, and possible Executive Sajid.

Of the three, Tony was the most impressive, if somewhat overeager. Plus he seems to want to refocus the Academic Affairs office 180 degrees, which the numerous AA Directors in the room weren't too happy with. Sajid seems to be running because his friends want him to, which is very bad.

Salaam was the one that bothered me the most. She's an SJP member and hardcore Palestinian, so we wanted one simple statement from her: 'My personal views will not affect my work in SAO.' We didn't get that. Statements like 'I'm a person first and Student Advocate seventy-seventh' weren't very comforting.

Plus she declared herself practically off SJP, but was at the rally today holding a sign for them. Hmph.

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