Pride Club Invades Student Body
By Matt Kaczmarek
Welcome to the inner world of the SAIS gays. For years it was a small invisible network, estimated at around 5 students per DC class, with a few more in Bologna, but an unofficial (and unscientific) SAIS Observer poll conducted for this article estimated that approximately one in four of this year’s DC first year men publicly identify as gay, possibly even more than that. * * * First Years Elect New SGA Reps
By Pam Mukerji SAIS students elected Niv Elis and Rabeah Sabri as the first-year representatives to the SAIS Student Government Association (SGA) on October 5. They will be responsible for including a first-year voice in the SGA’s mission of representing the interests of the student body. Niv and Rabeah graciously agreed to let me interview them a few weeks after their election.
* * * English as a Second Language
By Ujjal K. Basu Roy
According to the latest SAIS catalogue, 35% of students attending SAIS are non-US citizens. Unless their high school education was conducted in English, all of these students have to take and pass the English proficiency exam before the start of the semester, and those that do not pass must take English as a Second Language (ESL) classes during one or two semesters. Fulfilling the English language requirements at SAIS, even for the most accomplished speaker can be trying, and the experiences of international students in completing them range from humorous to harrowing.
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