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The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

Mayor Bill Peduto spoke about his plans for the community at Chatham University Thursday night. (Photo by Salina Pressimone | Contributing Editor)

Peduto promotes Pittsburgh community initiatives

Mayor Bill Peduto prioritizes building up Pittsburgh communities, and thinks Amazon might soon be able to help with this growth at a local level, he said Thursday night. “What will make Pittsburgh...

SGB president Max Kneis said it took two years to finalizing the new “Rave guardian app” at Tuesday’s meeting. (Photo by Aaron Schoen | Staff Photographer)

SGB announces new student safety measures

By Rose Luder | Staff Writer November 29, 2017

Student Government Board member Ian Callahan announced at Tuesday’s meeting that the Rave Guardian app — an app created by Rave Mobile Safety that connects users with local security resources — is...

(Photo by Roger Tu | Staff Photographer)

SGB Commends Student Counter-protesters

By Madeline Gavatorta | For The Pitt News September 20, 2017

Taking the platform in Nordy’s Place Tuesday night, Student Government Board President Max Kneis started with a statement about Monday’s protest outside of Litchfield Towers. “Intolerance and...

SGB introduced two resolutions to support DACA students and to encourage State pass the funding for Pitt. (Photo by Sarah Cutshall | Staff Photographer)

SGB introduces resolutions on DACA, state funding

By Madeline Gavatorta | For The Pitt News September 13, 2017

Pitt Student Government Board introduced its first two resolutions of the year Tuesday, calling on elected officials to support both DACA recipients and state funding for Pitt. The first resolution...

Justin Horowitz speaks at the second last SGB meeting of the semester. Kyleen Considine | Staff Photographer

SGB promises online NYT subscriptions, forms committees

By Nolan Roosa / Staff Writer April 11, 2017

After promising changes to the Student Government Board governing code all year, SGB introduced four bills last night that would create new committees and provide students with online New York Times memberships. Two...

Student Government Board discussed adding a reading day to Pitt's academic schedule during its weekly meeting on Tuesday, April 4. Stephen Caruso | Assistant Visual Editor

SGB pushes reading day initiative

By Nolan Roosa / Staff Writer April 5, 2017

With only two meetings left in the semester, SGB made strides on Tuesday night to institute changes for the next academic school year, outlining future changes to the governing code and pushing their reading...

Pitt senior and Student Government Board Vice President Rohit Anand speaks at a SGB meeting Tuesday night, March 28. Kyleen Considine | Staff Photographer

SGB town hall sees low turnout

By Nolan Roosa / Staff Writer March 29, 2017

Student Government Board’s monthly town hall lasted only 15 minutes Tuesday night, a change from the typical hour-long meeting. Nordy’s Place was nearly empty while board members reminded the few...

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