SGB President Maggie Kennedy is ready for the year ahead
Maggie Kennedy has hardly had a chance to relax since winning Pitt’s Student Government Board election in February. Kennedy, a senior political science and communication rhetoric double major at Pitt,...
View ArticleGet to Know Your Government: Introducing SGB
Most students can’t speak one-on-one with administration to discuss issues most important to them or muster up enough support from the student body to get administration’s attention. This is where the...
View ArticlePitt Board approves budgets for 2018-19 school year
The Pitt Board of Trustees approved the 2019 operating and capital budgets Monday morning, according to an email Chancellor Patrick Gallagher sent to the University community. The new budget — which...
View ArticleRobert Tessier’s plan
Before he graduates in April, Robert Tessier, Pitt Student Government Board’s newest member, plans to ignite human rights activism at Pitt through lecture and discussion. Tessier, who joined SGB more...
View ArticleSGB makes progress on two groups
Looking to emulate the Resident Student Association, Pitt’s Student Government Board is forming a resource and support group for students living off campus. At SGB’s weekly public meeting Tuesday...
View ArticleSGB reflects on fall term
With one new board member and a handful of new committee members joining Student Government Board, the Board took on projects as small as sandwiches and as big as mental illness. From food, laundry and...
View ArticleCity offers hope for rental registry
After delaying voting on its rental registry for months, Pittsburgh City Council gave a preliminary OK to the bill Wednesday, with plans to vote again next week. The City Council, which has been...
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The Pitt News’ 2015 Year in Review
A crackdown on overcrowding, the Student Government Board president’s resignation, and pushes for bike lanes and a professors union — it’s been a busy year for Pitt, and The Pitt News has been there...
View ArticleSGB: What to look for in the spring
With a semester of reorganization behind them, the nine members of Student Government Board are revamping their previous goals to increase education and accessibility for Pitt students this semester....
View ArticleAllocations Committee loses two members, replaces one
Student Government Board announced Friday, Jan. 8, that two Allocations Committee members resigned. Allocations Committee member John Garry resigned to study abroad and Allocations Committee member...
View ArticleSGB amends travel grant rules
Pitt Student Government Board has proposed new limits on the way it grants money to student researchers traveling to conferences. Board Member Lia Petrose introduced a new bill at SGB’s public meeting...
View ArticleSGB Traditions Committee: Rundown
The Student Government Board Traditions Committee held its first meeting of the semester Sunday night in the William Pitt Union. The Traditions Committee, a subgroup of SGB, works to strengthen and...
View ArticleSGB passes new travel grant rules
Looking to get away and get scholarly in April? Student Government Board voted Tuesday to revise its travel grant program to allow for undergraduate researchers to receive grants regardless of their...
View ArticlePolice, students focus of Oakwatch
At this month’s Oakwatch meeting, Oakland residents reviewed the neighborhood’s improvements in community policing and frustrations with transparency over the fall semester. Oakwatch members, who...
View ArticleFood Committee announces new snacks for spring
Students and Sodexo employees celebrated new installments in Pitt’s dining experience — a new Market Central executive chef and Starbucks vending machines — at the first Food Committee meeting of the...
View ArticleFilmmaker, students talk poverty
.After watching “Poverty, Inc.,” a group of Pitt students learned their charitable efforts may not be as helpful as presented. More than 150 students gathered in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium for a...
View ArticlePitt, SGB to rent compost dumpster
This week, Pitt will install its first long-term composting dumpster outside Posvar Hall, Student Government Board environmental chair Joe Streets announced Tuesday. At its weekly public meeting...
View ArticleSGB calls on state to pass budget
More than seven months after Pennsylvania legislators missed their deadline to pass a budget, Pitt Student Government is saying the University has waited long enough. At its public meeting Tuesday,...
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SGB Election 2016: A Student’s Guide
Pitt’s Student Government Board elections this March will mark the end of the longest SGB term in recent history. After passing a referendum in October 2014 to align its term with the academic year...
View ArticleSGB officially launches call for state budget
Using pen, paper and Twitter, Pitt’s Student Government Board is appealing to Pennsylvania legislators to please — after seven months — pass a state budget. At SGB’s weekly meeting, Board members...
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