Grad student employees sign union cards
After a year and a half of campaigning and planning, the Graduate Student Organizing Committee is now one step closer to forming a union for graduate student employees at Pitt. The unionization effort...
View ArticleSGB candidates push platform before elections
In the cutthroat political sphere, competing for votes can — and does — bring out the worst in people. After all, it was during the final presidential debate that now-President Donald Trump infamously...
View ArticlePeduto issues 5 executive orders to promote affordable housing
Mayor Bill Peduto signed five executive orders Tuesday and Wednesday to improve affordable housing options and conditions in Pittsburgh. After nine months of consideration, Peduto’s Affordable Housing...
View ArticleLas Palmas closes today, protests Trump
Las Palmas Restaurante will close up shop today, along with Mexican restaurants across the country as part of the “Day Without Immigrants” national protest against President Donald Trump’s immigration...
View ArticlePitt revises faculty, student relationship policy
Pitt’s Faculty Assembly approved a revision to its consensual relationship policy Tuesday that now bans students from engaging in relationships with faculty or staff who are or could be in a position...
View ArticleGov. Tom Wolf proposes flat funds for Pitt
Despite asking for a five percent increase in state funding, Pitt could receive the same amount of money as it did during the 2016-2017 fiscal year. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s $32 billion 2018...
View ArticleAuditor General Eugene DePasquale to audit PWSA
Auditor General Eugene DePasquale announced Thursday that he and his staff have started taking measures to perform an audit on the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority. After a water scare Feb. 1 and...
View ArticleInteractive crime map Feb. 10 – Feb. 15
Feb. 10 4:03 p.m. Sutherland Hall, 3725 Sutherland Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Pitt police arrested a student on charges of possession of a small amount of marijuana and possession of drug...
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Get to know the 2017 SGB slates
42 Stories: (from left) Max Kneis, Ian Callahan, Ami Fall, Maddie Guido. Courtesy of SGB 42 Stories Candidates The aptly named slate proposes 42 changes to Pitt’s campus, including instituting monthly...
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Trump protesters march twice over weekend
President Donald Trump may have taken office a full month ago, but his detractors haven’t lost any of the passion they showed on inauguration day. Marching to the beat of drums, hundreds of protesters...
View ArticleStudents share experiences intersectional experiences, discuss feminism,...
After scrawling words like “empowerment” and “equality and opportunity” on colorful sticky notes, students stuck them to a large blank sheet of paper in Dining Room B of the Union Monday. The prompt...
View ArticleSafety first: Pitt police talk crime awareness with students
While some students admitted that the smell of free pizza lured them into the William Pitt Union Assembly Room Monday afternoon, most stopped by to learn more about campus safety. The Student...
View ArticlePitt faculty talks immigration policy changes, DACA
University administrators gathered in a closed-door meeting in the Barco Law Building Monday afternoon to discuss immigration. Chancellor Patrick Gallagher, Provost Patricia E. Beeson and about 50...
View ArticlePittsburghers demand Toomey town hall meeting
A cardboard cutout of Sen. Pat Toomey stood in place of the actual politician at a makeshift town hall in Station Square Tuesday. Frustrated with Toomey’s decision to not hold a town hall over...
View ArticleActively Moving Forward: grieving students form support group
Halfway through her first semester at Pitt, Selaam Araya’s college experience came to an abrupt halt. Araya’s father, 65, died of an unknown medical cause, and she traveled to Asmara, Eritrea —...
View ArticleMax Kneis wins 2017 SGB presidential election
With a voter turnout more than double the previous election’s, Pitt students elected Max Kneis as the next Student Government Board president Tuesday. Kneis, a junior studying economics and finance,...
View ArticleBacklogged
Thousands of sexual assault kits around the nation have been left untested. One lab in Allegheny County found a short-term solution. Natasha Alexenko is an advocate. Alexenko is an activist. Alexenko...
View ArticleMaggie Nelson reads work on identity, freedom
In a rare reading for the established poet and essayist, Maggie Nelson chose to share an unfinished piece of writing with the audience gathered in Frick Fine Arts Auditorium Thursday night. The...
View ArticleIslamic Center: Investigate motivations in Beltzhoover beating
A member of the Somali Bantu community in Pittsburgh was found in critical condition, beaten and potentially robbed in Beltzhoover at about 5 a.m. Tuesday morning in what the Islamic Center of...
View ArticleWelch adds policy to platform during third public rally
Firing up a crowd of 35 in a Salvation Army gymnasium in Pittsburgh’s West End Saturday, Rev. Richard Freeman wanted to make one point clear about his friend and mayoral candidate, Rev. John Welch....
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