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Mayor admits a 'certain amount of unfairness' with student tax proposal

Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said there’s “a certain amount of unfairness” to his proposed Fair Share Tax.

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City college students petition mayor's Fair Share Tax

College students across Pittsburgh challenged Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s...

Shull wins SGB presidency

Current Student Government Board member Charlie Shull defeated opponent Justin Romeo 1410-701 in today's voting for the presidential election. The following people won their...

Obama's Asia trip yields few concrete anchievements

OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — President Barack Obama ended his trip to Asia on Thursday much as he'd begun it a week earlier, surrounded by U.S. forces as he sought to project...

Spending on health effects of obesity to quadruple, study says

WASHINGTON — Spending to treat the health effects of obesity, $86 billion last year, will quadruple over the next decade, and almost half of U.S. adults will be obese by 2018,...

SGB candidates spend hundreds on campaigns

The passage of the new Student Government Board Elections Code last month took away one incentive for people to vote: free food.

Gone too are the days when candidates...

SGB presidential candidates differ in experience

Students can cast their votes for Student Government Board president and Board members from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. today. Before voting on my.pitt.edu, read about presidential...

SGB gives voting reminder, discusses tuition tax

Student Government Board is urging students to vote tomorrow not just on candidates, but also on grammatical changes to the group’s constitution.

SGB president Kevin...

Miscommunication keeps student from running for SGB

He’s just Scott McEvoy.

Though he’d like to be introduced as Board member Scott McEvoy, a miscommunication kept him out of the race for Student Government Board.

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Alumni Association asks members to oppose tuition tax

The Pitt Alumni Association urged alumni to oppose Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s proposed tax on college tuition.

The association sent an e-mail to its members yesterday on...

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Shull wins presidency with 13 percent voter turnout

With a 13 percent voter turnout, Pitt students elected Charlie Shull to be the next Student Government Board president.

Shull took 67 percent of the votes for board president yesterday, receiving 709 more votes than his sole opponent, Justin Romeo.

The number of students voting in the election decreased by 43 percent from last year. Out of the 16,848 undergraduate, non-College of General Studies students eligible to vote, 2,211 people submitted an online ballot.

Despite his loss, Romeo embraced Shull with a hug to congratulate him on the win.

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