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Student Government Board President Ryan Young opened the meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 20, by introducing the change in the allocation request deadline to Sunday at midnight to accommodate an increase in student funding requests.
Students, faculty and staff commemorated “I Love Pitt Day” on Wednesday with games, free swag and a protest against the University outside the William Pitt Union.
Standing outside of the Peoples Natural Gas building, protesters gave speeches, chanted and held cardboard signs expressing their frustration with the company and the fossil fuel industry. “We want people to understand that there is a better way,” Ilyas Khan, a sophomore linguistics major at Carnegie Mellon University, said. “We want Peoples Gas to understand.