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SBG SEEKS TO SQUANDER SMOKING ON CAMPUS
EXTINGUISHING DANGER AT SAFETY FAIR
Emily Wolfe
For The Pitt News West Virginia University implemented a tobacco-free policy in 2013, and in the past two years, Penn State and the University of Pennsylvania have followed suit. Now, Pitt may join them. At Tuesday’s Student Government Board meeting, Wellness Committee Chair Eric Macadangdang said the committee hopes to make Pitt the next campus to ban tobacco products. Macadangdang described the tobaccofree initiative as “following in the footsteps” of those other universities. “We believe that Pitt and Pittsburgh as a city should be on the forefront of leading a progressive and healthy lifestyle for students,” he said. “We’re not condemning smoking, we’re not condemning smokers, we’re just saying that on University property we want to maintain the most healthy environment we can.” Macadangdang and board member Zechariah Brown met with Student Health Advisory Board President Chris DeHaven on Tuesday to craft a plan to garner student and faculty support to go tobacco-free. Their
Pitt’s Department of Environmental Health and Safety demonstrates proper fire extinguisher handling at SGB’s Fall Safety Fair Tuesday afternoon. Anas Dighriri | staff photographer
SBG HOSTS BI-ANNUAL SAFETY FAIR
Janine Faust and Ashley Priore
to do it right,” the sophomore neuroscience major said afterward. “It was actually fine. I was surprised.” The Pitt News Staff The WPU lawn was not actually ablaze In a corner of the William Pitt Union Lawn, a small fire raged. Anameeka Singh — Singh, a Resident Assistant at Sutherland hefted up the fire extinguisher she’d been West, was participating in mandatory fire handed and put it out with a gusty white safety training for RAs run by Pitt’s Department of Environmental Health and Safety at cloud of liquid carbon dioxide. See SBG on page 2 “I was kind of terrified that I wasn’t going the 2018 Fall Safety Fair. Several other City
and University groups turned out on Tuesday afternoon, including Healthy Ride, Pitt Police and OCC Pitt to educate members of the Pitt community about how to stay safe on campus and beyond. The event was hosted by the Student Government Board and the Office of Community and Governmental Relations. See Safety Fair on page 2