The Pitt News
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SGB President-elect Zechariah Brown embraces his fellow board member, election competitor and friend Albert Tanjaya after winning last night’s election. Thomas Yang | assistant visual editor
“GRATEFUL, THANKFUL, OVERWHELMED” BROWN WINS SGB PRESIDENCY
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SGB’s Elections Committee, read the results at SGB’s Tuesday night meeting. The Pitt News Staff “I felt like this was so incredibly close. I didn’t Zechariah Brown will serve as president of Pitt’s know how it was going to go until I heard a name,” Student Government Board during the 2019-20 Brown said. school year, after winning 62 percent of the vote In total, 3,394 students, or about 18 percent against Albert Tanjaya Tuesday. of the undergraduate student body, voted in toBrown said he felt “grateful and thankful and day’ s election — nearly identical to last year’s total overwhelmed” when Katie McLaughlin, chair of
of 3,481, but a sharp decrease from 2017’s total of 5,177. Brown, who ran on the Impact Slate, focused on expanding accessibility to SGB through new events titled “Bonding with the Board” during his campaign. He is also interested in continuing and advancing Pitt’s alcohol amnesty policy. He will be joined on the board by fellow slate members Caro-
line Unger, Scott Glaser and Ashima Agarwal. Anaïs Peterson, Victoria Tappan and Eric Macadangdang from the Frontier Slate — the only other slate to field a presidential candidate — will join the board as well, along with Lynn Dang and Cedric Humphrey of the 19Forward Slate. Neither Sean Steinle, who ran with Dang and See Election on page 2