The Pitt News
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SGB PENS OPEN LETTER URGING PASSAGE OF GUN REFORM LEGISLATION
BOOT BUGGY
Emily Drzymalski Staff Writer
L.L. Bean set up a pop-up shop and their “Bootmobile” in the William Pitt Union driveway Monday and Tuesday. Romita Das | staff photographer
FOOD ROBOT PILOT TESTING BEGINS ON LOWER CAMPUS Erica Guthrie
from the fleet of 25 bots via Starship’s app for a flat delivery fee of $1.99. At Starship Technologies announced launch time, students could order from Tuesday that its food robots, which the Forbes Street Market, Sub Connechave already been seen around Oakland tion in the William Pitt Union or Comin their pilot phase, have begun com- mon Grounds in Towers Lobby. As of Tuesday, orders can only be pleting deliveries to students on lower paid for via credit or debit card, but Pitt campus. Students can now order delivery Dining said in a tweet that they were Assistant News Editor
looking to expand payment options soon to include Dining Dollars, Panther Funds and Lunch Money. Testing launched in October but was briefly paused starting Oct. 21 after Emily Ackerman, a graduate student who uses a wheelchair, posted a comSee Robots on page 2
Student Government Board’s meeting Tuesday night began with a moment of silence offered by President Zechariah Brown to honor the one-year commemoration of the Tree of Life massacre. The massacre, the deadliest ever against the Jewish community in the United States, took the lives of 11 Jewish worshippers attending Saturday services across the Squirrel Hill synagogue’s three different congregations. But the board was not silent Tuesday night about federal gun control legislation, encouraging students to sign its Tuesday letter to Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., to take action on several pending bills. SGB member Scott Glaser said in his board report that he hopes the letter brings attention to this important issue. “The nice thing about this letter is that there’s a way for all of you to sign on and feel like you’re a part of the letter as well,” Glaser said. “To urge them that their efforts to pass legislation in the past has not been enough, and we need to do more in the future.” The letter called for both senators to vote in favor of legislation to require universal background checks, ban high-capacity magazines and reinstate an assault weapons ban. It further called on See SGB on page 3