Student leaders at Chatham University are mobilizing efforts to protest a tax that would charge Pittsburgh students the equivalent of 1 percent of their tuition.

Over 200 Chatham students held a phonebank Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, calling and emailing city leaders, urging them to oppose the tax.
 
“By mobilizing our campus in the next 48 hours, as students will be doing until Wednesday’s council vote, students are sending a clear message to the Ravenstahl administration and Pittsburgh City Council that we back our institutions in the fight against this illegal and unfair tax,” said Tiffany Tupper, Chatham’s class of 2011 president.
 
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl proposed the “Fair Share Tax” in early November to raise money for the city and avoid another tax on Pittsburgh homeowners, whom he said were already overburdened by taxes.
 
Ravenstahl said the levy would rightfully tax college students who use city public services, but are sheltered from other city taxes by higher education institutions.


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