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Thanks to technology, treasure hunting is back.

It’s called geocaching now, and Chris Stevenson, a 26-year-old Ontario native, has unearthed bounty just beyond the Ca-thedral on Schenley Park’s grounds.

“I’ve always had that ‘explorer’s itch’

but never really had a reason to,” Steven-son said, as he explained his reasoning for getting involved with geocaching.

Geocaching is an outdoor, virtual scavenger hunt that requires the use of GPS-enabled devices, according to Pitt’s Student A! airs website. A geocacher navi-gates to a specifi c set of GPS coordinates and attempts to fi nd the geocache — or container with a visitor’s log and occa-

sionally a reward — hidden at a specifi c location. A geocacher can search for cache coordinates by entering the location of where they want to explore on the geocach-ing o" cial website, www.geocaching.com.

There are more than two million “active geocaches” worldwide, according to the website, and six million people geocaching.

Hidden TreasuresGet outdoors with geocaching

Jessica Iacullo Staff Writer

Geocaches can be any type of item, and geocachers can hide them anywhere in the world for others to fi nd. | MCT Campus

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NEWSSTUDENT GOVERNMENTSTUDENT GOVERNMENT

If a proposed Student Government Board referendum passes, the next Board could take on a three-semester term.

At its public meeting on Tuesday, the Student Government Board moved to include a referendum on the ballot that would change its current term, which runs from the first day of spring semester classes to the day before the first day of spring semester classes, to instead follow the academic calendar year.

The Board voted at the public meet-ing to include the referendum on the ballot. The referendum will pass if three percent of the student body, or roughly

600 hundred students, votes in favor of the referendum.

According to the proposed referen-dum, annual elections would be take place in February or March instead of November. The Board Presidents’ and Board members’ terms would officially begin on the last day of the spring se-mester.

The Board intends to schedule the referendum on Oct. 9, so that incoming candidates will have time before elec-tion packets are due to decide whether or not they want to join a Board that will be in office for a year and a half.

The Board discussed the idea of the referendum, which would take effect in 2015, during a private meeting on Friday, Aug. 12.

After the transition year, term

lengths will be one year long. Nites said election packets will be available on Sept. 23. Barney said the packets will be due Oct. 15 at 5 p.m.

Elections Code Chair Lauren Bar-ney raised a potential problem with the switch during the meeting.

Barney said seniors would be voting for a new Board during the spring be-fore graduation, so many of those vot-ers would no longer be students by the time the Board takes office. She added that incoming freshman would not be able to vote for the Board members who would be in office during their first year.

“[Freshman] voices aren’t being heard, and old voices are,” Barney said.

Board Member Abby Zurschmit said she thinks the action would give fresh-men an opportunity to run and also dis-

cussed Barney’s point during open floor.Although freshmen would not be

able to vote, Zurschmit said they would be able to run for Board in the spring.

“It would open the door for younger people to run, but close the door for some people to vote,” Zurschmit said.

In other action:The Board amended the Elections

Code and then voted on the code, mak-ing the changes effective for this year’s election.

Nites asked Barney if she was “okay” with each of the changes before the Board voted on the amendments.

Barney said she approved of, but did not personally support, the Board’s

Board discusses upcoming elections, terms lengthsAbbey Reighard

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Chancellor Patrick Gallagher hung a wreath near Forbes Avenue yesterday, but Christ-mas isn’t for nearly another 100 days.

Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars followed Pitt ROTC students to watch as Gallagher hung a wreath under the VFW plaque on the corner of Forbes Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard to mark the 100th an-niversary of the formation of Pittsburgh’s VFW branch. Sept. 14-17 marks the opening of the Pittsburgh sect of the oldest organi-zation of U.S. war veterans in the country.

VFW Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief and Pitt alumnus John A. Biedrzycki Jr. spoke about the organization’s importance.

“The Veterans of Fforeign Wars is about service. It’s about service to veterans,” Biedrzycki said. “It’s about helping our country and the citizens remember the sacrifi ce made by our veterans.”

The VFW’s aid initiatives include com-munity service, advocating for veterans’

rights and care and acting as a support organization for veterans who have served in foreign wars, according to an informa-tion booklet provided at the ceremony.

Biedrzycki, who will command 1.9 mil-lion members in 7,000 di! erent VFW units across 18 total countries next year when he takes the role of Commander-in-Chief, said he thought the ceremony was a fi tting trib-ute to Pittsburgh’s fi rst VFW encampment.

“It was a tremendous commemoration of our predecessors, who met in this ho-tel to come together and stick together to make life better for veterans,” Biedrzycki said.

District Commander John McDowell, who served in Korea from 1967-1970 in the 101st Airborne Division, described the event as “kind of special.”

“It is an international organization,” McDowell said. “We have posts all over the world. But because this one was founded right here in Pittsburgh, it’s really special.”

Veterans honored at VFW centennial ceremonyConor McAteer

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Chancellor Gallagher opened and closed the ceremony on Tuesday. Subhana Chaudhri | Staff Photographer

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ALLOCATIONS

Club Tennis Team: $1169.52

UPTV-21: $1675.81

change to section 207.03 of the Elec-tions Code. The change states that cur-rent Board members running for re-election cannot endorse themselves on official occasions, but they can endorse themselves during unofficial occasions.

Board member Andrew Abboud said the Board decided to change the sec-tion after they consulted Pitt Office of General Counsel legal services. Abboud said the members of the legal service suggested that restricting Board mem-bers running for SGB from endorsing themselves at unofficial events could be ruled as an infringment on the First Amendment.

Barney said the section was her “toughest one,” because she is afraid of biases during the election, but added that she will make sure she and the rest of the Elections Committee look out for candidate bias.

“If the Board member is showing a bias , we’ll try to curb that,” Barney said.

Allocations:Club Tennis Team requested

$2,078.08 to send two teams to a tour-nament in New Jersey. The Board ap-proved $1,169.52 and denied $908.56, in line with the allocations recommen-dation.

UPTV 21 requested $1,675.81 for new hardware and software. The Board ap-proved in full, in line with the alloca-tions recommendation.

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OPINIONSPublic emails warrant the ‘Right-to-Know’

EDITORIALEDITORIAL

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sued the state Monday over the execu-tive branch’s current email reten-tion policy.

In Commonwealth Court, the newspaper asked a judge to end the current policy, in which public of-fi cials’ are allowed to permanently destroy their emails after only fi ve days. Appealing to Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Law, the Post-Gazette has asked for the state to preserve public emails for at least two years.

The Right-to-Know Law as-serts that the state must provide “access to public information, for a designated open-records o! cer in each Commonwealth agency, local agency, judicial agency and legislative agency.”

With that in mind, the Post-Gazette certainly has a case here — the state would be hard-pressed to prove that emails sent by civil servants while on the job don’t constitute “public information.” After all, the will of the public doesn’t just come to an end after laws are passed — it is up to civil servants to make sure the laws are then properly administered.

But when Ron Tomalis, the former special adviser on higher education to governor Corbett, can only produce fi ve total emails sent in a year’s time, it is certainly hard for the public to know exactly what he was doing, if anything.

Coincidentally, Tomalis re-signed two weeks after the Post-Gazette reported on his lack of emails — they appealed to the Right-to-Know Law then as well.

According to the Post-Gazette, Acting Education Department Secretary Carolyn Dumaresq

claimed that she and her agency co-workers “delete and cleanse” their emails on a nightly basis.

State o! cials like Dan Egan, spokesman for the Pennsylvania O! ce of Administration, claim that the deletion of emails makes it easier to locate relevant records.

Still, only fi ve total emails sent in one year calls for concern — and for good reason.

For the executive branch, or more specifi cally the bureaucracy, to implement policy e" ectively, it must be held accountable. If there’s no accountability, there’s no incen-tive to keep the bureaucracy from straying from policy or just deviat-ing from the public will in general.

So, who holds the bureaucracy in check?

A large part of this job belongs to the legislative branch, as they ap-point members of the bureaucracy and allocate funding to di" erent agencies. But, this responsibility also falls on media outlets like the Post-Gazette. Media outlets keep track of government o! cials and agents to make sure that they are acting on the public’s behalf. Obvi-ously, it’s hard to play watchdog if there’s nothing there to see.

So, because of the current email retention policy, news outlets like the Post-Gazette cannot properly report on government action — or inaction — to their constituency, which undermines the e" ective implementation of policy as it doesn’t provide adequate pressure on civil servants to do so.

Thus, as trivial as emails may seem, a win for the Post-Gazette will equate to a win for govern-ment e! ciency and, in a way, for the democratic process.

Students and the technology sec-tor alike have been abuzz with the announcement of the Apple Watch, which is already creating quite a buzz in the marketplace.

Such excitement is certainly warranted. Not only is this the fi rst Apple product without the “i” prefi x, but through its mu-sic storage capabilities, it also marks the end of the era of the iPod — the device that trans-formed the portable music in-dustry.

But “smartwatches” aren’t the only market in which Apple

has been making moves lately — this May, it agreed to purchase Beats Electronics LLC, the com-pany behind the popular “Beats by Dre” headphones.

To borrow from SAT anal-ogy lingo, Beats Electronics is to headphones what Apple is to portable music. With the production of the fi rst iPod in 2001, Apple drew attention, and consumers to the entire market with each new release and now comprises over 65 percent of market share.

Similarly, the production of Beats headphones drove growth in the premium headphones market, of which Beats Electron-

ics now controls 57 percent. So, just as white iPod headphones were easily spotted publicly over the past decades, the signature “b” on Beats headphones are now ubiquitous.

The development is certainly not welcome by competitors in the premium headphones mar-ket. Once-dominating fi rms like Bose and Sony are now facing serious competition.

Rather than competing di-rectly with Beats Electronics, these fi rms are choosing to use legal mechanisms to drive these new products out of the market.

Not quite music to my earsThe problem with intellectual property laws

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Unfortunately, this is merely symptomatic of larger problems with the overprotec-tion of intellectual property — in this case, patents.

This past July , Bose took legal action against Beats Electronics for its alleged violation of fi ve Bose patents on noise-cancelling technology.

Bose was the pioneer of headphone technology when it released its Quiet-Comfort headphones in 2000. This law-suit isn’t new ground for the fi rm — it took similar action in 2008 against Phitek Systems Ltd. and more recently against Monster Cable Products Inc. this past February.

Given that Beats Electronics controls more than half of the market for premium headphones, the question arises as to why Bose decided to sue now rather than earlier. The reason, as you might have already guessed, is because Apple is in

the process of buying the company.In this situation, two important condi-

tions arise: First, the legal department at Beats Electronics is currently very busy working on the buyout, which means that they have less resources to devote to fi ghting a patent infringement law-suit. Because of uncertainty about the outcome of legal disputes, fi rms that are being bought out try to avoid legal battles.

Both of these conditions imply that Beats Electronics will be more likely to settle than they previously would have been. By choosing to sue now, Bose is maximizing its legal payout from a patent infringement lawsuit.

Unfortunately, such behavior is the norm rather than the exception. As econ-omists Michele Boldrin and David Levine describe in their book “Against Intellec-tual Monopoly,” big fi rms often amass large amounts of patents that function like ammunition in large legal disputes.

Patents are advantageous to hold for

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two reasons: First, they give fi rms the abil-ity to establish and maintain a monopoly on their patented production. Addition-ally, fi rms can use them for defense.

When charged with patent infringe-ment from another company, fi rms can claim their products under a di" erent, yet very similar patent that they own. Also, holding patents that can be used to sue other companies for patent infringement will prevent them from suing the fi rst fi rm. In that, it initiates a “If you sue me, I’ll sue you” type of mentality.”

Not only does the bulky legal institu-tion of intellectual property protection cause a lot of unnecessary legal work on the part of fi rms, it also encourages rent-seeking and discourages innovation. In this situation, rather than competing directly with Beats Electronics, Bose is choosing to fl ex its legal muscle to recre-ate and protect its monopoly on noise cancelling headphones.

Beats Electronics has repeatedly shown itself to be a creative fi rm willing to go toe-to-toe with the established players in the headphone market. Most likely, Bose has calculated that it would be better o" trying to battle its new competitor legally than compete in the marketplace.

That being said, Bose itself is only re-acting rationally to the legal and economic framework set in place that incentivizes creating and enforcing a monopoly on a patented product. The reduction or elimination of U.S. intellectual property institutions would lead to less legal action from tech fi rms and more innovation and competition.

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After losing to top-ranked North Carolina, the men’s soccer team returns home against Lafayette. Heather Tennant | Staff Photographer

After facing the nation’s best team over the weekend, midfi elder Brandon Kolc-zynski and the rest of the Pitt men’s soc-cer team will be happy to return home for three games following a tough road trip to North Carolina and the now top-ranked Tar Heels.

But that does not mean that they will overlook their next opponent — Lafayette.

“We know they’re not as good of a team, so just take out the mental errors, and we should have it under control,” Kolczynski said.

The team begins a three-game homes-tand against Lafayette tonight, looking to improve its undefeated record at Ambrose Urbanic Field this season.

The Panthers expect to take advantage of two lesser opponents during its homes-tand, as both Lafayette and Niagara are not in power conferences. In between those games is a conference matchup against North Carolina State, which is 2-2 the season.

Pitt, after just losing to then third-ranked UNC in its last game, will expect

a better performance from the back line and try to possess the ball with more con-sistency than the team could against the Tar Heels.

The mental errors that Kolczynski re-ferred to came in the second half against UNC when the Tar Heels put the game away by scoring their second and third goals from miscues in Pitt’s defense.

This will be the fi rst-ever meeting be-tween Pitt and Lafayette, a team that plays in the Patriot league.

Lafayette is a rather unimpressive 1-3-1 this season, with the lone win coming against St. Peter’s in the fi rst game of the season. Since then, the Leopards have been involved in close a! airs, by not losing a game by more than one goal and playing into extra time twice.

The team’s most impressive e! ort came in a road loss against Rutgers, when they pushed the Scarlet Knights in the second half but could not score the game-tying goal in the fi nal minutes.

The Leopards have four players with two points apiece, providing a balanced

SPORTSPanthers open three-game series at home after loss

Mark Powell Staff Writer

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While some former Pitt stars like Larry Fitzgerald got back on track Sunday, others, like Aaron Donald, regressed slightly after excellent week-one per-formances.

After a dismal outing in the season opener, Larry Fitzgerald improved dra-matically for the Arizona Cardinals Sun-day. The 11th year wide receiver snagged six catches for 51 yards as the Cardinals beat the Giants 25-14 in the Meadow-lands. Oddly enough, Fitzgerald’s in-

creased production came from veteran backup quarterback Drew Stanton, who took the reins after Carson Palmer was pulled from the contest due to a shoulder injury. Unlike week one, where Fitzger-ald seemed like more of a bystander than a top wideout, his 10 targets showed that he was not ignored at all for the second week.

The former Panthers chosen in the most recent 2014 NFL Draft endured some growing pains against their re-spective competition. St. Louis Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald hardly appeared in the stat book last Sunday

after a dominant season debut. Donald only recorded one tackle in the Rams’ 19-17 win over the Tampa Bay Bucca-neers. However, Donald played for 25 snaps and was still very disruptive while on the field.

Wide receiver Devin Street had a dif-ferent story, with a stat line of goose eggs. The Dallas Cowboys’ fifth-round pick played the role of benchwarmer as superstar Dez Bryant surged the Cow-boys to a 26-10 victory over the Ten-nessee Titans.

Speedster LeSean McCoy turned in the most noteworthy performance of all

former Panthers currently playing in the NFL. The Philadelphia Eagles running back was his typical elusive self as he aided the team’s comeback win over the Indianapolis Colts, 30-27. McCoy posted 79 yards on 20 carries, similar to last week’s numbers, but he was undoubt-edly a bigger presence this week. For instance, his one-yard scamper into the end zone not only capped off a seven-play, 80-yard drive, but also gave the Eagles their first touchdown in the game. This gave the Eagles the much-needed

Fitzgerald regains form, McCoy solid again in NFLJack DeMarco

Staff Writer

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The United States men’s team won the FIBA World Cup on Sunday when it beat the Ser-bian men’s team 129-92.

Not the FIFA World Cup that happened months ago — I’m talking about the FIBA World Cup, for basketball.

The International Basketball Federation, known as FIBA, held an international basket-ball tournament during the fi rst two weeks of September with 76 games . Countries such as Spain, France, Serbia and the United States competed for the title of world champion.

Before 2012, the tournament was known as the FIBA World Championship. In 2012, FIBA decided to rebrand the tournament and changed the name to the FIBA World Cup. The expectation of the rebranding was that the name change would allow the tourna-ment to be recognized as one of the world’s biggest and best sporting events. Not only

would the tournament gain prestige as a result of the name change, but it would also gain more viewers.

That wasn’t really the case — just more than one million Americans watched the United States team play in each of its tourna-ment games, marking only a slight increase in viewership from the 2010 FIBA World Championship.

There are a number of reasons why the FIBA World Cup didn’t attract many Ameri-can viewers. Mostly, it came down to timing.

First, most games occurred in the middle of a typical workday. Some of the tourna-ment games were played at the same time as college football and NFL games. Also, this year’s men’s team didn’t have a lot of superstars — both Kevin Love and Kevin Durant dropped out, and Paul George broke his leg, forcing him to miss the tournament.

These reasons could explain the World Cup’s poor television ratings. However, bad timing might overshadow a bigger problem:

Americans just don’t care that much about the NBA.

While television ratings for NBA Finals games have increased since 2003, the ratings for regular season games have not. In 1996, NBA games received an average 5.0 rating on network TV. In 2014, games received a measly average rating of 2.3.

NBA regular season game viewership doesn’t even compare to the tens of millions of viewers that NFL games have each week. NBA ratings are more comparable to MLB ratings, even though America’s pastime has steadily lost viewers over the past 10 years.

But television ratings for NBA games were not always this bad.

Throughout the ’80s and ’90s, basket-ball’s popularity skyrocketed. NBA Finals games consistently held ratings over 13.0, and NBA All-Star Games rated twice as high as they do now. The NBA was so popular back then because the league had a fi erce rivalry between two very likeable players in

Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, and it had a transcendent superstar that made every NBA game must-see television in Michael Jordan.

Today’s league has a great rivalry between LeBron James and Kevin Durant and a su-perstar who is bigger than basketball itself in LeBron James. Yet today’s ratings do not match the ratings of the ’80s and ’90s.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver recog-nized the disappointing television ratings that NBA games receive and has proposed solutions to the problem.

Silver wants to require that prospects play two years in college before they are eli-gible to play in the NBA, instead of one year as the rule currently mandates. By playing in college for at least two years instead of one, college prospects will gain a greater fan base. He hopes that these players will bring their fans to the NBA and increase the league’s popularity.

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o! ensive attack. Pitt will most likely win the possession battle without much of a contest, but Lafayette’s spread-out o! ense could be dangerous in the counterattack.

Based on how the season has gone for Pitt so far, one of these teams will fail to score a single goal. The Panthers have been on one end of a shutout in each of their games this year.

The Panthers’ o! ense has been far from stagnant this year, despite being shut out twice. Pitt has averaged one goal per game in its four contests, which is a far cry from last year’s scoring woes.

However, this statistic is slightly skewed, as three of those goals came in its opening win against Presbyterian. Over

the last three games, the Panthers have only managed one goal.

They have a good chance at padding that statistic during the homestand with two games against teams outside of power conferences.

“I think we have to compare it to last year,” sophomore midfi elder Kevin Murray said. “Last year, we weren’t even getting opportunities. We weren’t even getting the technique, it was mostly park the bus and hope for a draw.”

Murray has been impressive o! the bench for the Panthers this season, pro-viding an instant o! ensive threat. He scored his only goal of the season against Presbyterian.

In the shutout loss to UNC, Pitt failed to possess the ball for long stretches of time. Head coach Joe Luxbacher said that against top opponents, the Panthers will need to

work on their possession.“As a whole, there were some good

spots,” Luxbacher said regarding the loss to UNC. “We’ve got to keep the ball more, and you have to do it in a way that you can get numbers forward and create chances.”

While Lafayette isn’t the same caliber team as UNC, Pitt cannot get too comfort-able, as its next game is against NC State in its second ACC contest of the year.

Pitt has had more success in non-con-ference contests this season, largely due to the opponents it has played. William and Mary is the toughest non-ACC team Pitt has played this year, as evidenced by a 4-0 defeat.

Although it’s still early in the season, Pitt has yet to lose a regular season or exhi-bition game at home. The Panthers will also look to improve on their impressive home record this year, beginning with Lafayette.

confidence that carried their offensive momentum well into the fourth quarter.

Despite McCoy’s plentiful contribu-tions to head coach Chip Kelly’s offen-sive game plan, sidekick running back Darren Sproles was the game breaker of the night. He led the Eagles with 152 receiving yards and also had a rushing touchdown of his own. Although it seems up until this point that McCoy is in the backfield for a considerable majority of snaps, don’t be surprised if this changes. With Sproles’ playmaking ability and Kelly’s innovative play-calling, the two couldn’t be better suited for each other.

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