Today’s biggest stories:

• RIAA sues UGA students (registration required) - The recording industry trade group has filed suits against 15 anonymous UGA students for illegal music downloading. RIAA hopes to get UGA to release the students’ names.
• Ticket pick-up process changes - Now students will pick up tickets (football, b-ball, and Gymdogs) by their total hours. Pick-ups will also be between 5pm and 9pm to minimize class disruption.
• ACC commissioners claim ignorance, still want to change alcohol policies (registration required) - Commissioners Dodson and Lynn claim to be upset about not previously hearing of possible alcohol policy changes, but they still want to make the suggested changes (makes a lot of sense).
• UGA Police like to stop UGA buses - The Athens World blog tells of UGA police and their propensity to stop UGA Transit buses for minor offenses, often causing traffic backups.
• 35-1 for national championship - An AJC sports looked up the odds of UGA football (and others) winning the national championship.
• Sean Bailey loves pit bulls (registration required) - UGA wide receiver defends the raising of pit bulls, as long as it isn’t for fighting (a la Michael Vick).
• UGA has SEC scholar athlete - UGA runner Natalie Picchetti was named one of the SEC’s two Scholar Athletes of the Year.
• R&B rips Barnes - My favorite read of the morning, the Red and Black Editorial Board rips into Blake Barnes.  The best (or worst) quotes:
  • If a third-string quarterback gets suspended and nobody cares, is he really suspended?
  • But with him out, who is going to hold the clipboard?
  • Maybe the coaches should use football analogies to explain it to the players. For example: walking down the street with open containers is like throwing a pass into triple coverage…  But then again, Barnes would actually have to play for the analogy to ever make sense.