Despite a hectic week of quarter-carding and campaigning, the issues surrounding the Student Assembly election barely made it to the agenda of the S.A.’s weekly meeting last night in Willard Straight Hall.

The S.A. announced at the meeting that 14 challenges have yet to be resolved before the election results can be posted. According to the S.A., the turnout this year — 4,432 votes — was significantly larger than last year’s turnout.

As reported by The Sun on Feb. 19, the current S.A. election is at its most competitive since 2006, boasting 43 candidates running for 19 available positions.

While the Motion Picture Association of America was eager to point the finger at college students across the nation for causing billions of dollars in damage due to illegal downloading via peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, it turns out the MPAA did not double check its homework.

A 2005 study conducted by L.E.K., a consulting firm hired by the MPAA, claimed that 44 percent of the movie industry’s domestic losses were attributable to illegal downloads by college-age individuals.

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Was there a serial downloader lurking outside Jammie Thomas' window? Did someone else hook up a computer to her Internet connection?

Those are some of the questions her attorney has been raising in the nation's first trial of someone accused of illegally sharing music online.

But Richard Gabriel, lead attorney for some of the nation's largest record companies, sought to pick those ideas apart one by one by calling witnesses to document each step the record companies used to point the finger at Thomas.

Testimony in the civil case was to resume Wednesday in federal court in Duluth. The case could wrap up as early as Wednesday night or Thursday.