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Trouble Online: Campus Computing and the Law

Wednesday, October 10

CL Lindsay headshot

In 1998, attorney C.L. Lindsay III, left his practice in New York City to found the Coalition for Student & Academic Rights (CO-STAR). Since then, acting as its Executive Director, he has built CO-STAR into a national student rights organization that helps thousands of college students with their legal problems, free of charge, each year.

C.L. is a nationally recognized expert and leader in the field of student rights and academic freedom. His syndicated column, "Ask CO-STAR " is distributed nationwide on Knight Ridder/Tribune's College Wire Service. The column, published weekly, has become one of Knight Ridder/Tribune's most popular features.

"Trouble Online: Campus Computing and the Law - How your Facebook pages can come back to haunt you!" covers the following topics:

  • Plagiarism & Intellectual Property Online
  • Potential Employers & Online Information - the content of your Facebook page can undermine future job opportunities
  • Computing Privacy - the dangers of Internet predators obtaining personal information
  • Posting underage drinking on the Internet can result in disciplinary actions - you can be thrown out of college