Date: 2/2/09
Contact: Marc Lebovitz
Attorney C.L Lindsay will speak on "Trouble Online: Campus Computing and the Law" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, at Illinois State University's Bone Student Center Brown Ballroom. Admission is free and open to the public. Lindsay is being presented by Illinois State's Career Center and is made possible by a grant from Target.
Lindsay, who founded and is executive director of the Coalition for Student and Academic Rights (CO-STAR), is the author of "The College Student's Guide to the Law." Since its creation in 1998, CO-STAR has become a national student rights organization that every year helps thousands of college students with their legal problems, free of charge.
A nationally recognized expert and leader in the field of student rights and academic freedom, Lindsay writes a syndicated column, "Ask CO-STAR," which is distributed nationwide on Knight Ridder/Tribune's College Wire Service. He also is the author of "The College Student's Guide to the Law: Get a Grade Changed, Keep Your Stuff Private, Throw a Police-Free Party, and More!" He has appeared in countless regional and national publications, as well as on radio and television.
Lindsay is a magna cum laude graduate of Denison University and received his J.D. from the University of Michigan. He teaches courses in Law and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.