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"Sex, Speech, Selfies, and Getting Smashed: Critical Legal Issues for College Students is designed to help readers navigate their higher education experience with safety and the law in mind. The book introduces foundational legal concepts, uncovers the legal basis for many college campus policies, and reviews critical rules and regulations related to speech, sex, technology, drugs, alcohol, and parties. Part I addresses free speech on campus, guest speakers, and instances of direct disagreement. Students learn about basic tenets of free speech, discrimination statutes and speech codes, counter-speech freedoms, and how to effectively engage in discourse with the ""other side."" In Part II, the book covers sex crimes ranging from streaking to stalking to sexual assault. Additionally, Title IX, consent, reporting assault, and bystander intervention are addressed. Part III speaks to issues related to technology, including sexting, sextortion, dating apps, social media, and protecting your digital image. The final part discusses alcohol and drug laws, how to throw a safe and legal party, and hazing. Each chapter features real-world case examples from universities across the country to demonstrate how particular legal situations were handled on campus. Succinct but highly informative, Sex, Speech, Selfies, and Getting Smashed helps students realize a safe and successful higher education experience. It is an exemplary resource for first-year and freshman orientation programs and courses."

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C.L. Lindsay III is one of the nation's leading experts in student discipline and higher education law. He has spent the last 20 years working with college students, teaching them about their legal rights and responsibilities. He has given more than 1,500 invited lectures at colleges and universities, high schools, and military bases across the country. He graduated from Denison University in 1993 and received a law degree from the University of Michigan in 1996.

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