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The past decades have seen an alarming increase in campus crime, alcohol abuse by college students, hazing and other risky student activities. There is a growing awareness of the need to make safer college campuses. While danger to students has been on the rise, the relationships between students and their universities has grown increasingly distant. The rise in danger and the loss of community on college campuses has been inadvertently facilitated by legal rules. Courts crafted legal protections for colleges which backfired: legal rules designed to protect colleges from lawsuits instead encouraged colleges to become insular and to avoid positive steps to protect student safety.

Bickel and Lake re-imagine the role of law in university/student relations. Picking up on recent court decisions and legislative initiatives, the authors describe a new legal paradigm for college safety - the facilitator university. The modern college is not a baby-sitter or custodian of students: but it is also not a mere bystander to student safety. The facilitator university balances the rights and responsibilities of students and institutions and envisions campuses which feature shared responsibility for student safety. Law can be a positive tool for improving safety and community on modern campuses..
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Learn how children are wired so you don't short circuit

With 20+ years of experience as a developmental and behavioral pediatrician, and mother of 3 very special children, Dr. McGuire has a wealth of knowledge about the hows and whys of children. Learn how children are wired. Teach them skills they will find useful for a lifetime..
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Description: Live Through This brings together more than 30 of the most exciting art, music, and fashion personalities who are changing art making in New York. New art practice is now intimately tied to the lived experience of the artists themselves, and this book, through more than three hundred color photographs of artists, artworks, studios, off-duty behaviors, zines, concerts, openings, and parties, illustrates and examines the nature of this relationship. Thoughtful criticism is provided by five essays: Larry Rinder writes about the groundbreaking nature of Fort Thunder and Providence scene, Jeffrey Deitch offers an historical and personal look at New York's underground, musician Philip Guichard describes the past five years of music in the city, digital artist Cory Arcangel talks about collectives and new media, while Kathy Grayson provides a behind-the-scenes thesis. Major attention is paid to artists working in New York City, but also in Providence and San Francisco. The list includes several major names in art, fashion, and music, but some decidedly underground ones, thus emphasizing community affiliations and working collaborations. This is a most authentic look at what New York's art scene truly is, organized and produced by the members themsleves through extensive collaboration..
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Switch on your computer and discover a whole new world. Unlike most 'beginner' guides, "Easy PC" assumes readers have absolutely no previous knowledge of computers, and takes them by the hand through their first teetering steps into Windows XP or Vista. And, unlike most other computer guides, "Easy PC" benefits from being written not by a technical guru but by an ordinary person who understands the problems faced by computer virgins.From the very basic skills of using a mouse, learning how to single- and double-click, opening files and programs, through to using DVDs, email and the Internet, Dr Mole avoids baffling techno-jargon and explains each new term in a plain English index. In no time at all, even complete technophobes will be word-processing, managing documents, drawing pictures, emailing and surfing the Web with ease. Praise for the previous edition: 'A helpful little paperback...ruthless in its clarity' - "The Evening Standard". 'Simple, practical information that most other so-called beginners' guides leave out' - "The Bookseller"..
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You'll want this report at your side as you go through this most critical phase in your community's evolution! Make this transition the right way and you'll avoid dissent in the community— more importantly, those expensive legal problems! Also contains tips on how to develop leaders within the association, draft legal documents and create effective and productive committees..
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