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100

During a stop, keep your hands here. 

What is the steering wheel?

100

ISU requires first- and second-year students to live here unless they’re exempt.

What is on campus (University Housing)?

100

ISU sends your conduct notice here, so don’t ignore it.

What is your ISU email?

100

The age to legally buy or drink alcohol in Illinois.

What is 21?

100

This federal law makes your college records yours, not your parents’.

What is FERPA?

200

The acronym means officers have a description of a person or car tied to a crime. 

What is a BOLO (Be on the Lookout)?

200

On this kind of lease, you can owe your roommate’s unpaid rent.

What is a joint (joint and several) lease?

200

The number of advisors you can bring to a conduct meeting.

What is one?

200

The class of misdemeanor for drinking or having alcohol under 21.

What is Class A?

200

This Illinois law protects braids, locs and twists from discrimination.

What is the CROWN Act?

300

This exception lets police search a car without a warrant if they have probable cause evidence is inside.

What is the automobile exception?

300

SAMI, Young America and First Site all charge this percentage as a late fee when your rent comes in late. 

10%

300

This ISU office in Hovey Hall 310 handles discrimination and Title IX.

What is the Office of Equal Opportunity and Access (OEOA)?

300

Students can have alcohol on ISU property only at official tailgates in this zone.

What is the Tent Zone?

300

Illinois requires this to secretly record a private conversation.

What is consent from everyone in the conversation (all-party consent)?

400

This 1961 Supreme Court case made evidence from an illegal search generally inadmissible in court.

What is Mapp v. Ohio?

400

This Illinois law, in effect since 2025, says a landlord can’t raise your rent or refuse to renew your lease because you asked for repairs.

What is the Landlord Retaliation Act?

400

In a conduct case, you don’t have to present this.

What is information against yourself?

400

Illinois protects an under-21 caller who gets help for someone with this, if they stay and cooperate.

What is alcohol poisoning?

400

In this 2014 case, the Supreme Court ruled police generally need a warrant to search your phone.

What is Riley v. California?

500

Illinois requires every traffic stop to be recorded and reported to this state agency to track racial data.

What is IDOT (Illinois Department of Transportation)?

500

Illinois’s Right to Repair Act lets you deduct a repair from rent, up to this amount or half a month’s rent, whichever is less.

What is $500?

500

For a grade dispute, this is the first person to contact.

Who is your professor?

500

The maximum fine for a Class A misdemeanor.

What is $2,500?

500

You have this long to file most discrimination charges with the Illinois Department of Human Rights.

What is 2 years?