Spring Break 2009, Panama City - sun, sand, thousands of college coeds in barely-there bathing suits, clubs, bars, kegs buried on the beach…with all this excitement you are bound to be faced with some ethical decisions. With all the booze and sexy bodies, “hooking up” might be one of those instances where your morals will be questioned. Beyond hooking up, alcohol creates its own set of ethics when it’s mixed with sex. Did you know that if you are under the influence of alcohol or drugs you are absolutely incapable of giving sexual consent?

Pride is a personality trait that can be seen as a positive or negative quality. You must have pride, but if you have too much it becomes self defeating as well as defeating to other’s pride. The Merriam Webster dictionary definition of pride is, “excess self esteem or conceit”, but why does society apply so much pressure for us to have pride if it’s such a questionable trait? Society teaches us we must be prideful; but some take pride too far and by being too prideful actually harm others.