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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.

Bibliography: Ethics Column; Snitching

Lyday, Rachel and Brian Cronk. Tattletales: A Study in Conformity and Bystander Intervention in Cheating.Missouri Western State University, Dept of Psychology. (2005 April, 29) Retrieved on January 9, 2009 from http://clearinghouse.missouriwestern.edu/manuscripts/551.asp.
Moten, Ronald. The Washington Post. (2007 August, 19) B02. Retrieved from Washingtonpost.com.

Change of plans everyone....my articles can now be found on the top of the Echo web page under Ethics. Keep checking my blog though, bibliography for my column and other offside stories will still appear!

Sorry I have been away for so long, December's break was much needed. Welcome 2009! Im interested in knowing what students at Olivet College want to hear about. Please post if you have any suggestions for the Ethics column! Im looking forward to this column again, let's keep it interesting!