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Are you ready for some football? Or do you need to first chug a protein shake, take five hour energy, and indulge in some serious Mountain Dew? A lot of college students are involved with athletics but there are a lot of ethical issues involved with sports. One of the ethical issues students are faced with is performance enhancing drugs.

If someone in your family has passed you know how hard of a time it is. I am appaled by the number of people who have lied about such a thing. I know of at least two people who have lied about the passing of one of their parents. Not only is this a lie but what does this do to the faimly member that is still alive. If I told my friends my father passed why wouldn't they believe me...because people lie about this!!!

Not one student was dismissed for failure to comply with the academic honesty policy last year. Whew. We must be more ethical than the rest of America because most sources show that between 75 and 98 percent of America’s high school and college students have cheated in one way or another.

The Olivet College Code of Conduct states that to make students more socially and individually responsible they place emphasis on leadership but at the same time they include disciplinary actions to, “hold students accountable to the standards of the community”. The standards they list are: respect for oneself, respect for others, respect of property, and honesty and integrity. I believe that the code of conduct is meant to act as distributive justice, fair treatment for all, but I think it comes off as a procedural form of justice.

City ordinance in Olivet states that you must be quiet until 9am. Durring pledging, as well as conferences in the summer, Olivet College asks that the City' snoise ordinance is observed. 9am until 10pm is the time slot where noise can be made. How is it that I have been woke up by the Olivet High School band on three occasions this week before 8am. If the college must adhere to the cities ordinance than the high school should too. Ethically we cannot hold some community members to a higher than others.