In order to participate in the annual Senior Ethics day, seniors walked to the Westin Hotel on Dec. 1 to discuss ethical dilemmas and how to address them.
Throughout the day, seniors focus on a series of famous and common ethical problems that they must try to justify and solve.
Guest Speakers came in to direct an open discussion of the different situations that the students could potentially be in.
Senior Kelsey Parks said the experience of Senior Ethics Day was one he was glad he did not miss.
“Senior Ethics Day really opened my eyes to the many problems today that come down to the ethics of the situation,” Parks said. “I think many of the problems or situations that they gave us really related to us [as] young adults about to go into college and enter the real world.”
Congress and Politics editor of USA Today Paul Singer came to talk to the class of 2018 about how not only his own but the morals of others affect his job as a reporter and a citizen.
“You want me to be fair and unbiased and if I’m going to be that then I’m not going to be nice,” Singer said. “I’m not going to be nice simply because the facts are not. My job is to get the facts out.”
Singer said his job is often hard when it comes to exposing the truth about people, specifically politicians.
“Sometimes ethics make it hard to decide whether or not to publish something,” Singer said. “Ethics really drive what is being put out into the media these days, but if we let it totally control us then the facts won’t get out. Ethics creates questions that aren’t clear. If they were clear, then ethics wouldn’t matter.”