As I sat down at my computer earlier this week and checked my email, doing my usual assessment of the content of my inbox. Email from my best friend from home about the weekend's activities? Read now. Email from my advisor? Keep it to read later. Spam trying to get me to purchase male enhancement products? Delete.

So, if you ever see me and wonder why I rub my arm every time I enter Hollenbeck Hall, it's because I have just pinched myself. I do this to make sure that I'm not dreaming. You see, I grew up in Springfield. As a native, I rarely stepped foot on the Wittenberg campus unless I was lost or taking my kid sledding.

In 1982, the now-Senator Scott Brown posed nude for Cosmopolitan Magazine as "America's Sexiest Man," and today's media did not crucify him for it. But why, when a female politician such as Sarah Palin finds herself in the spotlight, does every little mistake make the spotlight? Our media is scandal hungry and after absolutely anything they can sink their teeth into, especially with regards to women.

If you found a twenty dollar bill on the ground outside of the Student Union building, would you take it to the front desk in case someone came to ask for it? What if it was a one-hundred dollar bill? Or, what if the money was wrapped around a fellow student's ID card? Would you give the card and the money back? Have you ever downloaded music from a friend's CD onto your computer? Have you done so even if the CD specifically mentions that the work contained within is copyrighted and should not be shared in any manner? Have you ever downloaded a movie from the web, one that also carried restrictions against such actions? Questions such as these speak to our understanding of honor and integrity.