Student Success Statement 5.17.18

1. Telling the truth lets everyone know what really happened. There's less chance of misunderstanding, confusion, or conflict.
2. Telling the truth protects innocent people from being blamed or punished.
3. Telling the truth allows everyone to learn from what happened.
4. You usually get into less trouble for telling the truth other than for lying (and geting caught).
5.Other people trust you more when you tell the truth.
6. You dont have to tell (and remember) more lies to keep your story straight.
7. You gain a reputation for being truthful- a trait most people value.
8. Telling the truth helps you to feel secure and peaceful inside.

When you tell the truth it saves you so much time and emotional labor. It does so much good for you but when you're scared of confrontation you lie sometimes and it's not fair to others. People deserve to be told the truth all the time and when you don't provide that for them it's a huge disrespect. Telling lies is very time consuming and you spend most of your day thinking about them and trying to keep up with them when you couldve just said the truth in the beginning. It's hard to tell the truth sometimes but the more you do it the more it becomes habit. I think being honest is one of the best traits because its rare.

Student Success Statement 3.2.18

"Many think that the short term gain will be worth the long term pain, but it isn't. In addition, using steroids is cheating, and there is nothing worse in sports than a cheater. Don't do it." -George Mitchell, Senate Majority Leader, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Disney Chairman of the Board.

Cheating can only guarantee a small amount of success but at a bad cost. Cheating in sports is terrible for the sole reason of everyone else who worked harder than you loses. You shortcut your way to your goal but you didn't actually get there yourself. So in reality it wasn't you winning anyways. When athletes use steroids there usually is a clouded amount of pressure on them to succeed. When you look at sports as you HAVE to succeed no matter what it kind of takes the point of sports away. I get that it's a career but in any job if you cheat you get fired and you're looked as less than. So many people want to be in a major league for every sport. They work extremely hard to make themselves be the best they can be and you worked your way up to that level up until you cheated. So not only do you undermine your teammates hard work and effort but you ruin your own effort.

Student Success Statement 2.28.18

"I won't cheat" -Dale Murphy

When you cheat you don't ever really feel good about succeeding. It just kind of feels bad. Cheating also undermines everyone else work. When you cheat you're trying to succeed like everyone else. But that doesn't mean everyone else is cheating too so it isn't right. It really makes everyone's hard work almost worthless because you decided to take a short cut. It isn't fair to everyone else who worked harder than you to get at their level. It really isn't worth the "success" at all. In the end you wouldn't even win because you never put in that effort.