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Using the Potter Box, describe how you might come to a decision on this ethical dilemma:

The president of the Students Union at your university is about to graduate. She is an honors student with a 4.0 GPA. She has been accepted to do graduate work at a prestigious university. But she has been caught drunk driving, and the penalty is severe. She may be sentenced to probation and community service. As a well‐known and popular campus personality, many people would be shocked and surprised if they found out.

You are a reporter for the student newspaper. You get a call from the student president, begging you not to report this story. Her offer to go to graduate school might be withdrawn, and her promising career would be over. She says she is truly sorry for what she has done. She asks you not to do the story.

By show of hands, what does the class think should happen now? Report or not?

Again using the Potter Box, what should your decision be?