Chapter 15-Ethical Choices: Is it necessary to tell the WHOLE truth? Campus recruiting season is rapidly approaching, and you're spending all your free time getting your resume into shape. As you tackle the section that summarizes your academic credentials, you're tempted to omit that one semester at a well-known western party school where you discovered that cruising in the fast lane is hard on a person's average. Should you omit any reference to the fact that you flunked out in your freshman year? Why or why not?