Two weeks ago, I was not going to submit a résumé to Halliburton at the Engineering Career Fair, but now I have decided that I will. You might ask why I would do such a thing. Why would I allow such a "loathsome corporation" to woo me? The simple answer is, I am proud to be a University of Wisconsin engineering student. The mindset taught to engineers here in Madison is that if you see a problem, you try and find a solution. It does not matter if it is an engineering or ethical problem, your duty is to fix it. The answer is never to try and keep the problem out of sight and out of mind, but rather to tackle it head on. In this way, I refuse to wash my hands of Halliburton in the way the Campus Anti-war Network would want. They would have us push the problem off campus so we as a community can claim no responsibility. Well, I think we do have a responsibility that goes beyond non-participation. Halliburton is a problem, a big problem, but Halliburton is still a corporation made up of people. I would like to think that if Halliburton had more people of the quality that UW can produce, it would steer a new course founded on ethical behavior. If I were to be hired by Halliburton, I would still be fully prepared to honor the National Society of Professional Engineers code of ethics, even at the risk of my job, and I am convinced that all of my colleagues in the College of Engineering would too. I would not participate in or ignore any unethical behavior but would instead work to correct it. In short, I would make myself part of the solution. So today I will walk through the picket line, shake hands with the Halliburton representatives and tell them that the company has serious ethical problems that cannot be ignored, and that I want to change that. Noah Bachmann ([email protected]) is a UW senior majoring in civil and environmental engineering. [email protected] UW Senior Civil & Environmental Engineering [email protected]