Ethics Bowl 2011-12

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The 2011-12 Ethics Bowl team Won the Regional!

The Ethics Bowl team won the regional competition November 12 and will compete in the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl national event on March 1, 2012 in Cincinnati.

Team members are Femi Taiwo, Kyle Fletcher, Sara Shapiro, Grant Manon, and Charlie Zhang.

The Ethics Bowl competition is presented annually by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics as a method of involving undergraduate students in deliberating about and seeking to resolve difficult ethical cases and controversies. The Poynter Center fields a team each year.

The coach is Luke P. Phillips, a PhD candidate in Philosophy. Valerie Aquila, a PhD student in the School of Journalism, is the assistant coach. The advisor is Professor Sandy Shapshay from Philosophy. Richard Miller from the Poynter Center is the sponsor.

Team members are Grant Manon, Charlie Zhang, Sara Shapiro, Femi Taiwo, and Kyle Fletcher.

The IU team members are:

• Kyle Fletcher, a senior from Greenwood, Indiana, majoring in Philosophy and Economics
• Grant Manon, a freshman from Kendallville, Indiana, majoring in Finance and Interdepartmental Political Science and Economics
• Sara Shapiro, a senior from Newton, Massachusetts, majoring in Economics and Philosophy. She is also in the Liberal Arts and Management Program (LAMP).
• Olufemi Taiwo, a senior from Carmel, Indiana, majoring in Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy
• Charlie Zhang, a senior from Greenwood, Indiana, majoring in Economics, Mathematics, and Finance

The Regional Competition

The Central States regional, in which the IU team competes, was Saturday, November 12, 2011 at Marian University in Indianapolis. The top qualifying teams are invited to compete in the national competition.

The regional includes three matches, where one team responds to a question about a case they have already studied. The second team responds to the first team's presentation, the first team responds to the second team, and then the judges ask questions of team one. In the second half of the match, the second team answers a question about a different case, and the process is repeated.

Team members are Charlie Zhang, Grant Manon, Femi Taiwo, Sara Shapiro, and Kyle Fletcher.	Coach Luke Phillips

The National Competition

The national competition, which draws together the top 32 teams from the regional rounds, will be held on March 1, 2012 in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics in Cincinnati, Ohio. IU won the national competition in 2004 and 2009.

The teams are given thirteen complex ethical and policy cases to study in advance of the competition, though they are not told what questions they will be asked about any case. For each match, one team is required to present a view on a case and then respond to questions from the opposing team and judges. Then the roles are reversed, and the opposing team presents an argument surrounding a different case, after which they respond to questions. Teams are evaluated at the end of each match for the quality of their arguments, responses, and counter-responses. At the national competition, the 32 participating teams compete in three rounds in the morning. The top eight teams advance to the quarterfinals, which are held in the evening.