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Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl^sm Updated December 7, 2009 Sixteenth Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl^sm Competition The Sixteeth Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl^sm will be March 4, 2010 in Cincinnati, OH, as a part of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics' 2010 19th Annual Meeting. Colleges and universities across the United States and throughout the world who qualified in a regional bowl have been invited to enter a team of undergraduate students in the national competition. The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (IEB) is a team competition that combines the excitement and fun of a competitive tournament with an innovative approach to education in practical and professional ethics for undergraduate students. Recognized widely by educators, the IEB has received special commendation for excellence and innovation from the American Philosophical Association, and received the 2006 American Philosophical Association/Philosophy Documentation Center's 2006 prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs. The format, rules, and procedures of the IEB all have been developed to model widely acknowledged best methods of reasoning in practical and professional ethics. In the IEB, each team receives a set of cases which raise issues in practical and professional ethics in advance of the competition and prepare an analysis of each case. At the competition, a moderator poses questions, based on a case taken from that set, to teams of three to five students. Questions may concern ethical problems on wide ranging topics, such as the classroom (e.g. cheating or plagiarism), personal relationships (e.g. dating or friendship), professional ethics (e.g. engineering, law, medicine), or social and political ethics (e.g. free speech, gun control, etc.) A panel of judges may probe the teams for further justifications and evaluates answers. Rating criteria are intelligibility, focus on ethically relevant considerations, avoidance of ethical irrelevance, and deliberative thoughtfulness. On Thursday, March 4, 2010, all teams participate in the preliminary rounds from 8:30 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. The eight teams with the highest scores will participate in the quarter-finals at 6:00 p.m., with the semi-finals at 7:15 p.m. The final round will be from 8:50-10:00 p.m. Annual Meeting attendees and members of the public are invited to attend various rounds of the competition. To Register for the National Competition IEB National Championship Qualifying teams must register for the national competition by January 15, 2010. To register, the team sponsor for a qualifying team must complete the registration form and submit it along with the $200 team registration fee to the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Indiana University, 618 East Third, Bloomington, Indiana 47405. Registration and credit card information may be faxed to 812 856-4969. See the National Registration Form for the required information. To enter a team or for more information, please contact: Pat Croskery, IEB Subcommittee Chair, Ohio Northern University, PH (419)772-2197. Email Patrick Croskery. The team must register for the National Ethics Bowl with Pat Croskery and with the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (and pay the $200 fee to the Association) in order to compete. Ethics Bowl participants are also invited to attend the Association's Annual Meeting March 4-7, 2010, for a special fee of $85. The Association will pay the Annual Meeting registration fee (not the Ethics Bowl registration fee) for the first 70 actively competing National Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl^sm team members who register for the Annual Meeting, provided that they register for the Annual Meeting before January 19, 2010. See Annual Meeting for more information about the Annual Meeting. ______________________________________________________________________________ Hotel Information The Nineteenth Annual Meeting will convene at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, 35 West Fifth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202. For reservations, call 513-421-9100 or 1-800-HILTONS. Identify yourself with the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics to receive the meeting room rate of $128 single or double plus tax per night. Note: The deadline for hotel reservations at the meeting rate is February 13, 2010. The Hotel has provided us with a reservation link: Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza Reservation Page Please make sure that Association for Practical & Professional Ethics 19th Annual Meeting appears at the of the page before booking your reservation. Please contact the hotel at the reservation number above if you experience any trouble with the hotel weblink. ______________________________________________________________________________ The National Championship Cases and Rules 2010 Championship Cases in PDF 2010 Championship Cases pdf 2010 Championship Cases in Word 97-2003 (doc format, not docx) 2010 Championship Cases doc 2010 Championship Rules (only in PDF) 2010 Championship Rules pdf In case 2. For Bitter or Worse, references to "NOW-NYC" should have been to "NOW-NYS" 2010 Format and Schedule (only in PDF) 2010 Format and schedule 2010 Judge Guidelines (only in PDF) 2010 Judge Guidelines Ethics Bowl Etiquette (only in PDF) Ethics Bowl Etiquette Judge's Score Sheets: Judge's Score Sheet for Team One Judge's Score Sheet for Team Two Ethics Bowl Judge Training Video 2010 Ethics Bowl Judge Training Video Cases used in the Judge Training Video Cases Video Cases (PDF File) Regional Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl^sm Competitions The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl^sm is a tiered competition. Durning November and December of 2009, ten regional ethics bowls took place at various locations throughout the United States. The top scoring thirty-two teams in the regional ethics bowls have qualified to compete in National Competition at the 2010 19th Annual Meeting on Thursday, March 4, 2010 in Cincinnati, OH. Teams wanting to participate in the 2010 IEB National Championship* must have participated in one of the ten regional ethics bowls. See below for list of Regional Bowls and contacts. Qualifying Teams from the Regional Competitions: Northeast Regional Ethics Bowl Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York November 14, 2009 (Winner) Union College coached by Mark E. Wunderlich; Dartmouth College coached by Aine Donovan and Stephanie Kvam; Marist College coached by Joanne Gavin; University at Albany, SUNY coached by Cameron Waldman Mid-Atlantic Regional Ethics Bowl The University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia November 21, 2009 (Co-champions) University of Miami coached by Anita Cava; Clemson University coached by Charles Starkey; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill coached by Jan Boxill; University of North Carolina, Charlotte coached by Robin James Southeast Regional Ethics Bowl The University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Florida November 14, 2009 (Winner) Eckerd College coached by Naomi Block; University of Central Florida coached by Nancy Stanlick; University of Alabama at Birmingham coached by Gregory Pence; U.S. Naval Academy coached by Shaun Baker; University of South Florida St. Petersburg coached by Deni Elliott; University of North Florida coached by Rico Vitz Central States Regional Ethics Bowl Marian University, Indianapolis, Indiana November 14, 2009 (Winner) University of Kentucky coached by Aaron German; Wright State coached by Joseph Petrick; Indiana University coached by Luke Phillips; Belmont University coached by Jennifer Wilgus Upper Midwest Regional Ethics Bowl Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois November 21, 2009 (Winner) University of Wisconsin-Madison coached by John Klatt; Oakland University coached by Lisa Campbell; Carleton College coached by Michael Hemesath Texas Regional Ethics Bowl St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas November 14, 2009 (Winner) University of The Incarnate Word coached by Paul Lewis; Texas Lutheran University coached by David Baer; University of Texas-Pan American coached by Cynthia Jones; Southern Methodist University coached by Ken Loyer Rocky Mountain Regional Ethics Bowl University of Colorado, Boulder November 21, 2009 (This bowl does not have an official winner) University of Colorado, Denver coached by Candice Shelby; Metropolitan State College of Denver coached by Carol Quinn Wasatch Regional Ethics Bowl Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah November 14, 2009 (Winner) Westminster College coached by Michael Popich; Weber State University coached by Richard Greene California Regional Ethics Bowl California State University, Chico, Chico, California December 5, 2009 (Winner) University of California, Santa Cruz coached by Sandra Driesbach Northwest Regional Ethics Bowl Co-hosted by Avanade and Accenture at Avanade's corporate headquarters, Seattle, Washington November 14, 2009 (Winner) University of British Columbia coached by Johnna Fisher; Central Washington University coached by Matthew Altman For those interested in how teams are scored or for a format to start your own Ethics Bowl^sm please feel free to download the forms used at the Fifteenth Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl^sm For more information about the Ethics Bowl^sm competitions contact the Association's IEB Subcommittee Chair, Pat Croskery, email p-croskery@onu.edu, (419) 772-2197. Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Indiana University 618 East Third Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405-3602 Telephone (812) 855-6450; FAX (812) 856-4969 Questions pertaining to this web site can be sent to appe@indiana.edu