Hutton Honors College

Student/Faculty Discussion: "Ethical Dilemmas: Facing Tough Questions Every Day"—featuring student facilitators from IU's National Champion Ethics Bowl Team.

This is a small-group program and requires participants to sign up in advance. Participants must be IU undergraduates and must sign up using the established procedures. For complete sign-up procedures, click here.

Should concerns about national security override an individual's right to privacy? Can children serve as translators for their ill, non-English-speaking parents in medical settings? Who gets the right to use water when there is not enough of it to go around? Should schools allow students to leave class for sexual and reproductive health appointments without parental consent?

Our society and each of us face tough ethical questions every day. Do you have answers to those questions? Can you persuade others, especially those who have different answers, that you are right and your arguments relevant? Ethical cases with questions such as those noted above will be explored, and debated, at this informal discussion program with the guidance of students from IU's National Champion Ethics Bowl Team. Also participating will be Karen Hanson, dean of the Honors College and professor of philosophy, and Richard Miller, director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions and professor of religious studies.

Indiana University Poynter Center Ethics Bowl Team

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