Hutton Honors College

Debating Real-world Ethical Issues

• Thursday, March 29, 2007, 7-9 p.m.
• Honors House, 324 N. Jordan Ave.
• SIGN-UP REQUIRED
• Refreshments served

• Should university health care providers be allowed to promote emergency contraception, such as the morning-after pill, to students who are leaving for spring break?
• Is the use of Native American mascots by sports teams morally permissible?
• May physicians deceive their patients if it is in the patient's benefit to do so?
• Is it a violation of civil liberties to prohibit protesting of military funerals?

These and other tough ethical questions come from current, real-world situations. Do you have answers? Can you persuade others, especially those who have different answers, that you are right and your arguments relevant? At this informal discussion program, ethical dilemmas, such as those noted above will be explored, and debated, with the guidance of students from IU’s highly ranked Ethics Bowl Team. Also participating will be Karen Hanson, dean of the Hutton Honors College and Rudy Professor of Philosophy; Richard Miller, director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions and professor of religious studies; and Mark Wilson, coach of the IU/Poynter Center Ethics Bowl Team.

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