IU dishes up a team for Ethics Bowl competitionBy Jayne Spencer | |
 Photo by Paul Martens Ethics Bowl team members are (left to right) Laura Hartman, religious studies; Diego Marino, jazz studies/religious studies; team coach Julia Pedroni, a research associate at the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions and an assistant professor of philosophy; and Maria Cohen, LAMP/Russian languages and literature. Not pictured are team members Summer Johnson, bioethics, and Erin Brown, philosophy. | Indiana University has fielded its first team ever in the seventh annual national intercollegiate Ethics Bowl competition that began yesterday in Cincinnati and ends Sunday (March 4).
Competing in this year’s event are more than 30 undergraduate teams from around the country, representing all four military service academies, private colleges and universities, and public institutions. The competition is in conjunction with the tenth annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, an organization with headquarters located on the IU Bloomington campus. The team has met weekly to analyze 15 cases that will be used at the Cincinnati competition; additional debate occurs on the team’s on-line discussion forum. The cases on which the competition is based are distributed in advance, but the competitors do not see the actual questions until the competition. Team coach is Julia Pedroni, research associate at the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions. Funded by Sears, Roebuck and Co., Ethics Bowl is a team quiz game inspired by television’s College Bowl and combines the excitement of a competition with an innovative approach to education in practical and professional ethics. Questions may address classroom topics, personal relationships or professional ethics. A panel of judges rates answers on soundness of reasoning, clarity, focus and depth. |
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