Westminster College in SLC will be hosting the Wasatch Front’s qualifying tournament for the national Ethics Bowl, and their director has kindly invited us to participate. I haven’t been involved with this before, but the idea is this. We are given some ethical cases to think through. At the local tournament, our team is asked probing questions about the cases, and we are assigned points depending on how well we respond. The winning team, I believe, advances to the national tournament, which will be at Indiana University.
So: are any students out there interested in being on our team? The Westminster tournament is November 13th. If so, leave a comment saying so to this post, or send me a note.
USUPhilosophy 
I would be interested. I think.
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Eric’s a natural choice; after all, he thinks ;)
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I wouldn’t mind taking a shot. How is it going down?
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I am extremely interested in participating in this Ethics bowl. I have a loving passion for philosophy, debating, and the consideration of morality.
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I would be interested in participating, sounds interesting.
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I would be interested in participating.
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I would love to participate as well.
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For those interested: we will be meeting each Wednesday in October, from 4 to 5 pm, in the Dean’s conference room, Main 340 (enter through M 338).
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here are some helpful links for those who would like to better verse themselves in the ethics bowl.
for general informaiton,
http://www.indiana.edu/~appe/ethicsbowl.html
for a few more cases to test your ethical prowess,
http://ethics.iit.edu/index1.php/Programs/Ethics%20Bowl/Case%20Archive
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one last thing: i know someone asked to see a scoring sheet, so here’s a link for one so you don’t have to dig around for it.
Click to access EB_JudgeScoreSheetTeamOne.pdf
the difference between team 1 and team 2’s scoring sheets is small – the team number, and the shape of the boxes in which the judge places the team’s score is either a square, or an octagon. that’s all, folks.
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