Photo of UNCW/CSB 2008 Ethics Bowl competitors
What is the Ethics Bowl?
The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (IEB) is a tiered competition in which the top scoring thirty-two teams in ten regional ethics bowls compete against one another at a national ethics bowl. At the both the regional and national ethics bowl competitions, participating teams compete in three matches on the day of the event. In the evening the top scoring four teams compete to determine an overall winner.
In both the regional ethics bowls and the national ethics bowl, six weeks prior to the day of the event, each team receives a set of the ethics bowl cases.
During the competition a moderator poses questions to teams of five students based on the cases provided. 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 evaluates answers; rating criteria include intelligibility, focus on ethically relevant considerations, avoidance of ethical irrelevance, and deliberative thoughtfulness.
2008 Regional Teams Competing:
Campbell University
Clemson University
Lynchburgh College
North Carolina State University
Shenandoah University
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
University of Miami
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2 teams)
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
University of Richmond
University of South Carolina at Aiken
West Virginia University (2 teams)