IIT to Host Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl

The Ethics Center will host an intercollegiate Ethics Bowl on Saturday, April 8. A team representing IIT, to be selected through an internal ethics bowl competition on Saturday, March 25, will test its ability to analyze ethical issues, under conditions that call for clear and quick thinking, in a contest with teams from DePaul, Loyola, and Western Michigan Universities.

Ethics Bowl, which the Center is co-sponsoring with the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs of IIT, is a team game inspired by t TV’s College Bowl, but with rules adapting the College Bowl formal to the subject of ethics. Ethics Bowl is intended to combine the excitement and fun of a competitive game with an educationally valuable experience. The Ethics Center has sponsored intramural ethics bowls at IIT for the last two years. In 1993 the competition drew four teams. Last year the field expanded to eight. The immensely positive feedback received from the students who participated encouraged the Ethics Center to plan an intercollegiate Ethics Bowl this year.

In Ethics Bowl a moderator asks teams of four persons questions that pose ethical problems on topics ranging widely over areas such as the classroom, personal relationships, professional ethics, and social and political issues. A team gets one minute to confer on its answer to a question, after which the Moderator states the "Moderator's answer. " At that point, a team may either rest or challenge the Moderators answer. The judges will be distinguished guests from outside IIT.

Anyone interested in receiving more information about the Ethics Bowl should contact professor Robert Ladenson, Faculty Associate of the Center at address on front.