I know. There is no 15 pin variant on the good old game of bowling, but I felt a compulsion to make a bad pun. So sue me eh? Ethics Bowling. What is that? It isn't fair play at the alley. Nope. What is it?
Sometime today the fun begins for the USNA Ethics Team, which I am fortunate enough to coach.
The team qualified for the National Finals of the APPE Ethics Bowl competition, which is to be held in sunny Cincinnati March 3 of this year. That qualification was accomplished by finishing in the top four of the Southeast Regional of the APPE competition in sunny (truly sunny) FLA this past November.
Ethics Bowl is similar to a debate competition, but does not place a premium on talking a mile a minute like an auctioneer on massive doses of espresso. Instead, it judges teams based upon the quality of their analysis of the ethical ramifications of 15 cases culled from current events including cases relevant to foreign policy, personal ethics, technology and ethics, engineering ethics, business ethics, medical ethics, you name it, and there is an Ethics Bowl case that covers it.
Today is the day that APPE is set to deliver the set of 15 cases that will be used for the finals. The 32 teams that have been invited will have the months of January, and February to mull these cases, hash them out, and rehearse their presentations.
The competition is March 3. Every team that has been invited is top notch, and the competition is intense. Their are three preliminary rounds in the morning, which reduce the field to a "great eight." That great eight takes part in another three rounds, culminating in the championship round later in the evening. The day is grueling but participants love it.
So, wish our mighty Ethics Team luck as we begin preparations for the big show!
More on the USNA team, and the competition can be found HERE and the cases will be posted HERE.
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