Moravian Debate Team           

The Moravian Debate Team competes in the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (IEB), sponsored by The Center of the Study of Ethics in the Professions at Illinois Institute of Technology. The IEB provides undergraduate students the opportunity to participate in a competitive tournament of ethical debates with undergraduate students from over 100 Universities and Colleges. The experience challenges student on various fronts and helps them develop invaluable educational skills for future success in the work force and in graduate school. Some of the skills they work on and practice throughout the year are the following:  

• Public speaking.
• Develop and articulate arguments.
• Express their views and justification clearly and intelligibly.
• Discern ethical issues.
• Discern ethically relevant and irrelevant issues.
• Discern the various ethical perspectives and viewpoints.

The 2008 Regional Competition will be held on November 15, 2008 and includes the following Universities and Colleges: Dartmouth, Villanova, Manhattan, Fredonia (SUNY), Franklin-Pierce, Notre Dame-Maryland, Marists, Buffalo (SUNY), UMass-Boston, Williams College Wilson, and United States Military Academy – West Point.

About the Moravian Team

The Moravian Ethics Bowl Team is made up of five undergraduate students. They meet and practice weekly, discussing the ethical cases provided by the Ethics Bowl Executive Board. Upon receiving the cases for the given year’s Regional competition, each team member investigates the ethics that line both sides of a given case. The Team prepares its arguments and possible rebuttals for each of the cases to prepare for competition at the Regional IEB.

About IRB and The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Profession at Illinois Institute of Technology

“The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (IEB) combines the excitement and fun of a competitive tournament with a valuable educational experience for undergraduate students. Recognized widely by educators, the IEB has received special commendation for excellence and innovation from the American Philosophical Association, and received the 2006 American Philosophical Association/Philosophy Documentation Center's 2006 prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs. The format, rules, and procedures of the IEB all have been developed to model widely acknowledged best methods of reasoning in practical and professional ethics.”

For more info on the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl: http://ethics.iit.edu/eb/index.html