Twelfth Annual
Texas Regional Ethics Bowl
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Saint Mary's University
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Cases for 2009: http://skipperweb.org/ethicsbowl/2009/2009_cases.doc The final regional standings from 2009: http://skipperweb.org/ethicsbowl/2009/results.html The Texas Regional Ethics Bowl (TREB) serves as a qualifying event for the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (the national ethics bowl), sponsored by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE). The national event will take place on March 4, 2010 in Cincinnati, Ohio. For more information on the IEB and for names of other regional bowls, follow this link: National Ethics Bowl. The consequences of placing high. As usual, the top four teams of the TREB will receive a trophy. Our arrangement with IIT works this way. Our regional event will have a number of places determined by the total number of teams competing in regional bowls around the country. Ten regional bowls mean that we may get to send four teams or we may only get to send three. We won't know for sure until after the completion of all the separate bowls. The top three (or four) schools from our event (not the top three teams) will receive an invitation to send one team each to the national event. Schools who have two or more winning teams only receive a single invitation (but, see the note below).* If a school with a winning team declines to accept the invitation, it passes down the list again. To make matters even more complex, teams may receive "undistributed places" at the national event. That is, after the national organizers distribute the guaranteed places, they sometimes end up with a few left over. They then fill those places with runner-up teams from regional events, determined by a complex formula you may examine on this page. Therefore, even if your team does not win one of the top three places, you may still find yourself invited to compete nationally. Cases. I selected seven cases from a pool of fifteen, written by a committee for use by all regional events. Fees. The fee is fifty dollars for each school plus twenty-five dollars per team. If your school sends one team, the fee comes to $75; two teams would cost $100; and so forth. Make all checks payable to St. Mary's University, and send the to my attention. Registration: Register your team online by clicking this link: Registration for 2009 TREB. Registration closes October 24, 2009.
* Note: If one school has multiple organizations that each wish to compete, there is a special arrangement. This might happen (for instance) if you sent one team from an extra-curricular philosophy club and one team from a for-credit criminal justice class. The teams come from the same school, but have different coaches, sponsors, and budgets. Two such "unlinked" teams must declare thiemselves as such in advance. The organizers treat unlinked teams, though actually from the same school, as though they came from different schoolls. Thus, they must each pay the fifty-dollar national fee. For the official explanation, see the "Regional IEB Rules" at the IIT website. Please bookmark this page and keep checking back. I will post more information as it becomes available. Dr. Robert Boyd Skipper, chair | ||||||||||||