Twelfth Annual
Texas Regional Ethics Bowl

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Saint Mary's University

Registration form

Explanations

Number of teams. The Texas Regonal Ethics bowl is open to any college or university in the country. This means that there may be an unusually large number of schools applying. Placement in the competition is on a "first come first served" basis. You may still, as ever before, enter as many teams as you wish. However, in the event that there are too many teams for the available number of rooms, we reserve the right to drop a team from a school that has entered more than one team.

Team names. If your team wishes to adopt a name, please include it in the registration information, otherwise, multiple teams from the same school will be arbitrarily color-coded (e.g., St. Mary's University, "Blue"). Team names or color-code names will appear on registration packets, pairing charts, and "table tents."

Shirt size. We will continue the traditional practice of distributing souvenir t-shirts in a variety of sizes. If you want any size of t-shirt other than "Large," please indicate which sizes and how many on the registration form. The idea is to give one shirt to each team member, and one for a faculty member--coaches, sponsors, and co-sponsors must either fight it out or pick from the leftovers.

Clans. The National Ethics Bowl permits more than one team from each school. This is intended only for teams that are not connected with each other in any way. If the School of Humanities and the School of Engineering each wanted to send a team, but they each had different coaches and different sponsors, these two teams could (in principle) both compete. However, to do so, the two teams must register at the regional level separately--that is, they must delcare their intention of competing against each other by paying separate entrance fees. So, my solution to this is to request schools with totally unconnected teams to register by "clans." Each clan, which may consist of one or more teams, will be competing for exactly one place at the national event. If any team from a given clan wins a place, the team that goes to the national event may be drawn from any team in the clan. For instance, suppose Goodman University has three teams, one from students in a debate club, and two from a for-credit ethics course. You would then register a one-team clan from the debate club and a two-team clan from the ethics course, and each clan would then pay a $50 National Ethics Bowl fee plus a $25 regional fee for each team. When the regional event takes place, no teams from the same clan and no clans from the same school will face each other.

Fee schedule: $50 per school (or per clan, if the school sends more than one clan) plus $25 per team.

Special Dietary Restrictions: I intend to offer a lunch buffet while we are waiting for the scores to be tallied. Please let me know of any special dietary restrictions your team members may have. If I can accommodate them, I will try to do so. Examples: "Three vegetarian," "One non-dairy," "Two non-beef." I can't guarantee these accommodations, but I can try to honor the requests.

Copyright © 2009, by Robert Boyd Skipper