Resident to compete with Ethics Bowl Team

BLOOMINGTON, Ill.— West Hartford resident Jordan Stanley will compete with the Illinois Wesleyan Ethics Bowl team at the National Ethics Bowl competition in Jacksonville, Fla. in February 2014.

   The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, a team competition that integrates originality and resourcefulness, presents students with troubling and complex ethical issues that are present in today's society. For the competition, students must argue and defend their innovative moral assessments of and responses to these issues.
 
The qualifying team includes senior Ben White, junior Anh Dao, sophomore Steph McAtee and first-year students Brigitta Jakob and West Hartford resident Jordan Staley. Seniors Jaret Kanarek, Jake Bates, Stephanie Fenty, Kent Larson and Jamal Smith constitute the other IWU team, which was a key element to the qualifying team's success. First-year student Duc Nguyen has also helped with the team's preparation.

The teams' coaches are Emily Kelahan, assistant professor of philosophy, and Andy Engen, assistant professor of philosophy.

Kelahan highlighted the diversity of IWU's teams. The professor said the participating students are from a variety of academic majors and an assortment of grade levels. They also participate in a wide range of sports and extracurricular activities, and no two students on the qualifying team are from the same state.