Photo courtesy of Abby McEvers
The Team has come a long way in the four years. Garcia-Flahaut remembers, “Our first competition, we lost almost every single round. We had walked in totally unsure of what to expect and the judges could see that.” Over the past four years, the team, “developed a more intensive schedule and more structure within meetings. We also bonded a lot more as a team and developed a more cohesive argumentative flow because in ethical rounds we can take turns speaking and there’s no structure to who needs to speak when!” says Garcia-Flahaut. Additionally to winning more often, the Ethic Bowl Team itself has grown in recent years. Garcia-Flahaut notes that “[The] team grew to about 14 competing members (which is huge because we started with a struggling four)… We really enjoy being an open, active group and hope to continue to make strides!”
Garcia-Flahaut describes the differences between Ethics Bowl to the related Bioethics Bowl and Mock Trial, “Ethics bowl has a wider focus on issues. Also, the competition style is different in that we do not receive judge questions ahead of time and therefore, it’s more a think on your feet type situation. Bioethics looks specifically at issues within the medical and scientific field and their implications… We look at a myriad of ethical cases. They range from vegetarianism, to gun control to international development to forced feedings in prisons. Usually, the competitions include topics currently in the news and the ethics nuances which encompass them.”
In preparation for Nationals, the Ethics Bowl Team will be coming back to campus in the middle of J-term to work together in preparation for Nationals in February. Aberdeen McEvers ’19 is going to Nationals and says, “I’m looking forward to going to Dallas, I’ve never been before, but far more so, I’m excited to show the enormous amount of work and preparation that the team has put in, payoff!” Keep your eyes on Ethics Bowl in February!
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