UA Ethics Bowl team are quaterfinalists in 2025 national competition
This past weekend, the UA Ethics Bowl team competed in the National Competition in Norfolk, VA. They made it to the quarterfinals! This places our veteran team in the top 10 of over 200 universities who competed nationally this year.
Members of the team (pictured below L-R) are:
- Aurora Seekins, PPEL & Economics
- Layla Bartlett, PPEL
- Lilith Clark, PPEL & History
- Zaina Jasser, Philosophy, Music & Bioethics
- Harlow Parkin, PPEL
This group put in a ton of hours practicing and perfecting their arguments for the competition, and all this work really paid off. They were coached and assisted by UA Philosophy graduate students Jacob Blitz and Ella LaRose, who did their utmost coordinating community support to send this team to their competitions. The team placed third overall in the Rocky Mountain Regional Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Competition November 16, 2024, at the Colorado School of Mines, enabling them to compete in the national competition in Norfolk.
The team's two graduating seniors, Lilith Clark and Aurora Seekins, led the way by helming the case presentations for all three of the team's wins. The team's winning arguments addressed the balance of privacy and safety in driver monitoring systems, the apportionment of moral responsibility for food waste, and the legal consequences of parental criminal responsibility. The team's two trophies from Regionals and Nationals may be viewed in the UA Philosophy Main Office.
