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9th Annual Student Ethics Symposium

Saturday September 26, 2009
10:00 am - 12:00 pm 
Connelly Center

The Student Ethics Symposium is one of the events held during Parent's Weekend.

Subcommittee for the Ethics Symposium:
Mark Doorley
Brett Wilmot
Mark Wilson

Awards Presented:

  • Edith Stein Student Research Award in Ethics
  • To be announced at the symposium
     

  • Honorable Mention Student Research Award in Ethics
  • To be announced at the symposium

Presenters

Caroline Bolwell
Gay Marriage: An Investigation of the Vital Right to be Granted to the Homosexual Community of the United States

Chelsea Woods
Unreachable Dreams?

Greg Cassoli
Equal Funding for Education throughout the Nation

John Nawn
The Eidetic Kinetic Kid: Being and Doing as a Child in the Kingdom of God

Tim Haberin
Paying for Your Health: Ethics of the Health Care Industry

Alex Frantz
Globalization: Ethics in Principle, Condemned in Practice

Charles Hannon
Refraining from Exercising Capital Punishment: A Logical Policy Choice

Laura Joslin
Freedom

Richard Howe
Jus ad Bellum and Preventive War

Isabel Tinker
What Is Freedom? Liberalism and Natural Law: Individual Autonomy versus Choosing the Good

Gabriel Boisvert
Ethical Considerations of NIMBY from a Classical Utilitarian Standpoint

Meghan Connors
The Moral Implications of Capital Punishment

Jenn Maez
The Economic Option for the Poor

Abby Norris
Anger: A Requirement?

Allison Wiener
Lower the Drinking Age to Eighteen