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Ethics Bowl Team Wins Nationals per school is allowed to advance to nationals. Before the competition, teams are given cases that contain ethical issues to analyze. Scully explained that during the competition, a moderator asks a question about a case and the team must give a 10-minute presentation of an answer. “That’s definitely the hardest part [of the competition],” Scully said. Afterwards, another team has a chance to respond to the first argument presented by pointing out holes and inconsistencies. “We lost one of the preliminary rounds, so we thought we were cut out [from the competition], but we got wild-carded in,” team member Alex Landreville said. “It still doesn’t feel real.” According to Scully and team member Ben Hoffman, the team has been practicing hard for the past few months. Hoffman said the team practices about 10 to 12 hours a week, usually on the weekdays but sometimes on Sundays too. “During Winter Term we’d get lost in conversation, so we’d end up practicing like three hours a day most days,” said Scully. Members of both regional Ethics Bowl teams at DePauw attended practice to help everyone prepare. “We think of it as a single team,” said Landreville. Hoffman emphasized the lively practice dynamic. The DePauw Ethics Bowl team claimed the national championship title in San Antonio, Texas “We all come from very different backlast Thursday. The team consists of seniors Sara Scully, Alex Landreville, and Ben Hoffman, grounds, so the way I prepare arguments is very as well as junior Ethan Brauer and December 2012 graduate Mohammed Usman. COURTESY OF different from the way others do,” Hoffman said. SARA SCULLY “The arguments we come in with [individually] The competition was held as part of the 22nd lay the foundation of how we talk about a case By NICKY CHOKRAN annual meeting for the Association for Practical during practice.” news@thedepauw.edu Hoffman said the team is comfortable around and Professional Ethics. each other due to the extensive amount of time DePauw’s Ethics Bowl team has a history of DePauw’s Ethics Bowl team returned from they spend together, mostly in practice. He strong performances. The university’s website San Antonio, Texas, as national champions afsaid teammates are not afraid to “badger each ter winning the 17th Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl reported that the team’s journey to San Antonio other” or point out weaknesses in each other’s marks the eighth time in nine years that the team Championship on Feb. 28. The national champiarguments during practice. on team consisted of senior Ben Hoffman, senior qualified for the national championship. “It gets pretty vicious,” Hoffman said. “[But] According to team member Sara Scully, a secAlex Landreville, senior Sara Scully, junior Ethan it builds us from a teamwork perspective and inBrauer, and December 2012 graduate Moham- ond Ethics Bowl team comprised of five students tellectual growth perspective.” at DePauw also qualified for nationals during the mad Usman. regional competition. However, only one team
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Senior Kraska earns Fulbright By ALEX PAUL news@thedepauw.com
Senior Katie Kraska found out she won a Fulbright scholarship to research in Indonesia before DePauw’s other eight finalists. Kraska, a biology and art history double major from Kentucky, opted to complete a research project instead of teaching English. She will conduct research on wildlife tourism and community empowerment in Bandung, Indonesia for ten months. “[Teaching English] makes me feel a little imperial,” said Kraska. “I’d rather learn about [Indonesian] culture.” The project will investigate how to make land profitable for the people of Indonesia, as opposed to for the foreign corporations who buy up land, but do not put any of the money back into the country. “Indonesia has arguably the richest ecological diversity anywhere except the rain forests,” Kraska said. “It’s threatened by any industry.” Kraska is passionate about animals. She has ridden horses all her life, and she has been a vegetarian since she was in seventh grade for moral and ethical reasons. Her passion inspired her to find constructive way to help animals. Her junior year Kraska studied abroad in East Africa. Her experience abroad gave her a basis for her experience in the field of wildlife tourism. “Indonesia is similar to East Africa,” Kraska said. “I kind of got my hands dirty there.” While in Indonesia Kraska also received the Critical Language Award, a program that is part of the Fulbright, to learn the native language of Indonesia. Kraska began the application process last year by going to informational meetings, and crafting a project idea. She credited Robby Jacobs, who graduated last year, for getting her excited about Indonesia. Jacobs’ father was a diplomat for Indonesia, and their family still owns a house in the country. “My entire being was consumed by Fulbright,”
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