New Tiered System

For the first time this year, the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl will be a tiered competition. The semi–finalists from eight regional Ethics Bowls, including the Northeast Regional Ethics Bowl, will earn a spot in the national Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, to be held in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Thursday, February 22, 2007.

Who can participate

  1. Any college or university–based teams composed of 3–5 undergraduate students may participate, irrespective of the region in which the school is located. Nevertheless, most will probably be from the Northeast region.
  2. Individual schools may send more than one team to the Northeast Regional Ethics Bowl (NEREB), but they can win at most one spot in the national competition. If a school secures a spot in the national IEB by advancing to the semi–finals at the NEREB, the composition of the team that competes at the national level is left entirely up to the school, and need not be identical to a team that competed in the regional tournament.
  3. Teams may compete in as many regional events as they like, but must designate in advance of a given competition whether they wish it to serve as the one which could qualify them for participation in the national IEB. If you would like the NEREB be your qualifying competition, please indicate this on the NEREB registration form or otherwise notifying the organizer, Julia Pedroni, in writing before the competition begins on the morning of November 11.
  4. To register for this year's Ethics Bowl, click here

Cost of participation:

The national IEB competition assesses a fee of $50 for each school that participates in a regional competition. Upon registering for the NEREB, please send a check in this amount, payable to the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, to Prof. Robert Ladenson, Department of Philosophy, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616.