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The Center for Ethics and Leadership
Highlights of Past Activities
SPRING 2008 EVENTS
| January 22 - February 15 |
Passion & Civility Debate Tournament, 6p.m., Mabee Ballroom A&B, Robert and Pearle Ragsdale Center
The Center for Ethics and Leadership along with the Office of Campus Ministry sponsored a single-elimination student debate tournament that began Jan. 22, 2008, and ended with the finals on Feb. 15. Judges took a tabula rasa approach, judging on the quality of the student's arguments and refutation of their opponent's arguments. The final debate was held in Mabee Ballrooms A&B and was free and open to the public. |
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| January 31 |
Focus the Nation Climate Change Conference, 9:30 a.m - 5:00 p.m., Mabee Ballroom A, Robert & Pearle Ragsdale Center
St. Edward’s joined hundreds of other schools around the nation in hosting “Focus the Nation,” a day-long event that discussed global climate change. Event was free and open to the public. See a schedule(pdf) of events and speakers.
For more information, visit www.focusthenation.org. |
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| February 28 |
Joe Bageant Spoke on Class in America, 7 p.m., Jones Auditorium, Robert & Pearle Ragsdale Center
Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War (Crown 2007), talked about class in America. In his book he recounts his return to Winchester, Virginia, to listen to his friends and family talk about their working-class lives in 2007. Author Howard Zinn commented that Bageant “evokes working-class America like no one else. The account of his revisit to his Virginia roots is sobering, poignant, and instructive.” For more information on Bageant or his book, access his blog at www.joebageant.com. |
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| March 27 |
Before and After Schiavo: A Lecture by Carmela Epright, 5 p.m., Fleck Hall 305
In this presentation, Dr. Epright, B.A. St. Edward’s University ‘90, discussed some of the watershed cases in bioethics that preceded the case of Terri Schiavo and demonstrated the ways in which these cases led to the decisions made in the Schiavo case. She then discussed some of the ways in which the Schiavo case has and will impact bioethics and public policy. Co-sponsored by the New College Philosophy Program. |
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| April 3 |
The Most Reverend Bishop John McCarthy Lecture Series on the Catholic Church in the 21st Century featuring Richard Gaillardetz, Ph.D., 5 p.m., Jones Auditorium, Robert & Pearle Ragsdale Center
Richard R. Gaillardetz, Ph.D., Margaret and Thomas Murray and James J. Bacik Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Toledo, presented "A New Council? Reflections on the Future of the Church."
In this lecture, Gaillardetz discussed how the church has implemented Vatican II and considered what direction further church renewal might take. Is it time to consider Vatican III?
This event was free and open to the public. |
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