FIRST LMU ROUND
Monday, March 24
7:30 PM Oil Drilling in Alaska
Tuesday, March 25
12:00 noon Supermarket Chain/Plastic bags
3:00 PM Desalinization
4:30 PM Monsanto and Genetically Modified Organisms
6:00 PM Puppy Farms
Wednesday, March 26
7:30 PM Online Gambling
Thursday, March 27
3:00 PM Offshore Stem Cell Research
Friday, March 28
10:30 AM The Fuzzy Logic of Corporate Environmentalism
12:00 noon Cloning and Food: McDonald’s
SECOND LMU ROUND
Tuesday, April 1
3:00 PM Finals Presentation
4:30 PM Finals Presentation
6:00 PM Finals Presentation
Wednesday, April 2
3:00 PM Finals Presentation
4:30 PM Finals Presentation
6:00 PM Finals Presentation
INTERCOLLEGIATE ROUND
Thursday, April 10
1:30 PM
*Westmont College: International Medical Relief and Government Extortion
3:00 PM
*Loyola Marymount University: Offshore Stem Cell Research
*University of Arizona: Companies Harboring Illegal Immigrants
*California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo: Know Your Food (issues related to the marketing of “organic” food)
4:30 PM
*California State University, Bakersfield: Predatory Lending—Countrywide Home Loan’s Focus on Sub-Prime Lending Directed toward Mid- and Low-Income Families
*University of San Francisco: Profits or Privacy—Exploring the competing Stakeholder Interests of “Facebook”
*University of Oregon: Using Social Networking Sites to Hire Employees
Friday, April 11
9:00 AM
*University of Kansas: E-Waste and Corporate Responsibility
*McKendree University: Not for Sale—Big Box Industry’s Abuse of Eminent Domain
*UCLA: Pharmaceuticals, Physicians and Freebies
10:30 AM
*Loras College: Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Gene Patent
*Loyola University of Chicago: Planktos, Corp.—carbon credits, reduction of carbon emissions and the ocean
*University of St. Thomas: Public Funding of Professional Sports Stadiums
12:30 PM
*Tuskegee University: Merck's Gardasil
*Montgomery College: GEICO’s Practice of Requiring Aftermarket Auto Parts and the Consumers’ Right to Disclosure
*St. Petersburg College: The Ethics of Marketing to Children
2:00 PM
*United States Naval Academy: Murky Water—Ethical, Legal and Financial Viability of a Private American Security Firm Doing Business in Latin America
*University of Florida: The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System
*Saint Louis University: Mirror, Mirror on the wall: Is Fair Trade the fairest of them all?
3:30 PM
*Duquesne University: Medical Tourism—For-Profit Global Medical Solutions
*Saint Joseph's University: Emergency Medical Care Provided by Private Healthcare Institutions for Low-Income Patients
*Villanova University: Merck & Co., Inc. and Off-shore Clinical Trials
5:00 PM
*Fairfield University: Facebook and Hiring Practices: Respecting Privacy in the Public Domain
*La Salle University: Health Insurance Companies & Experimental Surgery
*McGill University, Canada: Alcan Inc.
Saturday, April 12
9:00 AM
*Middle East Technical University, Turkey: Product Placement
*Dartmouth College: The Subprime Mortgage Market-Help for the Disadvantaged or Boon for the Banks?
*New York University: SPAM: Ethics of Email in a Digital Age
10:30 AM
*Central European University Business School, Hungary: Ambiguous Corporate Social Responsibility in Hungary
*United States Military Academy at West Point: Google Map’s “Street View” and the Right to Privacy
*Claflin University: Compliance with Employment Policies and Practices by Wal-Mart Suppliers in China