2008 Schedule and Topics

 

 

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