Ohio University to Host Student Conference on Ethics

Contact: Kathleen Evans-Romaine, Assistant Director of the Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics, (740) 593-9802 or ethics@ohiou.edu

ATHENS, Ohio (April 19, 2001) -- Presenters at the 2001 Ohio University Student Conference on Applied Ethics Saturday, Apr. 28, will explore the gamut of ethical issues. The student papers to be presented will examine such topics as media issues (monopoly ownership and AIDS coverage), medical concerns (stem-cell research, assisted suicide) and other areas of ethics and modern society. The conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 5:10 p.m. in Copeland Hall on the Athens campus. Special emphasis will be placed on environmental ethics, with presentations on socially-responsible investing and the value of wilderness.

Keynote speaker Deni Elliot, director of the Practical Ethics Center at Montana State University, will present "Practical Ethics in the First Person" at 1 p.m. A full list of speakers and topics is available at www.ohiou.edu/ethics/2001_conference.html

Patricia Lancia of Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, who will present "Ethical Implications of Monopoly Media Ownership," and Matthew Russel of Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pa., who will present "Evaluation of the Merits of Noncommercial Software Policy," were selected by a panel of Ohio University students and faculty as authors of the best papers and will receive cash awards.

The 2001 Student Conference on Applied Ethics is sponsored by the Ohio University Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics. The conference is free and open to the public, but participants are asked to pre-register at www.ohiou.edu/ethics/register.html. For more information, visit the Institute's Web site: www.ohiou.edu/ethics/