Undergraduate students from Macalester College took home the national championship in the APPE Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (APPE IEB)®, which was held February 22 and 23 in Norfolk, Virginia. The final match against Stanford University featured cases about space weaponry and term limits for federal judges.

In the final, the students discussed the following questions:

• If you were tasked with outlining the United States’ policy with respect to the use of space weaponry, what would that policy look like?
• If you were tasked with producing a policy regarding the term lengths for federal judges (up to and including lifetime appointments), what would that policy look like?

Over two days, 36 teams of undergraduate college students from across the country wrestled with these and other thorny issues using a set of cases that were drawn from real-life ethical challenges in education, business, life, and politics.