University Of Maryland Team Wins Ethics Bowl Intercollegiate Competition

Two UMD teams placed first and second in the competition that took place in Baltimore on Nov. 2.

By Dustin Levy, The Dimondback

Controversy struck a rural Virginia town when a local cemetery in Doswell interred the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

Some Massachusetts cemeteries had refused the body, and, due to Tsarnaev’s Muslim beliefs, cremation was not an option. Some Caroline County residents were upset by the decision, while others didn’t care where the bomber’s body went, according to The Boston Globe. This begs the question: What should local leaders do?

This question presented one of 15 cases that this university’s Ethics Bowl team prepared to sweep the winning title at the intercollegiate ethics competition in Baltimore on Saturday.

“It went about as well as we could have asked for,” sophomore journalism major Matt Present said.

Two university teams placed first and second in the competition, with a two-point differential, against teams from the University of Baltimore, the U.S. Naval Academy, Notre Dame of Maryland University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.