'ETHICS BOWL' TAKES A HIGH-TECH TURN Students from 15 Virginia universities recently competed in an 'Ethics Bowl' on prominent high-tech issues. Tech executives, professors, lawyers, and others asked teams of university students for their ethical position on a series of high-tech scenarios and then questioned the teams about those positions. The scenarios included university-specific issues, such as old term papers available on the Internet or Web sites that allow students to make unfounded accusations against professors, to more general tech issues, such as how Web sites make use of consumer data they have collected. Many of the students who participated say the issues facing the Internet generation are no more or less complicated than those older generations have faced. The Internet has only made it easier to encounter the issues. Many university officials at the Ethics Bowl say students must learn from kindergarten all the way through college that just because technology makes it easier to cheat and commit other unethical acts, it does not follow that such actions are acceptable. (Washington Post, 13 February 2001)