From the Director...
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| Dr. Daniel Wueste |
“A Poster Boy for Cheating”
According to Time’s Bill Saporito that — “a poster boy for cheating"— is what Lance Armstrong has become. We knew him as a world-class cyclist (winner of the Tour de France—seven consecutive times, 1999-2005), cancer survivor, philanthropist, and co-founder of Livestrong, an organization that fights to “improve the lives of people affected by cancer.” The New York Times reports that "...The decision to waive the right to take Armstrong’s case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the highest court in sports, formally strips Armstrong of the Tour titles he won from 1999-2005. The Amaury Sport Organization, the company that organizes the Tour de France, will erase Armstrong’s name from its record books..."
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Corn for the Car
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| Kelly Durham |
Did you know that you’re paying more for food so you can put corn in your car? As goofy as that sounds, it’s true and it’s another ‘pocketbook’ issue of which you should be aware.
In 2005, Congress passed and President Bush signed the Renewable Fuel Standards Act. This act was an attempt by the government to influence the free market by requiring a portion of our fuel supply to be composed of renewable fuels—in other words, ethanol. The farmers and the ethanol producers loved the new law. They predicted it would boost the market for their crops/product by creating a new government mandate. The law certainly did that!
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Ethics Bowl Creative Inquiry: the Doors it Can Open
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| Courtney Dixon |
First call for nominations: 2013 Bringing Ethics Into Focus Award
Consider nominating a person or organization that, according to institute director Daniel Wueste, “are challenging us to a greater awareness of ethics in our decision-making, our policies and our actions.”
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| Dr. Ida Spruill |
Look for more information in the upcoming months on when and how to nominate!
The promise of a partnership on medical ethics with GHS
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| Dr. Kelly Smith |
The Rutland Institute has launched a major new medical ethics initiative in partnership with the Greenville Hospital System. GHS wants to develop an ethics education program, which brings the entire campus together within a shared mission and set of conceptual tools. Dr. Kelly Smith, one of our Lemon Fellows, has been working intensively with GHS since the beginning of the summer to develop content and delivery methods for the new medical school curriculum, graduate medical education, and support services. “This is a really fascinating challenge,” said Dr. Smith, “The opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a new medical school is very rare and the administration of GHS is deeply committed to developing a student centered curriculum which is truly transformative.”
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2012-2013 Presidential Colloquium - Adding Value: Exploring the Means and the End
As posted on the Rutland Institute for Ethics webpage: “The theme of this year’s Presidential Colloquium, “Adding Value: Exploring the Means and the End,” was chosen with an eye to complementarity during the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of integration at Clemson. The theme is intentionally broad so that it can encompass discussion of the ways in which inclusion or diversity enriches an organization along with other ways of adding value, e.g., values-based leadership, innovation, promoting the arts, or encouraging entrepreneurial thinking and activity. In some cases, adding value is a project undertaken quite deliberately; in others it is an unintended but most welcome result.”
RIE co-sponsors Inaugural W.E. Lead events
On October 25 and 26 the Rutland Institute for Ethics co-sponsored several inaugural events for the Women Empowered to Lead Lecture Series.
Ethics Challenges and Responses
An interesting update from Reuters about Big tobacco companies resisting admissions of wrongdoing appeared on October 15:
This was right after coming back from presenting the Rutland Ethics Toolbox approach and decision framework at the first biomedical association national congress in Kumasi, Ghana. It may be a country only a fraction of the size of the USA (24 million), but Ghana took a mighty step in July, passing a law that bans smoking in all public places. While it goes much farther than any such law that would ever be passed in the USA, I can tell you that I saw no related trash and the leaders care deeply about the health of their fellow countrymen, especially youth.
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From the Director
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| Dr. Daniel E. Wueste |
I
returned from Australia on July 2. I had
been there to do some work with faculty and graduate students in the School of
Management at the University of South Australia and to give one of the keynote talks at the 19th annual meeting of the Australian Association for
Professional and Applied Ethics at St. Johns College, University of Queensland
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Ethics and Leadership: An Executive’s Perspective; David Locke
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| David Locke |
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News of Note
Be sure to view the new video featuring President
Barker introducing the Rutland Institute for Ethics by clicking on the above link and on either of our websites:
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Institute Welcomes New Members to the Advisory Board
With each new fiscal year the Rutland Institute for Ethics
welcomes members who begin their 3-year terms on the advisory board. This year
we welcome the following leaders to the advisory board:
Kelly Durham
Susan McCracken
Toby Stansell
Correspondingly, the institute bids farewell to advisory board members who have completed their three-year terms. This year we express our gratitude to the following leaders for their service on the advisory board:
Michele Brinn
Peggy Deane
David Locke
To view photos and bios of any of our advisory board members, ex-officios and members emeritus, visit our institute’s website Read more...
Research Ethics / Responsible Conduct of Research
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Ethics and Creativity in Business – a podcast conversation
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| Linda Gallicchio |
Since she did periodic shows on Your Day, she asked that I have a conversation with her about the value of ethics when it comes to creativity. If you are so inclined, you may listen to the approximately 12 minute interview (click here) Read more...
The Contribution That Can Keep On Giving
The benefit allows REALeaders to provide some welcome recognition and professional development to a teacher at a school or within a school district of their choosing. We currently have two teachers registered to attend because of scholarships and several other school districts have their principals determining a teacher they’d like to send. It seems like it will be an effective way to spread the philosophy and teaching tools to train more K-12 teachers to comfortably guide their classes through some thorny ethical topics.
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Ethics Challenges and Responses
Cheating on State Testing Programs
This is a June 25th
article in Ethisphere. Detailed in the article is a tragedy of epic scale
across the public schools in our nation. The International Center for AcademicIntegrity (within the Rutland Institute) celebrates its 20th year in
2012. The majority of its work has focused on “the academy” (colleges and
universities), but it has also worked with high schools and some middle schools.
Meth, money and lobbying: Guess who’s the biggest spender again?
Kentucky is a state with a huge methamphetamine
abuse problem. This editorial outlines how pharmaceutical companies, through
their lobbying association, used their money and influence with legislators to water
down laws to limit the sale of an essential drug used to make meth. How many
other similar issues occur in the legislatures across the country?
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It's a new (fiscal) year. A GREAT time to join the Rutland Ethics Alliance!
It’s never too late; actually, it is always the right time to make a contribution to the institute or to join the Rutland Ethics Alliance. Please consider us this year in your giving.
From the Director
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| Dr. Daniel E. Wueste |
In the previous issue of Issues and Perspectives I wrote about the Creative Inquiry course, Phil 492-001, Revising rules and regulations in the interest of integrity, that I would be teaching this spring with some help from President Barker. Classes have ended now, but, for more than one reason, I think it’s appropriate for me to say a bit more about the Creative Inquiry here.
One of the themes of the CI was that the challenges the NCAA faces in making, enforcing, or revising rules are quite like those encountered by any organization that seeks to govern conduct by means of rules.
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Ethics and Leadership: An Executive’s Perspective; Joe Turner ’71 and ‘77
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| Joe Turner |
Q. How long has it been since you began First Sun Management Corporation with your partner and what has been your particular passion in managing and growing such a successful business?
A. My business partner, Kelly Durham, and I began First Sun Management in late 1989 with six investors. Several years later we bought them out. Clearly our passion in managing our business has been to create an environment where people can succeed.
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Beyond Good Guys and Bad Guys
It is easy to blame the “bad guys” for what’s wrong with our communities. Greedy developers, heartless bureaucrats, “Not-In-My-Backyard” residents, meddling tree-huggers, amoral Big Businesses – take your pick. But I’ve learned that there are very few true enemies out there. Most developers want to construct quality buildings and create a legacy, not make a quick profit. Most local officials want to safeguard citizens’ rights and conserve taxpayer funds, not squelch innovation. Most conservationists and neighborhood activists want their communities to thrive, not drive away jobs. Most executives want to be good corporate citizens, not polluters. In short, most of us want to do the right thing.
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Sustainability Equals Ethics
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| Ed Wilmont |
The word Sustainability has had a tumultuous affair with a wide cross-section of our global population, particularly so in the U.S. If you are of a particular religious belief or political ideology, sustainability represents a red flag denying citizens and corporations certain rights or limiting freedom. If you are of a different persuasion, sustainability represents environmental and social protection for not only marginalized populations but for the greater population as a whole.
The reality has been clouded by misrepresentation and broader agendas. The reality: sustainability stands for ethical conduct at its core.
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Respect
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| Tom Ward Staff Ombudsman |
What is Respect?
Respect means a lot of different things. On a practical level it seems to include taking someone's feelings, needs, thoughts, ideas, wishes and preferences into consideration. It also means taking all of these seriously and giving them worth and value. In fact, giving someone respect seems similar to valuing them and their thoughts, feelings, etc. It also includes acknowledging and listening to another person, being truthful with them, and accepting their individuality and idiosyncrasies.
Respect can be shown through behavior and it can also be felt. We can act in ways which are considered respectful, yet we can also feel respect for someone and feel respected by someone. Because it is possible to act in ways that do not reflect how we really feel, the feeling of respect is more important than the behavior without the feeling. When the feeling is there, the behavior will naturally follow.
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Ethics + High School Students: A Successful Partnership between The Rutland Institute for Ethics and Junior Achievement of Upstate SC
What would happen if you asked high school students to write about medical questions they had never before discussed, which had no wrong answers, but were judged on the quality and process of their defense for their position? If you’re lucky, you wind up with a fascinating and animated intergenerational experience.
Surely no one could disagree with authors Teddi Fishman and Lorilei Swanson in their guidebook, Teachable Moments:
Read more...Helping young people develop the ability to make sound ethical decisions and instillingin them the courage and resilience necessary to make difficult choices is a challenge sogreat that it requires a sustained, collaborative effort that involves families, schools, and communities.
Ethics Bowl Team is Second in Nation
Building on a winning tradition, “The Orange Wave” became second in the nation, missing the championship by one point, in Cincinnati on March 1st. Check out the Clemson press release via our website: http://www.clemson.edu/ethics/RIE/home.html Simply click on the news block under News and Events.
Also, for a unique perspective, APPE’s (the Association of Practical and Professional Ethics) special edition of Ethically Speaking has great coverage of the Ethics Bowl this year. Here’s the place to start: http://esspecialedition2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/sixteenth-appe-intercollegiate-ethics-bowl/ Once there, be sure to click on the top menu bar to read: “Ethics Bowl 2012: Engaging Ethics – 32 Teams, 12 Hours, 138 Winners” There are also some good photos of the team, throughout the special edition.
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RIE’s Tenth Anniversary Gala
A great time was had by all when about 160 area leaders, Clemson students, faculty and administrators came together in the old Field House at Fike Recreation Center on Tuesday, April 10th for an evening of networking, a program on Integrity, Ethics, Athletics: In It to Win It, and the inaugural presentation of the Bringing Ethics Into Focus award to Dr. Ida Spruill.
The program included a keynote address by Brad Wolverton, senior sports writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education, followed by a panel discussion he facilitated with three heads of NCAA universities – including our own President Barker.
During the reception before dinner, a poster presentation of work of the institute and that of a Creative Inquiry class co-taught by Dr. Wueste and President Barker was visited by many. For more information on the event, to view a slide show or a video from the evening, visit our website: http://www.clemson.edu/ethics/rea/news.html#latest_news
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Bringing Ethics Into Focus Award
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| Dr. Ida Spruill |
The institute’s tag line from its logo: bringing ethics into focus was the impetus for creation of a new award, which was presented for the first time at the institute’s Tenth Anniversary Gala.
Dr. Ida Spruill was selected as the recipient based upon her accomplishments in health care research resulting in dramatic health improvements in individuals and communities, primarily in the Low Country. Bob Rutland and President Barker made the presentation to Spruill, a nurse, faculty member and researcher in the College of Nursing at MUSC.
To read more about Dr. Spruill, visit our website:
and click on the news block. And, if you are already thinking about a possible nominee for the next award, you can view the original call for nominations at:
JT Barton Ethics Essay Competition Winners
The topic of this year’s essay was “The Mining Dilemma”
We congratulate this year’s winners:
1st Place: Courtney Dixon
2nd Place: Elizabeth Johnson
3rd Place: Cameron Eagles
Honorable mention: James Taylor!!!
To view the acknowledgement of the winners on our website.
To find out more about the background and past topics and winners, visit here.
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