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If attendance is an indicator, the search for answers to everyday ethical problems is of high interest on campus.  The KJ auditorium was at capacity for Tuesday's presentation, "Virtue and Advice: A Roundtable Discussion of Everyday Ethical Problems."  Senior Ginny Berg observed, "The attendance showed that Hamilton's community has many far reaching ethical concerns that they are willing to talk about."

New York Times Magazine columnist Randy Cohen was joined by Roderick Long, assistant professor in philosophy at Auburn University; Amie Macdonald, assistant professor of philosophy at CUNY; and Hamilton chaplain Jeff McArn.  The panel addressed many thought-provoking issues related to individual liberty versus community good, equality and difference, rules and exceptions, and dilemmas of divided loyalties.   Some of the questions tackled by the panelists concerned honesty about one's sexual orientation, grading decisions, and maintenance of a confidence related to a probable crime.  

Berg summarized the evening with this comment: "Regardless of whether or not I agreed with a panelist's answer to a question, they brought humor and insight to the topics raised, and the panel left everyone with questions to consider after it was finished." 

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