The Challenges of Ethics in Sports

Parr Center for Ethics & Department of Athletics Public Discussion

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

September 20, 2006

Ethics in sports is a topic with universal appeal. Never has this been truer than today when the media spotlight is turned on ethics in sports on a daily basis. Sports are designed to develop self respect and respect for others through empathy, integrity and sportsmanship. It is in competition as a mutual challenge to achieve excellence where these are learned and exemplified.

The Parr Center for Ethics, UNC Department of Athletics, UNC Sport Clubs, Department of Exercise and Sport Science, Department of Philosophy and the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs will sponsor a two-hour Public Discussion on the ethics of competition in sports.

Location: Fetzer Gym 109, 7:30 p.m.

Click on the link to view the article of this event featured in the Daily Tar Heel: "It's not whether you win or lose"

Panelists include:

Joe Ehrmann, a former NFL football player and now volunteer football coach at the Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland

William Friday, President Emeritus of the University of North Carolina System

Richard Baddour, Athletics Director at UNC-CH

Rosalind Fuse-Hall, Executive Assistant to the Chancellor of North Carolina Central University

Kathleen K. Smith, Professor of Biology and Faculty Athletics Representive at Duke University

Charlotte Smith, Assistant Women's Basketball Coach at UNC-CH and professional WNBA player

Joseph Dailey, UNC Football Student Athlete

Jan Boxill, Director of the Parr Center for Ethics will moderate the discussion