9:30-:30                                                                                                                 
Demonstration

Ethics Bowl
Ian Corey, Gabriel Norwood, Jaclyn Flaherty, Dante Camacho, Kara Crisafulli, Conor Hannon, Alex Thenin

Ethics Bowl is a national competitive speaking event that Franklin Pierce students have been participating in since 2006. Members of the FPU Ethics Bowl Team will face off against each other, answering difficult ethical questions drawn from current ethical topics ranging from academic freedom to international affairs.

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11:00-12:00                                                                                                               
Roundtable

Political Science: Students Experience and Cover Politics
Alexander Malm, Margaret Bell, Ronald J. Cooper III, Alexander Powell, Joshua Roberts, Jonathan Spall

Throughout the course of the election season, Franklin Pierce students have attended a wide range of political events and covered many of these events for the university media and the Boston Herald. These events have ranged from town hall meetings and primaries/caucuses and the party conventions and have gone all the way to students covering the Inauguration from the steps of the Capital.  This presentation will be a round table discussion with Political Science students who have covered political events.  The purpose of this discussion is for the students to discuss the effects and impact of covering political events on their understanding of political processes and political science.

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1:00-2:30                                                                                                             
Roundtable

Can Democracy Survive Fake News?

Christine Cliff: “Who and What to Trust?”
Paul Jenkins: “Fake News and Information Literacy”
Allan Rachlin: “Promoting a Culture of Citizenship That Promotes Democracy”
Phyllis Zrzavy: “Post-Truth Is About Post-Trust: Understanding Why People Distrust News, and What Can be Done About It”

If democracy requires an informed citizenry, how might the people of the United States acquire information about the world that will enable them to be responsible citizens? ‘Keeping up’ with what’s going on in the world becomes increasingly challenging when we are uncertain about the accuracy of information and the reliability of its sources.  In an environment of misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, fake news … how do we fulfill our responsibility of informed participation? Panelists will discuss the meaning of fake news, how to identify such news, and the consequences of fake news to the function of democracy.  Following short presentations by panelists, all attendees are encouraged to join the discussion.

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3:00-4:00                                                                                                                               
Paper

Business Start-Up Deliverables for a Jaffrey Community-Based Butcher/Bakery Shop
Benjamin Mead, Catherine Charette, Dimitri Elias, Andrea Fahey, Madison Finlay, Cameron Gilbert, Nicholas Kozel, Johnathen Matlock, Shannon O’Leary, Collin Skinner, Raynika Wilcox

The Franklin Pierce University Small Business Advisory Group (SBA) will be presenting business start-up initiatives for Hiyam Makarios, who will be launching a start-up butcher/bakery shop in Jaffrey. She intends to build partnerships with local food producers and farms that are primarily focused on sustainable/organic best practices. Hiyam is a very energetic community player, who has secured the full support from town officials, and is partnering with Conant High School students to help refurbish the space she intends to lease. Some of the businesses deliverables the SBA team will be presenting include a new trade name and logo, a new website linked to appropriate social media platforms, and an inventory and daily accounting management system.