Pick Me. Love Me. Save Me.

Two years in a row I heard that that the Raft Debate was a great thing to attend and today I finally found out first hand. The premise of the Raft Debate is that four academics are stranded on an island with a single raft big only enough for one person. The Humanities professor, the Natural & Computational Science professor, and the Social Science professor try to convince the audience that they should be saved while the Devil's Advocate argues that none should be saved. It was a fun way to get people thinking about the strengths, challenges, and roles of the disciplines and maybe get people to take themselves a little less seriously.