This document presents a scenario where an avian flu has wiped out the global population except for 13 people who have taken shelter in a bunker. However, the bunker can only sustain 4 people for the 2 years needed to outlive the virus. The group must decide which 4 individuals out of the 13 should be allowed to stay in the bunker based on their professions and circumstances. These include a scientist, priest, married couple who are drug addicts, single mother, mentally unstable soldier, elderly woman, disabled person, lawyer, welfare dependent, doctor, and university professor. The document prompts the reader to argue for which lives should be spared and listen to other arguments before making a decision.

1. Survivor
This activity serves as an icebreaker to the course and provides an
introduction to integrative (critical) thinking. Additionally, because this topic may be
somewhat controversial, ideally first year students will discuss it outside of class, which
will help promote the perception that FYS sections contain some standardization.
The Avian Flu has just wiped out the entire planet’s population, except for 13 people
who find themselves to be the only people left on the earth. They manage to all make it
to a safe bunker. In order to outlive the virus, they need to survive 2 years. Only 4 can
be accommodated in the bunker. Eight will have to be expelled because there are not
enough resources for all of them to survive.
If all stay, resources will sustain them for a maximum period of six months.
In the bunker, there are the following facilities:
Explain who you think should live, and present your case to the rest of the group.
Argue for their life unless you want to sacrifice them for the others. Listen to the
arguments from the rest of your group as well, and challenge them to define their
positions.
a. scientist
b. priest
c. married couple who are hippies and drug addicts
d. a single pregnant woman with a 5 year old girl

2. e. a army officer who has mental instability of some sort but is useful nonetheless
f. an elderly woman
g. a disabled person
h. lawyer
i. lazy welfare dependent
j. doctor
k. university professor
It is possible to make connections and describe dependencies between select
Individual domains. There may not be clear links between all domains, but with
some deep and creative (aka “critical!”) thinking, one can draw several connections.
For this assignment my group choose different people to survive. We killed off all the others
and picked which ones would be the best to survive.