Harvard debate team loses to team of inmates

[BrometheusBob.]

Months after winning a national title, Harvard’s debate team has fallen to a group of New York prison inmates.

The showdown took place at the Eastern correctional facility in New York, a maximum-security prison where convicts can take courses taught by faculty from nearby Bard College, and where inmates have formed a popular debate club. Last month they invited the Ivy League undergraduates and this year’s national debate champions over for a friendly competition.

Really cool to see what people can do when provided the opportunity to develop themselves. I'm not saying all inmates can or deserve to be truly rehabilitated but there could certainly be more done to empower people enough to avoid ending up back in prison as so many criminals wind up doing.

http://www.theguardian.com/education...ates?CMP=fb_gu

[Build That Wall]

[-Kev-]

I heard they were like "The rent...IS TOO DAMN HIGH" and they won.

[BrometheusBob.]

I heard they were like "The rent...IS TOO DAMN HIGH" and they won.

Well shiet..... the rent IS too dam high

[Eff Pandas]

Was the topic the best way to do a B&E without getting caught?

[Sweet Pea 50]

Guarantee there will be a movie made about it.



Morgan Freeman in....

[jaded]

After the debate the inmate team raped the Harvard debate team.

[betmen]

i can see this happening eaily, inmates aren't alwys bunch thugs dumb criminal.

maybe the inmates are crooked lawyers, genius psychopats, con artist or the brain behind criminal empire.

[Rudyo]

i can see this happening eaily, inmates aren't alwys bunch thugs dumb criminal.

maybe the inmates are crooked lawyers, genius psychopats, con artist or the brain behind criminal empire.

Yeah, prison conmen put like Don Draper to shame.

[betmen]

Yeah, prison conmen put like Don Draper to shame.

yeah best example are steven russel the conman who escape jail multiple times, when he get a job as CEO of NAMM he was so good at his job even his boss said he was the best CEO they ever had, excluding the fraud of course.

even though he only have high school diploma