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Harvard debate team loses to Upstate NY Prison team
Posted on 10/7/15 at 10:32 am
Posted on 10/7/15 at 10:32 am
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Next up, a debate with the parole board? The Ivy League's finest debate team was defeated by a team of prisoners from a maximum-security prison in New York state. The three-man Eastern New York Correctional Facility team was declared the winner on Sept. 18 after debating for an hour with Harvard's team, which won the national title this year, the AP reports. In a Facebook post, the Harvard undergraduates said they were proud to lose to the "phenomenally intelligent and articulate team" of inmates. The prison team—which wasn't allowed to use the Internet for research—made the case against allowing undocumented children into public schools, a position with which they personally disagreed.
The three inmates, who are all serving time in Napanoch, N.Y., for violent crimes, have been studying as part of an initiative led by nearby Bard College. Before last month's Harvard debate, they had already scored victories against West Point and a University of Vermont team, reports the Wall Street Journal
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Posted on 10/7/15 at 10:33 am to NYNolaguy1
that's actually pretty cool. Too bad they chose crime and not something else though.
Posted on 10/7/15 at 10:34 am to NYNolaguy1
This is funny, but doesn't college debate have a whole bunch of quirky rules?
Posted on 10/7/15 at 10:35 am to NYNolaguy1
Is the debate team coach going to get fired?
Posted on 10/7/15 at 10:36 am to NYNolaguy1
What a bunch of morons.
Posted on 10/7/15 at 10:36 am to NYNolaguy1
Well to be fair, they did have more time to prepare...
Posted on 10/7/15 at 10:38 am to NYNolaguy1
Too much time on their hands...
Posted on 10/7/15 at 10:39 am to NYNolaguy1
Without clicking the link, is this one of those stupid fricking debates where they yell gibberish and shite and call it modern debate tactics?
Posted on 10/7/15 at 10:45 am to TigerFanatic99
Prisoners know how to focus, I mean they had limited outside distractions.
Posted on 10/7/15 at 10:46 am to NYNolaguy1
Harvard is overrated
Posted on 10/7/15 at 10:48 am to TigerFanatic99
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Without clicking the link, is this one of those stupid fricking debates where they yell gibberish and shite and call it modern debate tactics?
I got the impression that it was a point, counterpoint, rebuttal sort of debate.
Posted on 10/7/15 at 10:56 am to NYNolaguy1
They made those Harvard dudes thier bitch
Posted on 10/7/15 at 10:59 am to NYNolaguy1
So the inmates beat Harvard's debate team in a completely subjective competition? Let's see how they compare on the SATs or any objective competition of intelligence.
Posted on 10/7/15 at 10:59 am to NYNolaguy1
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made the case against allowing undocumented children into public schools,
Cool story, but seems like an easy case to make...
Posted on 10/7/15 at 11:01 am to NYNolaguy1
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Harvard debate team loses to Upstate NY Prison team
Posted on 10/7/15 at 11:06 am to NYNolaguy1
I"ll skip over the obvious questions/observations and ask...how did this even start? Like, how did Ivy League schools first think, "hmmm let's take our team to play some other folks...how bout the nearest prison?"
Posted on 10/7/15 at 11:07 am to NYNolaguy1
I imagine they have a lot of time to practice.
Posted on 10/7/15 at 11:08 am to NYNolaguy1
quote:i just bought the movie rights
Harvard debate team loses to Upstate NY Prison team
Posted on 10/7/15 at 11:08 am to yellowhammer2098
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So the inmates beat Harvard's debate team in a completely subjective competition? Let's see how they compare on the SATs or any objective competition of intelligence
What difference would that make? They won the competition at hand. I'm willing to bet that they're not retarded
Posted on 10/7/15 at 11:11 am to yellowhammer2098
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So the inmates beat Harvard's debate team in a completely subjective competition? Let's see how they compare on the SATs or any objective competition of intelligence.
So you think all prisoners are stupid,
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