NY inmates crush Harvard’s title-winning debate team

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

The showdown took place at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility, 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.

The Harvard debate team also was crowned world champions in 2014. But the inmates are building a reputation of their own. In the two years since they started a debate club, the prisoners have beaten teams from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the University of Vermont. The competition with West Point, which is now an annual affair, has grown into a rivalry.

Just goes to show they had an Ass for a Lawyer !  ::LOL::


"in propria persona" or "in pro per" are typed where normally it would say "attorney for plaintiff."

Judges sometimes warn a party "in propria persona" of the old adage that "anyone who represents himself in court

has a fool for a client and an ass for an attorney."

Just goes to show....these chaps have all the time in the world to study...thankfully they became smarter after the crime. ;D

Debating is not a subject in your study curriculum.

its an after school aka extra curricular activity! 

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that you were not in de Debating society at college  ::LOL::

??? The criminals???? College??? 

not a good rebuttal  !


When two people debate, one of them makes an argument, and the other follows with a rebuttal,

which, plainly put, is the "no, you're wrong and this is why" argument. 

Dude, who is debating what? I was stating that the prisoners have all the time on their hands...not sure what you are talking about.

You said to study as in a curriculum of subjects

debating is not a subject in a curriculum : it is an extra curricular activity with a Society formed to compete

Samjay ?

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The criminals have time to study....research call it what you want...what don't you understand? Man me ain't able argue over chupidness...