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Volunteers switch roles, experience life in poverty

Written by Anastasia Erbe, Staff Writer
Published: Monday, February 26th, 2007

"Welcome to Realville," Angela Degraff said to a crowd of about 50 people Saturday morning.

They were gathered in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber for "Realville," a poverty simulation complete with paper money, "stores" and a "jail" stocked with handcuffs ...

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  • 2:18 p.m. on Feb. 2nd, 2010
    Posted by
    Sean

    This is one of the most inane, arrogant, conceited misadventures I've ever seen undertaken in an attempt to understand a world problem. This would not give ANYONE a real understanding of what life is like for the poverty-stricken- this is simply an exercise in self-delusion. Good job guys, pat yourselves on the backs; no one else is going to.

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