A dozen Randolph College students visited the Chicken Ranch, a legal brothel ouside Las Vegas, last week as part of a course on American consumption.
The brothel tour was a natural fit for a class that tells students "don't just study America -- live it," said Julio Rodriguez, the director of the college's American Culture Program.
Each semester the course examines a strain of American culture and ends with a class trip. Past destinations included post-Katrina New Orleans, Walt Disney World and the Civil Rights Memorial Center in Montgomery, Alabama.
This year's focus on Nevada started with a professor's interest in water rights and conservation. It grew to include discussions of the wedding and entertainment industries and, inevitably, prostitution.
The most scandalous field trip I ever made was a trip to the local waste management facility.
Every so often I will stumble across a book which I feel is so relevant and important, that I must unrelentingly try to get others to pick it up. And, although this does not happen often, as many books come and go as quickly as pop stars from stardom to bust-- I have managed to come up on two of he most important books that I have certainly read in the last two years.
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