http://www.campusprogress.org/page/community/tag_rss/brothels/html <p>Via <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/04/14/brothel.field.trip.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview">CNN</a>:</p><p>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.</p><blockquote><p> The brothel tour was a natural fit for a class that tells students &quot;don't just study America -- live it,&quot; said Julio Rodriguez, the director of the college's American Culture Program.</p><p> 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.</p><p> This year's focus on <a href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/Nevada">Nevada</a> 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.</p></blockquote><p>The most scandalous field trip I ever made was a trip to the local waste management facility.<br /> </p><p>&nbsp;</p> http://www.campusprogress.org/page/community/post/Kayla/CLmZ http://www.campusprogress.org/page/community/post/Kayla/CLmZ/commentary#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:38:12 EDT http://www.campusprogress.org/page/community/post/Kayla/CLmZ Kayla Kayla Hofstra University 0 http://www.campusprogress.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLmZ/