After reading my post about Randolph College’s field trip to a Nevada brothel to study American consumerism, Randolph junior Catherine Helsley wrote an extraordinary essay about what such a trip reveals about the decline of values in Academia. Ms. Helsley allowed me to share it with Hot Air readers.
As a contemporary American college student, I am rarely shocked by the daily dose of leftist viewpoints that I am exposed to, but nothing prepared me for an Associated Press story detailing a recent field trip to a
While liberalism and radical feminism are nothing new to me given my campus surroundings, I am frankly stunned that a college that once stood for traditional values and morality for so many years has succumbed to the liberal disease and reduced itself to Vegas field trips as part of the “academic experience.” Since when did prostitution become something to be glamorized and put on a pedestal? How did the “profession” of paid sex become so important that a college in financial crisis can afford to send students to study it?
If the administration of
What has to happen before parents and authority figures will finally stand up and say “enough?”
Allowing money to be spent on field trips to observe prostitution at work and ask such intellectual questions as “Do you still give a military discount?” teaches our nation’s young people that behaviors like those demonstrated in the sex industry are “OK” and an acceptable means of work. Did no one think to ask “How does your family feel about your occupation?” or “What are the emotional consequences of your behavior?” or even “Is your unwillingness to reveal your last name to us indicative of your embarrassment or shame?”
I believe that the American Culture Program at
I believe wholeheartedly that the moral fabric of this nation is fast unraveling and field trips to
It certainly appears that Randolph College has at least one clear thinker on its campus. Let’s hope more come forward.
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