Interesting article .... it's not what you think the title of the post may imply.

God that would be great. But the culture shock is exactly what I've heard from Peace Corps volunteers: all you need is a school-sized backpack for clothes and some persnals, a way to get food, and some sort of blanket. Everything else is pretty secondary outside of that.

finally a course that sounds itresting enough to keep me awake and paying attention.

I don't remember that class being on the class list when i was at SLU. Then again I only made it through three semesters. Sounds like a good class and a good way to get student's to have a different perspective.

Hmm, seems to me a crash course replacement for a good scouting program. College age is a little too late for my tastes for young'uns to start learning about realities of the natural world, and I dare say one fall in the Adirondaks may leave an impression, but won't likely change their world that much. Maybe so, but still I would like to make it a bit more routine and durable than that.

Still, something's better'n nothing I suppose. I reckon if you shipped a lot of them folks I come across in Manhattan up to the Delaware drainage regularly they might have a bit better attitude about some things.