The fact that it has now become a college course for credit is a failure of vast proportions and stain on the legacy of AmeriKa and its elite rulers:
"Students learn about homeless through service project" by Dan Morse | Washington Post October 19, 2014
WASHINGTON — In the summer before their freshman year, incoming students at Gettysburg receive a course catalogue of options. Reading over the material in Long Island, the homeless course attracted the attention of Morven Whalley.
The class has 13 required books, all with themes of homelessness. Among them: ‘‘The Grapes of Wrath’’ and ‘‘Ironweed.’’ Then this:
‘‘The keystone of the course will be a four-day group service-learning trip . . . in Washington, D.C.,’’ the course description reads. ‘‘Most importantly, we will meet and work with many people who are or who have been homeless.’’ Students also provide service to homeless people in Gettysburg: volunteering at a soup kitchen and a shelter and tutoring.
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Gettysburg College professor Christopher Fee and his students were on their way to D.C. Central Kitchen to help staff members prepare some of the 5,000 meals for the needy. This visit marks the 12th consecutive year that Fee has brought students to Washington from his Pennsylvania school as part of the homeless class. Its aims go well beyond a student service trip. Students work next to homeless people, sleep next to them in shelters, and get to know them.
As the professor walked, he realized that his students had overlooked something important: Like so many people, they had been so busy getting from point A to point B, perhaps distracted by something like the weather, that they had missed a chance to extend a simple measure of dignity. He stopped his students.
‘‘So how many of us said ‘Hello’ to that nice gentleman back there?’’ he asked.
They said little, and looked at one another.
‘‘OK, let’s work on that,’’ he responded.
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