Picture this: you have just dropped your kid off at Amherst College in Massachusetts, one of those prestigious places costing £70,000 a year. You are probably thinking they will get a world-class education and make lifelong friends. What you're definitely not expecting is for them to watch older students simulate sex acts on stage whilst moaning loudly and pretending to get high. But that is exactly what happened at Amherst's annual orientation event, and students are furious.
The 'Voices of the Class' show is not some rogue student production. This is official college business. The school pays for it. Administrators encourage first-years to turn up. And it happens in the chapel, which feels like it should mean something.
