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The US college campus where there are no culture wars

The college in the Californian desert where cowboys are in and campus culture wars are out

A mosh pit has formed in the middle of a disco-lit dance floor and about seven ruddy-cheeked, muddy-booted college students are throwing themselves around, screaming lyrics to a song blaring out of a port­able speaker:

I like the girls that do drugs (Drugs!) Girls with cigarettes in the back of the club (Club!) Girls that hate cops and buy guns (Guns!)Girls with no buns, girls that’s mean just for funsI like girls who make love, but I love girls who like to fuckThat’s what’s up!

One long-limbed lad in high-waisted jeans, who looks as if he slightly disapproves, has moved off the main dance floor to do some kind of tap dance with the heels of his cowboy boots. A smiling girl in a loose white dress that gives her a fresh-off-the-prairie look has taken off her hiking boots and socks and is floating around near a tall athletic boy sporting a messy blond mop and dirt-spattered Dickies boiler suit.

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