Posted on 08/19/2008 10:09:14 AM PDT by peggybac
This month, almost 2 million first-year students will head off to college campuses around the country. Most of them will be about 18 years old, born in 1990 when headlines sounded oddly familiar to those of today: Rising fuel costs were causing airlines to cut staff and flight schedules; Big Three car companies were facing declining sales and profits; and a president named Bush was increasing the number of troops in the Middle East in the hopes of securing peace. However, the mindset of this new generation of college students is quite different from that of the faculty about to prepare them to become the leaders of tomorrow.
Each August for the past 11 years, Beloit College in Beloit, Wis., has released the Beloit College Mindset List. It provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college.
The class of 2012 has grown up in an era where computers and rapid communication are the norm, and colleges no longer trumpet the fact that residence halls are “wired” and equipped with the latest hardware. These students will hardly recognize the availability of telephones in their rooms since they have seldom utilized landlines during their adolescence. They will continue to live on their cell phones and communicate via texting. Roommates, few of whom have ever shared a bedroom, have already checked out each other on Facebook where they have shared their most personal thoughts with the whole world.
It is a multicultural, politically correct and “green” generation that has hardly noticed the threats to their privacy...
Students entering college for the first time this fall were generally born in 1990.
For these students, Sammy Davis Jr., Jim Henson, Ryan White, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Freddy Krueger have always been dead.
(Excerpt) Read more at beloit.edu ...
These students will have a big advantage because they are the first generation to understand what “is is” and that oral sex isnt really sex.
This has got to be the most inane list I have ever read. The fact that the Royal New Zealand Navy does not serve its sailors rum? Who cares? Whether they ever did or not, did any generation ever know or care?
I notice there was nothing in here about sexuality, which is probably one of the most sad changes; they never grew up in a time when homosexuality was considered wrong by society in general (not just the religious) and how about this is a generation that often has NO intact marriages going back three generations. I’ve met kids these days whose parents are divorced, their grandparents are divorced and their GREAT grandparents are divorced.
yeah. They’re bringing sexy back too, you forgot that.
I agree a better job can be done...
I bet we could all come up with a better list.
Michel Jackson has always been a white pedophile
There has always been a Clinton or a Bush in the White House
Carbon Dioxide is a dangerous pollutant that will kill us all
First the Lash, then Rum. Can Buggery be far behind?
Here’s some more:
Desert Storm is probably beyond most students’ memory.
Manuel Noriega was never an ally of the US
More fresh meat for the grinder.
The Class of 2012 will be the last, according to the Mayan calendar!
57. Off-shore oil drilling in the United States has always been prohibited.
Glad to see there is no politics involved from this Liberal Arts School?
“58. Radio stations have never been required to present both sides of public issues.”
Darn that pesky free speech!
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