Beloit College’s Mindset List for the class of 2011
Tuesday, August 28th by carlaEvery fall Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, publishes its Mindset List, helping teachers and professors understand incoming freshmen. This year’s list has 70 items. Listed below are a few that caught my attention:
Most of the students entering College this fall, members of the Class of 2011, were born in 1989. For them, Alvin Ailey, Andrei Sakharov, Huey Newton, Emperor Hirohito, Ted Bundy, Abbie Hoffman, and Don the Beachcomber have always been dead.
- What Berlin wall?
- Humvees, minus the artillery, have always been available to the public.
- Rush Limbaugh and the “Dittoheads” have always been lambasting liberals.
- They never “rolled down” a car window.
- They have grown up with bottled water.
- Nelson Mandela has always been free and a force in South Africa.
- Rap music has always been mainstream.
- Russia has always had a multi-party political system.
- They were born the year Harvard Law Review Editor Barack Obama announced he might run for office some day.
- Wal-Mart has always been a larger retailer than Sears and has always employed more workers than GM.
- Fox has always been a major network.
- MTV has never featured music videos.
