Today’s Students

Beloit Col­lege’s 2006 Col­lege Mind­set List: This year’s enter­ing stu­dents have grown up in a coun­try where the Pres­i­dents have all been South­ern­ers, and in a world with AIDS and with­out apartheid. Sat­urns have always been on the street, the Fox Net­work has always been on tele­vi­sion, and prom dress­es have always come in basic black. The evil empire is not earth-bound, the drug “ecsta­cy” has always been avail­able, and with the breakup of AT & T, nobody has been able to com­pre­hend a phone bill.

Beloit Col­lege has released its 2006 col­lege mind­set list.

From the intro: This year’s enter­ing stu­dents have grown up in a coun­try where the Pres­i­dents have all been South­ern­ers, and in a world with AIDS and with­out apartheid. Sat­urns have always been on the street, the Fox Net­work has always been on tele­vi­sion, and prom dress­es have always come in basic black. The evil empire is not earth-bound, the drug “ecsta­cy” has always been avail­able, and with the breakup of AT & T, nobody has been able to com­pre­hend a phone bill.

Some of the more humor­ous items:
11. Bar­bie has always had a job.
14. A “Hair Band” is some sort of fash­ion acces­so­ry.
15. George Fore­man has always been a bar­be­cue grill sales­man.
21. The Unit­ed States has always been try­ing to put nuclear waste in Neva­da.

Ladies and gen­tle­men, I give you my mis­sion field!

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