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BELOIT COLLEGE'S MINDSET LIST?®
FOR THE CLASS OF 2009 Most students entering college this fall were born in 1987. | 1.? | Andy Warhol, Liberace, Jackie Gleason, and Lee Marvin have always been dead. |
| 2.? | They don't remember when "cut and paste" involved scissors. |
| 3.? | Heart-lung transplants have always been possible. |
| 4.? | Wayne Gretzky never played for Edmonton. |
| 5.? | Boston has been working on the "The Big Dig" all their lives. |
| 6.? | With little need to practice, most of them do not know how to tie a tie. |
| 7.? | Pay-Per-View television has always been an option. |
| 8.? | They never had the fun of being thrown into the back of a station wagon with six others. |
| 9.? | Iran and Iraq have never been at war with each other. |
| 10.? | They are more familiar with Greg Gumbel than with Bryant Gumbel. |
| 11.? | Philip Morris has always owned Kraft Foods. |
| 12.? | Al-Qaida has always existed with Osama bin Laden at its head. |
| 13.? | They learned to count with Lotus 1-2-3. |
| 14.? | Car stereos have always rivaled home component systems. |
| 15.? | Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker have never preached on television. |
| 16.? | Voice mail has always been available. |
| 17.? | "Whatever" is not part of a question but an expression of sullen rebuke. |
| 18.? | The federal budget has always been more than a trillion dollars. |
| 19.? | Condoms
have always been advertised on television. |
| 20. | They may have fallen asleep playing with their Gameboys in the crib. |
| 21.? | They have always had the right to burn the flag. |
| 22.? | For daily caffeine emergencies, Starbucks has always been around the corner. |
| 23.? | Ferdinand Marcos has never been in charge of the Philippines. |
| 24.? | Money put in their savings account the year they were born earned almost 7% interest. |
| 25.? | Bill Gates has always been worth at least a billion dollars. |
| 26.? | Dirty dancing has always been acceptable. |
| 27.? | Southern fried chicken, prepared with a blend of 11 herbs and spices, has always been available
in China. |
| 28.? | Michael Jackson has always been bad, and greed has always been good. |
| 29.? | The Starship Enterprise has always looked dated. |
| 30.? | Pixar has always existed. |
| 31. | There has never been a "fairness doctrine" at the FCC. |
| 32.? | Judicial appointments routinely have been "Borked." |
| 33.? | Aretha Franklin has always been in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. |
| 34.? | There have always been zebra mussels in the Great Lakes. |
| 35.? | Police have always been able to search garbage without a search warrant. |
| 36.? | It has always been possible to walk from England to mainland Europe on dry land. |
| 37.? | They have grown up in a single superpower world. |
| 38.? | They missed the oat bran diet craze. |
| 39.? | American Motors has never existed. |
| 40.? | Scientists have always been able to see supernovas. |
| 41.? | Les Miserables has always been on stage. |
| 42.? | Halogen lights have always been available at home, with a warning. |
| 43.? | "Baby M" may be a classmate, and contracts with surrogate mothers have always been legal. |
| 44.? | RU486, the "morning after pill," has always been on the market. |
| 45.? | There has always been a pyramid in front of the Louvre in Paris. |
| 46.? | British Airways has always been privately owned. |
| 47.? | Irradiated food has always been available but controversial. |
| 48.? | Snowboarding has always been a popular winter pastime. |
| 49.? | Libraries have always been the best centers for computer technology and access to good software. |
| 50.? | Biosphere 2 has always been trying to create a revolution in the life sciences. |
| 51.? | The Hubble Telescope has always been focused on new frontiers. |
| 52.? | Researchers have always been looking for stem cells. |
| 53.? | They do not remember "a kinder and gentler nation." |
| 54.? | They never saw the shuttle Challenger fly. |
| 55.? | The TV networks have always had cable partners. |
| 56.? | Airports have always had upscale shops and restaurants. |
| 57.? | Black Americans have always been known as African-Americans. |
| 58.? | They never saw Pat Sajak or Arsenio
Hall host a late night television show. |
| 59.? | Matt Groening has always had a Life in Hell. |
| 60.? | Salman Rushdie has always been watching over his shoulder. |
| 61.? | Digital cameras have always existed. |
| 62.? | Tom Landry never coached the Cowboys. |
| 63.? | Time Life and Warner Communications have always been joined. |
| 64.? | CNBC has always been on the air. |
| 65.? | The Field of Dreams has always been drawing people to Iowa. |
| 66.? | They never saw a Howard Johnson's with 28 ice cream flavors. |
| 67.? | Reindeer at Christmas have always distinguished between secular and religious decorations. |
| 68.? | Entertainment Weekly has always been on the newsstand. |
| 69.? | Lyme Disease has always been a ticking concern in the woods. |
| 70.? | Jimmy Carter has always been an elder statesman. |
| 71.? | Miss Piggy and Kermit have always dwelt in Disneyland. |
| 72.? | America's Funniest
Home Videos has always been on television. |
| 73.? | Their nervous new parents heard C. Everett Koop proclaim nicotine as addictive as heroin. |
| 74.? | Lever has always been looking for 2000 parts to clean. |
| 75.? | They have always been challenged to distinguish between news and entertainment on cable TV. |
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