Beloit's "Mindset List" for the class of 2011


	Beloit's "Mindset List" for the class of 2011
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8-30-2007 6:02 PM
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enbar says:
Each year, Beloit publishes its "mindset list": things incoming freshmen can't remember or have always known that blow their professors' minds! (Examples: there's never been a Berlin Wall; Fox has always been a major network.) Here's this year's.
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/df08bb7c-e657-47a8-bcc6-7a795789f43f/C06FB849-4279-4259-85EA-908E14513CB0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php" href="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.beloit.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><STRONG>BELOIT COLLEGE'S MINDSET LIST® 
FOR THE CLASS OF 2011</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">What       Berlin       wall?<IMG width="166" height="125" align="right" alt="Berlin Wall" src="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/images/2011/BerlinWall.jpg" /></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><DIV>Humvees,       minus the artillery, have always been available to the public.</DIV>
<IMG width="150" height="113" align="right" alt="Humvee" src="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/images/2011/Humvee.jpg" />
</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Rush       Limbaugh and the “Dittoheads” have always been lambasting liberals.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">They       never “rolled down” a car window. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">They       have grown up with bottled water.<IMG width="100" height="150" align="right" alt="Bottled Water" src="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/images/2011/BottledWater.jpg" /></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Nelson       Mandela has always been free and a force in South Africa. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Rap       music has always been mainstream.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">“Off       the hook” has never had anything to do with a telephone.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Music       has always been “unplugged.”</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Wal-Mart       has always been a larger retailer than Sears and has always employed more       workers than GM.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Multigrain       chips have always provided healthful junk food. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">They       grew up in Wayne’s       World.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">U2       has always been more than a spy plane.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">They       were introduced to Jack Nicholson as “The Joker.”</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Fox       has always been a major network. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Microbreweries       have always been ubiquitous.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">They       get much more information from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert than from       the newspaper. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Food       packaging has always included nutritional labeling.<IMG width="150" height="177" align="right" alt="Nutritional Label" src="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/images/2011/NutrtionalLabel.jpg" /></LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C06FB849-4279-4259-85EA-908E14513CB0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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