Beloit College?s “Mindset List” has become a rite of fall. Each list (such as the one being released today) offers examples of things that an 18-year-old arriving on campus would and would not have experienced. Names of some people who were significant to their parents? generation (this year Dean Martin and Jerry Garcia, among others) have “always been dead.” In theory, professors and administrators get a reminder not to assume that the new students on campus share their cultural and historic signposts.
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