Mindset List 2011

Beloit College: Mindset List 2011

Beloit College is back again this year with its Mindset List for the graduating class of 2011. Here are a dozen of my favorite items from the list.

• 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.
• Nelson Mandela has always been free and a force in South Africa.
• Russia has always had a multi-party political system.
• Wal-Mart has always been a larger retailer than Sears and has always employed more workers than GM.
• Al Gore has always been running for president or thinking about it.
• U2 has always been more than a spy plane.
• Women’s studies majors have always been offered on campus.
• Tiananmen Square is a 2008 Olympics venue, not the scene of a massacre.
• MTV has never featured music videos.