Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List , providing perspective for us old timers on how students just entering college see the world. For the Class of 2014:
1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive.12. Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry.
21. Woody Allen, whose heart has wanted what it wanted, has always been with Soon-Yi Previn.
32. Czechoslovakia has never existed.
38. Bud Selig has always been the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
43. Russians and Americans have always been living together in space.
52. There have always been women priests in the Anglican Church.
71. The nation has never approved of the job Congress is doing.
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