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Each fall Beloit College compiles a report to help faculty and staff understand the minds belonging to the fresh faces gracing the nation’s campuses. This year’s list reveals these characteristics of students in this year’s incoming class, most of them born in 1982:
- Since they were born, every Republican ticket except one has included somebody named George Bush;
- The Kennedy tragedy refers to a plane crash, not an assassination;
- Huckleberry Finn has always been banned;
- A “45” is a gun, not a vinyl record;
- M*A*S*H and The Muppet Show have always been in rerun;
- We have always been able to reproduce DNA in a laboratory;
- There have always been automated teller machines;
- Sen. Phil Gramm has always been
a Republican; - There has always been a national holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr.;
- Bear Bryant never coached at Alabama; and
- Spam and cookies are not necessarily foods.
A federal appeals court recently upheld the University of Mississippi rule barring spectators from waving Confederate battle flags at football games. The rule prohibits people from entering the stadium with any flag larger than 12 inches by 14 inches that is on a stick. The school instituted the ban for safety reasons. The policy also bans umbrellas and alcohol. Flags not on sticks and other items displaying the Confederate flag, such as hats, shirts and blankets, are still allowed.
--Matthew Winston
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