Beloit College has released their mindlist for the class of 2011. Here are some of the items on the list
- What Berlin wall?
- 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.
- “Off the hook” has never had anything to do with a telephone.
- They were introduced to Jack Nicholson as “The Joker.”
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