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Every year Beloit College releases its Mindset List which offers a world view of today's entering college students. According to co-editor Tom McBride, Keefer professor of the Humanities, this thought-provoking list is distributed to the faculty at the liberal arts college during the New Student Days orientation, to give faculty a better understanding of the cultural attitudes of the incoming class. For example, once upon a time faculty could talk about the Watergate scandal. This list reminds them that they now have to explain and provide background information about it first.
On the average,...