Smells like techno spirit for new intake

These are 바카라사이트 views of 바카라사이트 latest crop of 18-year-old students entering universities across 바카라사이트 US, according to this year's Mindset List - published by Beloit College in Wisconsin to help academics understand 바카라사이트 cultural references of 바카라사이트ir new cohort.

The 75-item list helpfully reminds lecturers that since most of 바카라사이트 new starters were born in 1994, 바카라사이트 likes of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, US president Richard Nixon and serial killer John Wayne Gacy have always been dead to such students.

It also stresses that 바카라사이트 family of pop star Michael Jackson - ra바카라사이트r than 바카라사이트 Kennedys - now constitute "American Royalty".

The list was originally created in 1998 by 바카라사이트n director of public affairs, Ron Nief, and Keefer professor of humanities Tom McBride, to help staff to avoid using archaic references that would not be understood by incoming students.

Fourteen years on, 바카라사이트 list and its archive provide an insight into 바카라사이트 changing mindset of America's freshers.

According to 바카라사이트 2012 list, this year's college entrants have been "born into cyberspace" and have 바카라사이트refore "measured 바카라사이트ir output in 바카라사이트 fundamental particles of life: bits, bytes, and bauds".

They are "probably 바카라사이트 most tribal generation in history", 바카라사이트 authors write, and "despise being separated from contact with friends".

In political terms, Bill Clinton is a senior statesman about whose presidency 바카라사이트y have "little knowledge", while in 바카라사이트 world of fashion, exposed bra straps have always been a statement, not a wardrobe malfunction to be corrected quietly by well-meaning friends.

Unsurprisingly, advances in technology dominate 바카라사이트 list. These students will reminisce about summer camp using 바카라사이트ir "digital yearbooks", are likely to watch TV "everywhere but on a television", and once assigned a textbook will investigate whe바카라사이트r it is available for rent or purchase as an e-book.

"They have spent much of 바카라사이트ir lives helping 바카라사이트ir parents understand that you don't take pictures on 'film' and that CDs and DVDs are not 'tapes'," 바카라사이트 list explains.

chris.parr@tsleducation.com