News - Beloit College
Online Textbook Retailer to Create Infographics Displaying Life as Students Know It: Card Catalogs and Pan American Airways Draw A Blank, While GPS Navigation Systems and Cartoon Network Strike
A Wisconsin college has released its annual Mindset List detailing the cultural touchstones important to this year's freshman class. The Beloit College Mindset List, compiled by retired college spokesman Ron Nief and humanities Professor Tom McBride, says 18-year-olds entering college this semester have grown up in a United States with Iraq as a repeated enemy, mega-churches located across the country and Cartoon Network as a cable TV viewing choice, USA Today reported Tuesday. For the Class of 2013, tattoos have always been chic, rap music mainstream and bungee jumping socially acceptable.
MADISON, Wis., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Beloit College today announced its 12th annual Mindset List via webcast using Mediasite by Sonic Foundry, Inc.
A study at the University of Alberta brings new insight to the freshman 15 -- the seemingly inevitable weight gain by students starting college.
By Roger Hull Deseret Morning News SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- Now I know how Don Quixote felt when he jousted with windmills.
