Date: 08/29/2005

In the next few weeks, millions of students throughout the country are entering college for the first time. Typically born in 1987, the class of 2009 has always had Starbucks, souped-up car stereos, telephone voicemail systems, and Bill Gates in their lives, says the annual Mindset List released by Beloit College, which offers a world view of today's entering college students. Today's freshmen don't remember when "cut and paste" involved scissors; they learned to count with Lotus 1-2-3; and Andy Warhol, Liberace, Jackie Gleason and Lee Marvin have always been dead. For the entire list, see www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/releases/mindset_2009.htm.