https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/08/20/marist-list-reveals-what-freshmen-know
Remember where you were on 9/11? 18 year olds don't.
Boy, that's an unusually lame list. "A Roman Catholic pope has always visited a mosque." "Euthanasia has always been legal in the Netherlands." "Except for when he celebrated Jeopardy's 35th anniversary, Alex Trebek has never had a mustache." Does anyone really pay minute attention to the dates of these things, or date their aging by them? You can tell that different people made the list this year.
The only one that really took me aback was that Law and Order SVU has been on the air for longer than they have been alive.
Quote from: polly_mer on August 21, 2019, 06:19:55 AM
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/08/20/marist-list-reveals-what-freshmen-know
Remember where you were on 9/11? 18 year olds don't.
I'll go out on a limb here and say I don't think 21 year olds remember either...
Quote from: Hegemony on August 21, 2019, 11:16:20 AM
Boy, that's an unusually lame list.
It's been going downhill for a couple years. I think they've run out of big things to talk about.
CHE article with some background on why new listmakers this year (https://t.co/zRi70t4tOy?amp=1)