2019: The annual list on what incoming students know

[polly_mer]

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.

[Hegemony]

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.

[onthefringe]

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.

[fast_and_bulbous]

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...

[pgher]

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.

[polly_mer]

CHE article with some background on why new listmakers this year