Government Connections - Fall 2010 - (Page 35) Get to Know Your Future Colleagues What does the class of 2014 know, anyway? IT’S THAT TIME of year again; school is starting across the country and the class of 2014 is moving into their first dorm rooms. Most students entering college for the first time this fall, members of the Class of 2014, were born in 1992. For these students, Benny Hill, Sam Kinison, Sam Walton, Burt Parks and Tony Perkins have always been dead. Beloit College in Wisconsin has published their annual “mindset” list for incoming freshmen. Take a look at your future colleagues and remember we all started somewhere. So be nice to the rookies. 1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive. 2. E-mail is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail. 3. “Go west, young college grad,” has always implied “and don’t stop until you get to Asia and learn Chinese along the way.” 4. Al Gore has always been animated. 5. Los Angelinos have always been trying to get along. 6. Buffy has always been meeting her obligations to hunt down Lothos and the other bloodsuckers at Hemery High. 7. “Caramel macchiato” and “venti halfcafvanilla latte” have always been street corner lingo. 8. With increasing numbers of ramps, Braille signs and handicapped parking spaces, the world has always been trying harder to accommodate people with disabilities. 9. Had it remained operational, the villainous computer HAL could be their college classmate this fall, but they have a better chance of running into Miley Cyrus’s folks on Parents’ Weekend. 10. A quarter of the class has at least one immigrant parent, and the immigration debate is not a big priority unless it involves “real” aliens from another planet. 11. John McEnroe has never played professional tennis. 12. Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry. 13. Parents and teachers feared that Beavis and Butt-head might be the voice of a lost generation. 14. Doctor Kevorkian has never been licensed to practice medicine. 15. Colorful lapel ribbons have always been worn to indicate support for a cause. 16. Korean cars have always been a staple on American highways. 17. Trading Chocolate the Moose for Patti the Platypus helped build their Beanie Baby collection. 18. Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess. 19. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone. 20. DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed. 21. Woody Allen, whose heart has wanted what it wanted, has always been with Soon-Yi Previn. 22. Cros s-bur n ing h a s always been deemed protected speech. 23. Leasing has always allowed the folks to upgrade their tastes in cars. 24. “Cop Killer” by rapper Ice-T has never been available on a recording. 25. Jay Leno and David Letterman have always been trading insults on opposing networks. 26. Unless they found one in their grandparents’ closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides. 2014 27. Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive. 28. They’ve never recognized that pointing to their wrists was a request for the time of day. 29. Reg gie Jackson has always been enshrined in Cooperstown. 30. “Viewer Discretion” has always been an available warning on TV shows. 31. The first computer they probably touched was an Apple II; it is now in a museum. 32. Czechoslovakia has never existed. 33. Secondhand smoke has always been an official carcinogen. 34. “Assisted Living” has always been replacing nursing homes, while hospice has always been an alternative to hospitals. 35. Once they got through security, going to the airport has always resembled going to the mall. 36. Adhesive strips have always been available in varying skin tones. 37. Whatever their parents may have thought about the year they were born, Queen Elizabeth declared it an “AnnusHorribilis.” 38. Bud S elig h a s always been t he Com m i s sioner of M ajor L e ag ue Baseball. 39. Pizza jockeys from Domino’s have never killed themselves to get your pizza there in under 30 minutes. 40. There have always been HIV positive athletes in the Olympics. www.sgmp.org 35 http://www.sgmp.org Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Government Connections - Fall 2010 Government Connections - Fall 2010 Contents President’s Letter Editor’s Letter Going Places Education Edge That’s Technology Supplier Strategy Plan Green Travel Tips and Trends Good to Know Dieting on a Per Diem The Lean Approach to E-mail Management Connecting to the Next Generation Cows, People and Flying Get to Know Your Future Colleagues FACE TIME – It Matters VIPs! Where Do I Seat Them at My Meeting? 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