MDOLAN wrote:


The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were
born in 1980.

  * The Iranian hostage crisis occurred before they were conceived.
  * They have no memory of a time before M-TV.
  * "New Wave" is their PARENTS' musical generation.
  * They were about 6 when the Challenger disaster occured
  * They are actually young enough to have a crush on Prince William!
  * Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, the Pretenders, the Kinks, the Sex Pistols
      - are all old music they have heard of, if they have heard of it at all.
  * They have no meaningful intellegent recollection of the Reagan era.
  * They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
  * If they have heard the name "Oliver North," it was probably as a
      losing Congressional candidate, or perhaps in some obscure survey
      history text's reference, such as might be made to Huey Long or
      Teapot Dome.
  * Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression.
  * Their world has always included AIDS.
  * Having not lived through the Disco Scare, they can romanticize the 1970s.
  * They see "Family Ties" as something middle-aged ladies watch.
  * They watched "Star Wars" years ago, when they were kids -- on video.
  * Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums and cassette audiotapes.
  * As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 32 cents.
  * The oil crisis is history or something of which they probably know
	  nothing -- and why anyone WOULDN'T buy a suburban is beyond them.
  * Most of them have probably never seen a real nun (in a traditional
	  habits), even if they went to Catholic schools.