RE: our students

["Lerner, Neal" <NLerner@mcp.edu>]

Yes, and even those of us born in New Jersey in 1960 know well about
stickball.  Actually, I minored in college in stickball, along with frisbee.
Or was that my major?

	Neal Lerner
	Mass. College of Pharmacy

> ----------
> From: 	Theresa Ammirati
> Reply To: 	wcenter@ttacs6.ttu.edu
> Sent: 	Tuesday, September 1, 1998 4:28 PM
> To: 	wcenter@ttacs6.ttu.edu
> Subject: 	Re: our students
> 
> Re: Kate Pritchard's son's letter-- a clever bit of tit-for-tat.  But I
> have
> one quibble:  anyone who grew up in Brooklyn, NY, between 1944 and 1964
> does, indeed, know what stickball is--and several have been known, even at
> their advanced ages, to still eye broom handles somewhat predatorially.
> The
> two-sewer home lives in memory, even in places where street sewers are
> non-existent.  Theresa Ammirati
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kate Pritchard <kap@mail.wsu.edu>
> To: wcenter@ttacs6.ttu.edu <wcenter@ttacs6.ttu.edu>
> Date: Monday, August 31, 1998 2:22 PM
> Subject: our students
> 
> 
> I recently received the posting about the social context of students
> just entering college.  After sharing it with my son, an 18-year-old
> first-year college student, he responded with the following:
> 
> As we prepare for the beginning of another academic year, these facts
> may help us to remember the social context of the people who teach us.
> 
> Many of the people who are teaching college this fall across the nation
> were born between 1946 and 1964.
> 
> They have no meaningful recollection of the Charles I era, and did not
> know he had ever been executed.
> 
> They were pre-pubescent when the Korean War was waged.
> 
> The Panic of 1907 is as significant to them as the Era of Good Feelings.
> 
> There have been only two Japanese Emperors.
> 
> They can only really remember one English monarch.
> 
> They were 4 when the USSR fist tested an atomic bomb, and do not
> remember the Great Depression.
> 
> They have never lived under totalitarianism.  "The Long March" is a
> missile to them, not a historical event.
> 
> NKVD is just a bunch of letters.
> 
> They have known only one Italy.
> 
> They are too young to remember the U-2 shot down, and Prague Spring
> means nothing to them.
> 
> They do not know who Michael Collins was.
> 
> Their lifetime has always included genocide.
> 
> They have never had swine flu, and likely, do not know what it is.
> 
> Futurism predates them, as does photography.  The expression "A pennys
> a pound the world round" means nothing to them.
> 
> They have likely never played stickball, and have never heard of it.
> 
> There has always been Marxism, and Maoism is not new.  Anarchism may
> have special meaning.  What do you mean there used to be Hegelianism?
> 
> They may have heard of a Victrola, but chances are they have never
> actually seen or heard one.
> 
> NATO was introduced when they were 1 year old.
> 
> They have always had a telephone.
> 
> Most have never seen a TV set the size of a chest of drawers, nor have
> they seen a cylindrical wax LP
> 
> They have always had light bulbs.
> 
> There have always been movies, but they have no idea what the Brighton
> School was.
> 
> They were born the year that COMECON was introduced by the CCCP.
> 
> Driving has always been "in a car" for them.
> 
> They have never heard of the Hanseatic League, East India Co., South
> Seas Co., or White Star.
> 
> Dada is what Marcel Duchamps son called him.
> 
> They have no idea when or why corsets were cool.
> 
> Radio has always had frequency modulation.
> 
> They have never seen or remember a pro sports team like the Washington
> Capitols, South Philadelphia Hebrew Association, Cleveland Rosenblums,
> Pittsburgh Ironmen, Chicago Stags, Providence Steamrollers, Cleveland
> Rebels.
> 
> They do not consider the New York Mets and Milwaukee Brewers "expansion
> teams."
> 
> They have never seen Knute Rockne play, and isnt Bob Cousy an
> announcer?
> 
> The World War I is as ancient history to them as the Russian, American,
> or even the English Civil Wars.
> 
> They have no idea that Holy Roman Empire officials were ever
> defenestrated in Prague.
> 
> They dont know who Dr. Caligari was or where he came from.
> 
> They have never heard the phrases "54, 40" or fight,"  "Join or Die,"
> or "Pedicaris alive or Raisuli dead."
> 
> They do not care why Sacco and Vanzetti were executed and have no idea
> who Sacco and Vanetti were.
> 
> Ma Perkins, Just Plain Bill, Amos n Andy, and The March of Time are
> shows they have likely never heard of.
> 
> King Tutankhamens tomb was found?  I thought we always knew where it
> was.
> 
> New Hampshire and New York have always been "new."
> 
> They cannot remember the St. Louis Bombers ever winning a NBA
> championship, or even being in one.
> 
> Waterloo, Odessa, and Toledo are places in Europe, not America, and they
> have no idea Cincinnati is named after a Roman statesman.
> 
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