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Listen to radios? Watch TVs? Not for Class of '16
• http://www.cbsnews.com, AP
They never lived in a world where Kurt Cobain was alive or an NFL team played its home games in Los Angeles. The Class of 2016 has no need for radios, watches television everywhere except on actual TV sets and is addicted to "electronic narcotics."
And the old Hollywood stereotype of ditzy blonde women has given way to one of "dumb and dumber males," according to the list.
"In general, there was always the complaint that it was too slow for women to get to positions of responsibility," said Ron Nief, one of the two Beloit College officials who compiles the list. "Now the question is, 'What took so long?'"