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<b><span style="font-size:19.5pt;font-family:Oswald;color:#00386B">2018 List<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Students heading into their first year of college this year were generally born in 1996.</span></i><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Among those who have never been alive in their lifetime are Tupac Shakur, JonBenet Ramsey, Carl Sagan, and Tiny Tim.</span></i><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">On Parents’ Weekend, they may want to watch out in case Madonna shows up to see daughter Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon or Sylvester Stallone comes to see daughter Sophia.</span></i><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">For students entering college this fall in the Class of 2018...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">1.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> During their initial weeks of kindergarten, they were upset by endlessly repeated images of planes blasting into
the World Trade Center.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">2. Since they binge-watch their favorite TV shows, they might like to binge-watch the video portions of their courses too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">3.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> Meds have always been an option.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">4.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> When they see wire-rimmed glasses, they think Harry Potter, not John Lennon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">5</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">. “Press pound” on the phone is now translated as “hit hashtag.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">6. Celebrity “selfies” are far cooler than autographs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">7. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has always been the only news program that really “gets it right.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">8. Hard liquor has always been advertised on television.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">9. Ralph Nader has always been running for President of the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">10. They never sat glued to Saturday morning cartoon shows but have been hooked on FOX’s Sunday night “Animation Domination.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">11.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> The water cooler is no longer the workplace social center; it’s the place to fill your water bottle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">12. In their lifetime, a dozen different actors have portrayed Nelson Mandela on the big and small screen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">13.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> Women have always attended the Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">14.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> FOX News and MSNBC have always been duking it out for the hearts and minds of American viewers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">15. Pepsi has always refreshed travelers in outer space.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">16. Hong Kong has always been part of China.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">17.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> Courts have always been overturning bans on same-sex marriages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">18. Joe Camel has never introduced one of them to smoking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">19. Bosnia and Herzegovina have always been one nation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">20. Citizens have always had a constitutional right to a “dignified and humane death.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">21. Nicotine has always been recognized as an addictive drug requiring FDA oversight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">22. Students have always been able to dance at Baylor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">23. Hello Dolly...cloning has always been a fact, not science fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">24. Women have always been dribbling, and occasionally dunking, in the WNBA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">25. Ads for prescription drugs, noting their disturbing side effects, have always flooded the airwaves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">26. Hell has always been associated less with torment and more with nothingness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">27</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">. Whether to embrace fat or spurn it has been a front page debate all their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">28. Parents have always been able to rely on a ratings system to judge violence on TV.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">29. They never tasted the “texturally enhanced alternative beverage” known as Orbitz.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">30. There has always been “TV” designed to be watched exclusively on the web.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">31</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">. The Unabomber has always been behind bars.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">32. Female referees have always officiated NBA games.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">33</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">. There has always been a national database of sex offenders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">34. Chicago, a musical about a celebrity getting away with murder, has always been popular on Broadway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">35</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">. Yet another blessing of digital technology: They have never had to hide their dirty magazines under the bed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">36. U.S. major league baseball teams have always played in Mexico.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">37</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">. Bill Gates has always been the richest man in the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">38. Attending schools outside their neighborhoods, they gather with friends on Skype, not in their local park.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">39. While the number of Americans living with HIV has always been going up, American deaths from AIDS have always been going down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">40. They have no memory of George Stephanopoulos as a senior White House advisor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">41. The PGA has always offered golfers with disabilities a ride—reluctantly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">42. “African-American Vernacular English” has always been recognized as a distinct language in Oakland.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">43. Two-term presidents are routine, but none of them ever won in a landslide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">44. The family has always been able to buy insurance at local banks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">45.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> One route to pregnancy has always been through frozen eggs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">46</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">. They have probably never used Netscape as their web browser.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">47. Everybody has always Loved Raymond.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">48. “Salon” has always been an online magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">49. The rate of diagnosed diabetes has always been shooting up during their lifetime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">50</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">. Affirmative Action has always been outlawed in California.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">51. Boeing has never had any American competition for commercial aircraft.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">52. U.S. soldiers have always been vaccinated against anthrax.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">53. “Good feedback” means getting 30 likes on your last Facebook post in a single afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">54. Their collection of U.S. quarters has always celebrated the individual states.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">55. Since Toys R Us created a toy registry for kids, visits to Santa are just a formality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva";color:#1F497D">Dr. Linda Mason<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Coordinator of Grant Writing
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">655 Research Parkway, Suite 200<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Oklahoma City, OK 73104<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">405-225-9486 desk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">405-706-8757 cell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">405-225-9230 FAX<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:lmason@osrhe.edu">lmason@osrhe.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.okhighered.org/grant-opps/">www.okhighered.org/grant-opps/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">Do not be afraid to give your time to writing grant proposals. Time given to planning proposals is never time lost, but is rather time gained, so that
our research, our programs, our collaborations and indeed our whole profession may become more profoundly significant.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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