in today's chronicle of higher education was a review of: The First Year Out: Understanding American Teens after High School (Tim Clydesdale) it was extremely depressing, but confirmed my suspicions -- anti-intellectualism, always a trend in america, has now become the norm for Gen Y. An excerpt from Lang's review: "In other words, freshmen spend most of their time and intellectual energy figuring out how to handle life without parental restraints and support: how to deal with money (or lack thereof); negotiate newfound freedoms with sex, drugs, and alcohol; and determine how much time to devote to studying, working, and playing. But what freshmen don't do during their first year of college comes as more of a (perhaps depressing) surprise: "Most American teens keep core identities in an 'identity lockbox' during their first year out and actively resist efforts to examine their self-understandings through classes or to engage their humanity through institutional efforts such as public lectures, the arts, or social activism."