The Boston Globe, October 23rd, 2005
IN THEIR 1991 book "Generations," William Strauss and Neil Howe characterized the so-called Generation X (Americans born in 1961 and after) as a profoundly skeptical cohort, "proud of their ability to poke through the hype" and difficult to market to. Last week, in an open letter to college administrators published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the pop demographers warned that in coming years the infamous skepticism of Xers could adversely affect not only the floggers of goods and services but colleges. Many schools, they wrote, may "see their admissions pools shrink, their acceptance ...
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