Matt Trowbridge
First-Year Student
Medicine
"Cynicism is in fashion right now. You see it in everything, like popular
music. The general level of awareness is different now. Back in the 1950s
you
got the sense that the presiding attitude was that things were good and
that
members of society communicated more.
Scott Beauregard
Third-Year Student
Medicine
"I don't think so. Every generation has their own set of problems and
fears. My
father's generation, and grandfather's, had to deal with the threat of
war. We
have AIDS. Although I believe fears may be faced with more
responsi-bility now,
I think there are just as many good oppor-tunities. The world is more
diverse
and complex, more interesting."
Rayfield Lakes
Visitor to campus
"I don't think they are. But because of what we're faced with it's hard
to be
optimistic and because people put us down."
Beth Klem
Sophomore
College
"No. There are plenty of teenagers out there who are ready to go out and
rule
the world and meet their goals. I don't think the optimism in younger
teens is
any less but maybe in older teens and young twenty-somethings."