Their parents' favorite sitcoms keep showing up as movies, and rock bands have always played at presidential inaugural parties. At least that's how it seems to the incoming college class of 2014, according to an annual survey of college freshman.

Wisconsin's Beloit College, which has released its "Mindset List" each August since 1998, also says that the new freshmen — most of them born in 1992 — were still in their cribs when the big three networks started to lose their dominance of TV news.

Put together by English and humanities professor Tom McBride and the school's former public affairs director, Ron Nief, the survey was originally created to remind professors to avoid dated references.

Among the other TV and pop-culture references the class of '14 knows (or doesn't know), according to the list:

    * Oscar-winning filmmaker Woody Allen has always been with Soon-Yi Previn.
    * Fergie is a pop singer, not British royalty.
    * Dr. Jack Kevorkian has never in their lifetimes been licensed to practice medicine. But students may know him because of his portrayal by Al Pacino in the HBO biopic directed by Barry Levinson, You Don't Know Jack.