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It's Not Just Miss South Carolina

Posted Aug 30th 2007 1:53PM by TMZ Staff

Caitlin Upton should feel very proud today. It seems she's not the only young person in America who appears to be a little less than informed. Christian activist and author Mark Dice dropped by San Diego State University to see how many of tomorrow's leaders know what year 9/11 happened.


Apparently, the unsuspecting >students couldn't quite remember. Perhaps if Mark had given them a hint -- like the year the Mariah Carey's cinematic masterpiece "Glitter" was released, or perhaps the year that Britney Spears' "Slave" song topped the charts. Come on Mark, give 'em somethin' to work with! It is understandable though, that collegians would be more likely to remember the last time Britney had a hit rather than the day that changed America forever. Oh Brit Brit! Ding Dang!

Over 2,700 people lost their lives on September 11, 2001.

Tags: 9/11, britney, collegians, glitter, mariah, mark dice, MarkDice, sdsu, the resistance manifesto, TheResistanceManifesto

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31. THESE GIRLS

THEIR PARENTS

THIER COMMUNITIES

AND THEIR CURRENT PROFESSORES

SHOULD BE ashamed.

ASHAMED that they could not answer

ASHMAED THAT they GIGGLED

ASHAMED that they are alive when so many did and STILL ARE dying for their right and freedom to be COMPLETE and TOTAL wastes of cells and air.

Posted at 4:16PM on Aug 30th 2007 by MsKnowsItYahll

32. Wow, he found 3 people who didn't know and four people who didn't want to be bothered by the guy holding the microphone. If you asked these people what year their parents were born, they probably wouldn't know.

Posted at 4:19PM on Aug 30th 2007 by Ned

33. Wow... I still consider myself young at 26, but I sure do feel old when I start complaining about "kids these days." As sad as it is to say, if we continue in this direction Americans will be living the history lesson we learned in middle school- that every great nation has its fall. Wake up, America.

Posted at 4:37PM on Aug 30th 2007 by Erin

34. It truly is sad and pathetic - just like someone commented above

Posted at 5:09PM on Aug 30th 2007 by ladylaw

35. Britney Targeted in Child Abuse Investigation = 984 comments by tmz posters

Do you know what year 9/11 attacks occurred = 29 comments by tmz posters

Posted at 4:41PM on Aug 30th 2007 by Liz

36. How can you not know what year 9/11 happened? and what is worse, is they really didn't seem to care how ignorant they came across, laughing, acting like it was a big joke. It is truly pathetic. Their parents need to cut off the college money and donate it to the victims of 9/11 and their families.

Posted at 4:49PM on Aug 30th 2007 by V

37. Well as Bush said "Is our children learning?"
My answer would be, "Guess not."

What are these students learning then?
Do they are know that we are basically at war in Iraq because of September 11, 2001?

Sad state of affairs if this is a sign of our education system today?
No child left behind my a**!

Posted at 4:48PM on Aug 30th 2007 by just saying...

38. Britney Targeted in Child Abuse Investigation = 984 comments by tmz posters

Do you know what year 9/11 attacks occurred = 29 comments by tmz posters

Posted at 4:41PM on Aug 30th 2007 by Liz

Liz is absolutely correct!! This past week, SAT score achievement was announced, and guess what? Scores dropped nationwide! Saw few comments on blogs, except for excuses from academics and politicians. But, when it came to the three ditzy girls or Mike Vick going to jail, there were hundreds of comments per blog. Know that knowing what the dtzy girls were smoking or drinking will really put food on the table ten years from now!! WAY TO GO POLITICAL LEADERS -- and ACADEMICS!!! Know you are proud!!

Posted at 4:51PM on Aug 30th 2007 by wheeljc

39. All of a sudden, I'm sooo embarassed to be an SDSU alumna. I was still attending State when 9/11 happened and I will never forget that day. This just shows how little 9/11 has been emphasized in recent years and that we need to be doing a lot more the educate these young people about US history, current and old. I just visited the Flight 93 memorial in Pennsylvania and was saddened that it is still little more than a shack six years later. Sad.
As a college teacher I'm even more saddened as fewer and fewer students know what happened on December 7, 1941 or when D-Day was or what it stands for.

Posted at 6:00PM on Aug 30th 2007 by Eva

40. How in the world can you not remember? I even remember what I was doing when I heard what was going on. It is San Diego state i mean come on you can't ask for much from the number one party school in California.

Posted at 5:05PM on Aug 30th 2007 by Deelicious

41. Further proof of the dumbing down of America.

Your youth doesn't have a clue about anything but video games and celebrities.

The world laughs at America.

Posted at 5:10PM on Aug 30th 2007 by Frenchie Freddie

42. I bet if there was a MySpace page about it, then they would remember the day that changed America Forever.

Posted at 5:29PM on Aug 30th 2007 by Red

43. You say "author and Christian activist," I say "conspiracy-theory nutjob and rabble rouser . . . why give this goof any more attention by promoting his video and the rest of the trash hosted on his site?

Posted at 9:12PM on Aug 30th 2007 by Nate

44. The dumbing down of America is such a scary, scary thing. These people are allowed to drive and breed. Just sit back and watch average IQs fall over the next ten years!

Posted at 6:31PM on Aug 30th 2007 by paisley40

45. I don't know what was worst, the fact that they can't remember or the fact that some of them laughed because they couldn't remember.. This was sad

Posted at 2:58PM on Sep 1st 2007 by Kim

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