$500,000,000
Raised last year for George Bridges’s “Bow is the Tie” Campaign, dedicated to preserving a presidential dress code for future generations of Whitties.
37
Number of times Whitman students claimed they were heading home to “Seattle” for spring break only to be corrected that Bellevue/Edmonds/Lake Forest Park/Everett/Shoreline/Olympia/etc. are in fact suburbs of Seattle and cannot be called “Seattle.”
22
Number of yoga pants worn by Whitman first-years per day. Yoga pants are not pants, people.
143
Average number of ill-aimed Frisbee golf shots retrieved by harried grounds crew members from treetops and roofs of liberal arts campuses across the nation, per minute.
Extremely large
Amount of money spent by some government on something somewhere last year/month/week.
1.4
Number of facts in this “Numbers in the News” that are actually true.
