6/87Number of colleges that invited Vanna White to give their commencement address this spring: 0

Vanna White (Beverly Hills, Calif.)

11/92Chances that a shoplifter in Washington, D.C., has been to college: 1 in 2

Greater Washington, D.C. Board of Trade

12/94Chances that a Santa Claus appearing in a mall this month has a college degree: 2 in 3

Homart Development Co. (Chicago)

7/96Ratio of professional jobs available in Mexico in the 1980s to the number of Mexicans who graduated from college then: 1:4

The Rise of the Professions in Twentieth-Century Mexico

4/92Number of weeks “Croatia’s Gotta Be Free” has been in the top ten on Croatia’s largest radio station: 12

Radio 101 (Zagreb, Croatia)

    Number of the song’s three authors who are American college students: 3

Mario Vuksan, Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Penn.)