8,000: estimated number of people who attended James Madison University's 2010 Springfest celebration, 6,000 more than last year
3: o'clock in the afternoon, the time riot police were forced to break up the ruckus using tear gas and pepper spray
8,000: people who are now unlikely to get jobs in any respectable field after being featured in the incriminating YouTube videos
125: year anniversary of the McCormick Observatory, which is undergoing renovations to make it appear more as it did in 1885
125: number of students - when asked if they knew what the McCormick Observatory was - who responded, "Yeah, I just ate there this morning."
1: time a Cavalier Daily's sports article likened Virginia Military Institute's Gray-Minor Stadium to a Little League field
12: runs scored by VMI's baseball team, compared to the University's three; not so little league
320,000: reported annual salary in dollars of Craig Littlepage, the University's athletic director
2: cents some students would like to give him about how to hire a successful football or men's basketball coach
267: age in years Thomas Jefferson would have turned Tuesday
1: vote margin of the majority decision rule in favor of upholding the ban on alcohol advertisements in college newspapers by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
100: percent confidence remaining at the Natural Light headquarters that the company still will be able to corner the collegiate beer market
10: amount in dollars students must pay to purchase a bus ticket for transportation to and from the Foxfield Races a week from tomorrow
1: month - April 2010 - Gov. Bob McDonnell declared Confederate History Month in Virginia
0: times McDonnell mentioned slavery in his original proclamation
50: percent chance Kayne West shows up at the governor's next speech to interrupt and say, "Imma let you finish, but McDonnell is one of the worst governors of all time"
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