COLUMNS AND DEPARTMENTS

Cardinal Numbers

January/February 2000

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Students who eat Dining Services food:

3,800

Ratio of full-time food service workers to student customers:

1:32

Drinking glasses lost or broken annually:

7,488

Raisin-bran cereal consumed annually, in pounds:

3,220

Percentage of students who lose weight while at Stanford:

14


Assistant U.S. secretaries of state:

15

Languages spoken in Africa:

1,000

African languages taught at Stanford:

5

Countries in Africa:

53

Stanford students from Africa:

46


Van Pool

Average duration of Stanford employees' commute, in minutes:

16

Duration of commute from Modesto to campus, in minutes:

135

Percentage of Stanford employees who ride vanpools:

0.79

Percentage who commute alone in their vehicles:

55

 

Sources: 1. Dining Services; Cowell Health Center; 2. U.S. State Department; The Cultural Atlas of Africa; Stanford Bulletin; Registrar's Office; 3. Transportation Services.

Illustrations: Lisa Manning

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