Here’s an interesting piece of information — Ditching for Saddam:

“High school and college students across the country walked out of class Wednesday to protest a war with Iraq, holding a series of rallies organizers predicted would be the biggest campus demonstrations since the Vietnam War,” the Associated Press reports. We compared reports of the number of protesting students to the enrollment figures in the Information Please Almanac and came up with this table:

College | Enrollment | # of Protesters | % of students not protesting

Stanford University| 7,886 | 300 | 96.20%|

University of Maryland | 24,638 | 500 | 97.97%

Marquette University | 7,496 | 40 | 99.47%

Penn State University | 34,406 | 1,500 | 95.64%

Miami University (Ohio) | 14,914 | 125 | 99.16%

University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) | 15,608 | 100 | 99.36%

Virginia Commonwealth University | 16,505 | 2 | 99.99%

Rice University | 2,856 | 200 | 93.00%

New York University | 18,628 | 100 | 99.46%

University of California (Berkeley) | 22,593 | 300 | 98.67%

Rutgers University | 27,939 | 80 | 99.71%

As for me, I will be joining this gentleman by drinking beer this weekend in my support for the President and the liberation of Iraq. After all, everyone out drinking beer will be supporting the President in the same way that those ditching class were supporting Saddam, right?