By The Numbers (Sept. 21)

    **$200,000**
    The reported amount that Virginia Tech is paying the College for the Tribe to play the Hokies in a football game this weekend in Blacksburg.

    p. **20 Percent**
    The percent of people who said in a recent poll of 1,011 adults that they felt they spend less time having sex because they are online. The survey was conducted by advertising agency JWT. Twenty-eight percent admitted to spending less time socializing because of the internet.

    p. **15**
    The number of fire alarms that went off in undergraduate dorms during the first five days of the semester. A fire safety officer cited cooking fires as the main cause.

    p. **$25,000 a day**
    The amount that Caitlin Upton, the Miss Teen USA contestant who became a YouTube sensation after giving an embarrassing answer to a question about U.S. education, may now earn at her new contract with Donald Trump’s modeling agency.

    p. “If I had answered that question right and happened to win, I’d never [have] been given the opportunities,” Caitlin told local news channel WIS. Fifteen million people watched her pageant mistake on YouTube.

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