Average number of hours a
child
watches television each week:
28
Percent of kids who report TV viewing as their
usual activity
between school and dinner:
80
Percent of adults who can identify Joe Camel:
67
Percent of 6-year-olds who can:
91
Number of honor code charges
filed against
Stanford students in 1974-75:
11
In 1994-95:
47
Percent of
students at schools with honor codes
who say they have cheated:
30
Percent of students at schools without
honor codes
who say they have cheated:
45
Number of prisoners who served time on Alcatraz:
1,560
Longest sentence served:
26 years
Number of inmates whose attempts to escape failed:
33
Number of escapees who are unaccounted for:
3
Size of a prisoner's cell on Alcatraz:
5 feet by 9 feet
Size of a single freshman dorm room in Branner:
15 feet by 9 feet
SOURCES:(1) The Smart Parent's Guide to Kids TV, by Milton Chen; (2) Office of Dean of Students; 1995 study by Rutgers Professor Donald McCabe; (3) Alcatraz archives.