• 70 MILES: Amount of cable laid across the campus to broadcast the debate and news shows in advance of, and following it.
• $2.5 MILLION: Amount donated for new east entrance and preserve/southwest entrance project; both were scheduled to be finished in 2013 but were rushed to completion in time for the debate.
• 2,200: Total number of students.
• 106: Total number of faculty.
• 2,500-3,500: Number of media people credentialed to cover the debate.
• $5 MILLION: amount spent by Lynn just on debate logistics. That does not include the $2.5 million spent on the two renovation projects. Businesses donated much of the total in either cash or services.
• 25 ACRES: Total area of the 123-acre campus devoted to the “Debate Village.” It includes the Wold Performing Arts Center, site of the debate; and the deHoernle Sports and Cultural Center, where media will be set up, the Ritter Hall classroom building, which later will be razed for a new business school.
• 80: The number of flags in the Circle of Flags on the Lynn University campus, representing students from those countries.
• CLASSIFIED: Number of law enforcement officers from various local, state and federal agencies.
• COUNTLESS: Total hours Lynn staffers have spent preparing for the debate.
• ONE: Number of lakes filled in.
• ZERO: Number of Lynn classes to be held Monday.
• FIFTY: Years since Lynn’s founding in 1962 as Marymount College. It became the College of Boca Raton in 1974 and Lynn in 1991.
SOURCE: Lynn University
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