var total_stats = 18 //total number of stat items to choose from

stat_item1 = "State funding now represents less than 20 percent of PSU's budget."
stat_item2 = "PSU graduates are a key resource for Northwest technology firms, and PSU is one of the largest suppliers of talent to Intel nationwide.  According to Intel Vice President Youssef El-Mansy, \"PSU graduates come out ready to contribute; the high-tech industry doesn't need to spend years training them.\""
stat_item3 = "With 93 percent passing the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, PSU graduates are among the most capable in the nation.  The national passing rate is 80 percent."
stat_item4 = "A study in the Journal of Urban Affairs ranked the Ph.D. program in urban studies fifth in the nation, while U.S. News and World Report ranks the School of Community Health's Master of Public Health (a collaboration with OHSU and OSU) eighth among its peers."
stat_item5 = "The School of Extended Studies and the School of Business Administration have collaborated on the eMBA, delivered through a combination of face-to-face meetings and online instruction.  In its first year, U.S. News & World Report ranked the program in the top 25 of online M.B.A."
stat_item6 = "The School of Business is ranked in the top 30 percent of business schools nationwide and is the largest school of business in Oregon."
stat_item7 = "Historically, graduates of the accounting program pass the CPA exam at a rate that is the highest in Oregon and twice the national average."
stat_item8 = "Portland State stands among the best in the nation in providing programs that enhance learning, according to a new category unveiled in the U.S. News and World Report's Best Colleges 2003 that recognizes \"programs that work.\"  Portland State's integration of community-based learning and curriculum earned top-10 rankings in three different categories, placing higher than Stanford, Penn, Michigan, Notre Dame, and Princeton."
stat_item9 = "Over the past five years research expenditures at PSU have increased by 65 percent."
stat_item10 = "The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology is home to a new high-resolution transmission electron microscope, the only one of its kind at any educational or research institution in the Pacific Northwest."
stat_item11 = "The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is home to the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies, a collaborative initiative with the University of Oregon."
stat_item12 = "In fall 2001, PSU alumni accounted for 30 percent of all first-year medical students at Oregon Health & Science University.  Additionally, over the past decade PSU provided more dental students to OHSU than any other college or university in the country."
stat_item13 = "The Graduate School of Education is Oregon's largest and most comprehensive school of education."
stat_item14 = "More than half of the public school principals in the tri-county area have received their licensure through Portland State."
stat_item15 = "The Graduate School of Social Work was the first school of social work in the nation to design and successfully implement a statewide MSW program to be offered entirely in the distance education format, meeting a critical need for professional social workers outside a metropolitan region."
stat_item16 = "The Opera Theater program received a first-place award from the National Opera Association's Opera Production Competition for its production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro."
stat_item17 = "The PSU Chamber choir is recognized as one of the world's finest.  The choir has earned top prizes at the world's most respected choral competitions in Spain and Germany.  In 2003, the choir will sing at Carnegie Hall for the American Choral Directors Association."
stat_item18 = "The School of Fine & Performing Arts pays tribute to an important force in Oregon's culture with the James DePreist Professorship in Ethnic Art.  The professorship allows PSU to provide mentoring to students from underrepresented communities."

function get_stat(){
	var stat_num
	stat_num = Math.round(Math.random() * total_stats)
	if (stat_num == 0){
		stat_num = 1
	}
	eval("document.write(stat_item" + stat_num + ")")

}