1.   Five hundred cheering students greeted the team on campus.

2.   McCain, standing on stage in a packed gym at Heritage High School in Saginaw, portrayed himself as the outsider and underdog to several hundred cheering students.

3.   Presidential campaigns get announced at hometown rallies or in front of cheering students at the alma mater.

4.   After his speech in Townsend, Bush stopped his motorcade at Heritage High School near Maryville and was greeted by hundreds of cheering students.

5.   Crowds of cheering students from the all-women college lined both sides of the route and screamed encouragement to all the marathoners -- but especially the women.