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Show ege Marriages Happy? help support her husband, a certain amount of resentment and dissatisfaction resulted. A partial explanation offered for the success of the marriages was that many of the husbands were ex-GT's, matured by several years in an adult world. But even so, it was also noted that in the instances of the happier marriages mar-riages "almost every woman went on to get her degree with little or no interruption ... the fact that they did despite pregnancy, preg-nancy, poverty and motherhood seems to have an important bearing on the successful outcome out-come of their marriages." ni, 90 per .cent of IfcrtiB mimed while fc we report that after Cb.fcir marriages are :rfc,diog to a survey Va:- -a the May issues of Eva; j newsstands April its o: : JOBAIRES were sent !! women who were e they received ignduate degrees in lift is questionnaires were Hilt ijty personal inter-0. inter-0. insults showed that Malta) 13 years, only Mil 110 women in the divorced and jljc la are remarried." ' jarding to Redbook t :ist are about 40,-h 40,-h coeds 18, 19, 20 and 21 years old who attend college fulltime." Housing units for married mar-ried couples have become routine rou-tine construction projects at many universities. Two other studies by Antioch College and Syracuse University Univer-sity confirm the Redbook findings find-ings that onhcampus marriages are for the most part successful. success-ful. One advantage of college marriages mar-riages that was pointed out was the lack of social pressures. While the couples are still in school there are no status symbols sym-bols expected of them such as new furniture, membership in the country club, or owning the latest model car. During this pressure-free period the young couple has an opportunity to become acquainted with and adjust ad-just to each other in a relaxed atmosphere. SOME OF THE disadvantages of college marriages listed were missed opportunities, lack of independence, in-dependence, and the ever-present money problems. Marriage counselors and college col-lege deans of women who were approached on the subject agreed it was quite possible for college marriages to be successful success-ful "when both partners finish college, when they have enough money, and when both partners are emotionally mature." It was discovered that when the wife had to drop out of school before graduation to |