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Show Married Students: unknown campd Married students! a non-apparent very different wor o By KURT NUTTING Chronicle Staff Although most undergraduates would probably be surprised at the figure, more than one in three University students is married. They form a kind of separate world ordinarily not apparent to the dorm dwellers or the commuters com-muters from outlying Davis and Salt Lake counties. Of the University's 21,182 total enrollment in 1970-71, 7,164 (4,197 or 58.6 percent, full-time students ' and 2,967, or 41.4 percent, part-time students) were married, according to the University's Office of Institutional In-stitutional Studies. As expected, the lowest percentage per-centage of married students is among the freshmen 1,625 out of 7,890 University freshmen (20.6 percent) last year had taken the fateful step. Sophomores showed a similar percentage 21 .8 percent, or 744 of 3419, were married. But by the time a student becomes a junior the chances of bing married rise to about one in three: 894 of the junior class of 2846 are married. About two in five 42.3 percent) seniors were wed, or 1238 out of 2886 seniors. Graduate students and others (totalling 4141 are, the most likely to be married, with only 1478 oif tk (Th7e fig;;; J" overlapping.) 01 ' Few figures are , ma'ri students V "e seems to know " the.r grade.point h'Sher. or if they Co take harder classes. fut S0T ideas car, k from a I at th rr.ed student ho,s, Cox, University businessr says that 299 families iv original University (Village South), ad h about 190 children ar With more two- H bedroom apartments Sl the 322 families in vt (Phase I of the village f;. project) have about 310,' between them. In all about 621 married coupt 500 children. When Villi (Phase II of the ei(' project) is completed,; with their (approximate children. So, next March Universiti will hold 943 families M; 800 children (which shook 1000 in a year or two.j children are born). Ther-waiting Ther-waiting list, Cox syas.ofab: couples. Other married studer families, infact. . .live in t-Medical t-Medical Plaza housing o: (continued on; A student mother combines her education and motherhood by attempting to study while keeping watch over one of her more important subjects. Photo by Jennifer cein Marrieds find that housing is a hassle iiiuiii page bj most of them in the five town houses. They have a total of 52' children. Of these children, both in Medical Plaza and in the village, approximately 50 percent are two years of age or under 25 percent are pre-schoolers from three to five and the remainder are school age (most in kindergarten, kin-dergarten, or fist and second grade). Jim Davis of the married students housing office says that when Village East opens next March nnnm bfrr ' n University housing (1000) will be about the same Percentage of the total as lived in 5 thTo7ritouwsin8tenvearsain the od adum v. new village on Sunnyside Avenue. This is about the same 5 Percentage as single student! Davis beheves that "now is the 5 ldl time for anyone interested $ n married student housing" sin' " $ new housing wi mae h wait.ng periods fairly short. J |