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Show X ib !M)u X 333 Mlilifll Wj (32'. C32 gUllQsfjljt? -- -- 4- DIXIESUNNEWS.COM rGidniaiiJpc A. WEDNESDAY, APRIL fealsufixs reojdooirss DDsgQ Don Using my own experience as a haleyhazen cautionary tale, I worry that students who marry young may also have a hard time finding the balance. Having an ally in your signifiWe are a little nocant other and being an ally in his torious around here for getting married at or hers dreams is essential. I talked with Karen Gubler, a a young age. ArY, senior art major from Cedar City, Marrying young encour-about the balance of being a wife f is heavily and a student. Gubler, who married i aged in our commuat the age of 22, will celebrate her nity. This can lead a anniversary next month. to a chasm where She said it isnt easy to balance student has to choose school, work and time for her husbetween doing well in school and band; they stay pursuing his or connected by enher goals or taking gaging each other time out for his or with homework hers significant sunshine problems or in not other for a healthy their martial arts relationship. business. According to the and rainbows and sex At the time she Utah Department was married, she of Health website, time. all of the said she thought the median age for she was an old a womans first maid, but looking marriage was 22, back, she thinks was a and mans she was really 24 in 2010. A Gubler Karen young to be mar- -' little over half of from a senior art major ried. The key to the couples who married in 2010 making it work, , Cedar City she said, is to had also had one of more or grow together as year you grow up. college. So, it is common for stuBeing married while in dents to be married in our state. college is different, Gubler I was married at the age of 18. laughed. Its good in its own way. You have someone built-i- n to go When I started college, I had a hard to everything with. But at the same time finding the balance between bewhat I wanted to do in life and time, you also have an excuse not to go. ing a wife. Fast forward to being She said there is an emphasis to divorced and 30, 1 have had to learn a few things the hard way. get married young in the communi BY HALEY HAZEN in Utah In 2010, there were 23,612 marriages at a 8.5 rate per 1,000 people. There were 10,146 divorces at a 3.7 rate, which means nearly 43 percent of marriages in Utah ended in divorce. Education: Approximately 5 percent of both brides and grooms had less than a high school level education 28.4 percent of brides and 32.3 percent of grooms had just a high school diploma 60.9 percent of brides and 57.6 percent of grooms had one year or more of college. Information from Utah Department of Health 20) . M &&& Marriage 15, LJ ar Its tJl.j just - i. -- t- & TriR'1 i i ty, but she advises younger students to enjoy the single years and take their time before settling down. When youre married, its completely different than you think its going to be, Gubler said. Its not just sunshine and rainbows and sex all of the time. In the end, I would never say marrying young and while in school is a bad idea, but it is crucial to know yourself and not get lost in the title of wife or husband Having personal goals and being an ally to help your significant other builds a stiong foundation between the two of you. By being an individual who complements the life of your partner, the marriage becomes a positive environment for personal growth. DIXIE SUN NEW Tsrrns) j 1.A it Student echos Suns election sentiments I would just like to let you guys know that I fully agree with the opinions that have been put in the paper pertaining to student elections. We had an amazing turnout for the number of people voting compared to previous years, but barely anyone showed up to the debate. Why is that? Yes, it was at an inconvenient time. I skipped a class just to go. But what other reasons? Not many people knew about it in the first place is one. Personally, they should have had more than just one debate, and yes, elections should have been more than two weeks long. If more people had gone to the debate, they would have seen just how dramatic of a difference there was in experience between the opponents. I wont name names, but two runners were completely unqualified. The runners against those two had the experience. Theyve got projects already in the works, and had successfully pulled off other projects and policy changes to help the students and school. They needed more time to finish other projects, though, or at least higher positions that would help them succeed. But they lost to what? More Club Rushes on the Diagonal? Seriously? Is there a way to do the elections over again? Maybe have a debate in each building and the teachers dismiss those that attend the debates? An incentive to attend and be more fully aware of whats going on and whos running? Maybe extra credit in the class youre skipping? Students need to be more aware of whos qualified and whos not before they just vote blindly to get out of an awkward situation. is V Sun tries comparing apples to oranges Why are we comparing Dixie States funding to top NCAA DI schools when Dixie is a NCAA DII school? When comparing funding to other schools, the athletic department and Dixie Sun News is comparing apples and oranges. Yes, BYU and Utah have much larger budgets than DSU; however, they are also much larger schools and members of some of the most prestigious athletic conferences in the country. When you compare budgets of schools in the PacWest or the RMAC (football will be transferring to this conference in 2016) e in budget expenses you will find that DSU is compared other DII schools. We compete with - and typically beat - athletic competitions from our conference. To compare DSU budget with schools that are over twice our size and those we do not compete against is misleading. Dixie State athletics has proven it can compete with the best DII schools in the country with our current budget so why are we comparing apples to oranges? 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