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Coeds Are Cautious Toward Marriage
College, according to authorities in Washington, D.C., has a strange effect on women. It makes them stop, look and listen before they get married.
Surveying current marriage trends, the Population Reference Bureau in Washington has issued a statement containing the fact that this year there will be about 1.8 million marriages in the United States.
The bureau has advice for worried parents who hope their daughters will not plunge into marriage before they have a chance to see the world: Get her into college fast!
Some 220,000 girls will marry this month, and the majority of them will be teenagers. The boys they marry will be only slightly older.
ON THE AVERAGE. a college career delays a girl's marriage about four years. The PRB emphasizes the word average, but the statistics are conclusive.
Other intriguing, isolated and sometimes paradoxical facts relating to college graduates and their marriages were cited:
- Women will receive almost 40 per cent of the bachelor's degrees and first professional degrees, and a third of the master's degrees, but only 11 per cent of the doctoral degrees.
- Approximately 596,300 students make up the college class of 1964. Approximately 38 per cent are worep.
- Marriage has been firmly woven into the fabric of campus life ever since the first GI invaded college campuses after World War II. The mothers and fathers of today's graduates would have been expelled from most colleges a generation ago had they married while in school. Today, undergraduate marriage in the major colleges is taboo only in the armed services academies.
- Almost one-fourth of all students who will graduate this year are already married. An army of children and babes-in-arms will attend graduation ceremonies for pop and mom or both. (Another 13 per cent of the June graduates expect to marry before the summer is over.)
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Four out of five of the married graduates are men. The scarcity of women reflects in part the fact that many coeds who marry drop out of college to bolster the family income, often making it possible for their husbands to graduate.
PERHAPS ONE of the most revealing set of figures the PRB found determines the worth of enough of an education. The bureau found the most frequent age at marriage for
Seven to Make Colorado Visit
Seven foreign students at KU have been accepted for participation in the 1964 Summer Crossroads program June 7-13 at Colorado Springs, Colo. 50 students who
They are among 50 students who at the end of their study in the United States, will evaluate their experiences here.
experiences in the seven, all graduate students, are Aziz Abu Samra, Broummana, Lebanon; Soo-Tian Goh, Singapore; Vibeke Anderson, Skive, Denmark; Gisela John, Hamburg, Germany; Anke Neumann, Mulheim (Ruhr); Germany; Maria Sladek, Vienna, Austria, and Jutta Vogl, Graf, Austria.
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The Colorado program will consist of discussions on American culture, foreign policy and education, and of social events and sightseeing. Hosts will be families in the community.
The program is sponsored by the Institute of International Education, community hospitality groups and collegiate institutions.
3 Named Directors
The election of Robert H. Malott of New York City, John F. Eberhardt of Wichita and Kenneth S. ("Bud") Adams Jr. of Houston to five-year terms on the board of directors of the University of Kansas Alumni Association has been announced. They were chosen in a record high mail vote in which 5,596 ballots were cast by paid members of the association.
women college graduates is 22 years, for high school graduates 18 years, and for women who did not attend high school 14-16 years.
Among married women, a larger proportion of college graduates has jobs, according to the Bureau of the Census. In 1960, 42 per cent of the married college graduates were employed and only 32 per cent of the high school graduates.
AMONG OTHER things, the bureau discovered that since 1949, the number of women who graduate from college each year has nearly doubled, increasing from 117,900 to 224,000. The number of men had increased only 23 per cent, mainly because of the disappearance of GI's from college campuses.
It appears that a college degree is a passport to a better job. The 1960 census reported that all women with an income only 6 per cent made more than $5,000. Twenty-four per cent of women college graduates had an income of more than $5,000, as did 45 per cent of those who had completed some college work.
The college dropout ratio is the same for both sexes: 4 out of every 10 who enter. Among women, marriage is most frequently given as the reason for leaving school.
People who have studied population trends have long recognized that education affects time of marriage and fertility. Commenting on the current trends, Robert C. Cook president of the Population Reference Bureau, said:
"The average age at marriage has been declining in the United States over the past 50 years. Today, the model age of marriage—the most frequent age at which women get married—is 18. Girls who graduate from high school tend to marry somewhat later, though the married high school student is no longer a rarity. Girls who attend college marry considerably later than those who do not. This is true even though a goodly number of coeds marry before they graduate.
"IT MAY SEEM paradoxical that a college degree delays marriage for a girl, since she is constantly in contact with boys her own age. One can imagine several reasons for this. Familiarity with many young men may breed, if not contempt, at least a more choosy, critical attitude. Furthermore, while a good many young college men marry while in school the majority do not. The amorous goings-on on college campuses have been the subject of wide discussion in recent months. But these changing campus mores seem not to have caused the college marriages to sky-rocket."
Cook noted that college graduates who delay marriage tend to have fewer children than women who marry in their teens.
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His skin is black, but he went South anvwav.
He is the first Negro reporter on a large metropolitan newspaper south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Negro Cracks Line on Kentucky Paper
At KU Alsbrook made steady progress in his studies. He became an honor roll student and a member of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism society.
James Alsbrock of the University of Kansas began duties as a general reporter on the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal in February. And although he went with no reservations, he didn't want his pioneering efforts known publicly until he proved himself.
He also won a William Randolph Hearst award for investigative reporting and a KU feature writing award, all while serving as resident director of one of KU's independent men's halls.
HE ATTENDED college long before making his decision to finish at KU. He attended Kansas City (Kan.) Junior College, Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo., and Temple University of Philadelphia, all in the 1940s.
ALSBROOK ENTERED the William Allen White School of Journalism three years ago. He earned the bachelor's degree a year ago, and he received the master's degree in journalism this spring.
It is an experiment no longer. He is not only pleased in his new job he is already a success. In his short tenure there, his feature stories have received nationwide attention through the press wire services. And he is a happy man.
Alsbrook isn't a youngster. He is a veteran of World War II, and his journalistic background includes jobs as sports and theatrical editor of the Kansas City Call and the St. Louis Call, and Midwest correspondent for the Afro-American newspapers of Baltimore, Md.
What did Alsbrook think would be ahead of him?
Plan Study in Germany
For two years before coming to KU he was public relations counselor of the Douglas State Bank of Kansas City, and since 1957 he has been public relations director of the Crusader Life Insurance Co. of Kansas City. And for 12 years he owned a chain of wholesale and retail poultry houses in Kansas City.
Direct exchange scholarships for study next year in Germany have been awarded to two KU women at the University of Kansas. Karen McKinsey, a special student from Lawrence, will study at the University of Mainz, and Elizabeth Stockton, a senior from Independence, Mo., will study at the University of Hamburg.
"PREJUDICE IS JUST as bad in Kansas City as it is in Louisville, both now and in the past, but this newspaper (The Courier-Journal) has been an instrument which has established a congenial atmosphere between Negro and white. I think I'll be all right there," he said before he left.
Alsbrook is the third Negro KU graduate in recent years to make breakthroughs into some previously all-white journalism media.
George Leslie Brown Jr., a 1950 journalism graduate, was the first Negro hired on a metropolitan daily newspaper west of the Mississippi River when he accepted a reporting job on the Denver Post in 1950.
FOR A TIME. Brown combined journalism (night city editor on the Post) and politics (he served two terms as state senator), to win recognition as one of the 15 "bright young
The joining this fall of a third fulltime faculty member, was announced at the annual board meeting of the Kansas school. He will be a member of the Eoiscional Church.
Dr. Robert J. Squier has been named chairman of the New KU department of anthropology.
Squier Will Head KU Anthropology
Dr. Squier, an archaeologist and an ethnologist, has been associate chairman of the anthropology division of the previously combined department of sociology and anthropology. He also has been an associate curator of the Museum of Natural History.
In the fall of 1965, a Methodist-supported faculty member will join the full-time staff.
Dr. Squier earned the B.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of California at Berkeley in 1951 and 1963, respectively. He was a research assistant and teaching assistant at Berkeley from 1951-58 before coming to KU.
The full-time staff of the Kansas School of Religion—the interdenominational, independent academic affiliate of the University of Kansas—will expand from two to four members by fall of 1965.
School of Religion Staff to Expand
The board elected R. Edwin Browne, director of radio stations KANU-KFKU, president.
Others elected were Robert C. Casad, assistant professor of law, vice president; Ruth E. McNair, assistant professor of biology, secretary, and Ernest Griswold, professor of chemistry, treasurer.
men in politics" from Sen. Paul Douglas (D-Ill.) in 1958. In the summer of 1962 he was on a fourman team conducting journalism workshops in Africa under the auspices of the U.S. State Department.
Ben Holman, a 1952 journalism graduate, who spent nine years as a reporter on the Chicago Daily News, was one of the first Negro newsmen in television. Holman worked for WBEM-TV in Chicago, then went to CBS News in New York, where he frequently appears on the Walter Cronkite newscasts.
Professor of German Receives Fulbright
Baeumier will be visiting professor at the Technische Hochschule, Stuttgart, where he will lecture on 18th Century German literature.
Max Baeumer, associate professor of German, has received a Fulbright fellowship for 1964-65 to teach and do research at Stuttgart, Germany.
A KU assistant professor of German, Helmut Huelsbergen, has been invited to lecture on comparative literature at the University of Kiel, Germany. He declined the invitation for the 1964-65 school year, however, to continue teaching duties at KU.
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