PAGt t
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1969
Some students find . . .
Marriage and graduation
provide mixed hardships
by John Nollendorfs
Neoraskan Stafi Writer
"It's not any harder being a student
when you are married. It might even
be easier," one student commented
aoout his college career and mar
riage. Although somewhat misleading, this
idea dominates the thinking of many
married students.
Because of the pressure of school,
the hardships and frictions to be en
countered in marriage are usually
more serious for students. The wife
often is expected to quit school and
take on the role of bread winner.
THE HUSBAND also works part
time as he struggles to keep up in
classes. This situation, where role
conflicts may be present along with
the general pressure of school, puts
an extreme strain on marriage.
Even so, married students usually
say they feel more secure. If there
are financial problems, parents
usually tide them over, or low cost
college loans are easily available.
Married students comprise over 20
per cent of the University student
population, according to recent
statistics. Most of the marrieds are
either upper classmen close t o
graduation or graduate students.
Marriage seems most accepted and
prevalent among the graduate
students. After completing four years
or so of undergraduate work, the cou
ple sometimes tires, of holding off
marriage any longer if graduate
school is considered.
"WE DIDN'T want to wait another
four years," said Dennis Burchard,
a married senior dn Law College.
The Burchard's were married soon
after completing his undergraduate
work. Burchard said that at the time
of their marriage, his wife had
graduated and had been teaching. He
had been working part-time also.
"We weren't extremely well off
financially, but were getting by very
well," Burchard said. "If we hadn't
felt we could afford to get married,
we wouldn't have," his wife added.
Bruchard emphasized that it is very
Important to continue in school once
married. "You can't quit school, work
for two years and then go back. It
won't work. Uncle Sam will get you,"
he said.
, THERE IS probably a best time
to get married while in college, he
said.
"Those kids who got married while
thev were freshmen regretted it," he
said, "while the upper classmen
usually don't."
He said that the wife usually works
to support both of them, and may
get the wrong attitude about the
husband's gaining an education,
seemingly without half the effort she
is putting forth.
"Four years of this kind of living
would be a strain on any rela
tionship," Burc'iard said.
He said that marriage had not af
fected his studying much. "What it
does in the long run," he said, "is
give less potential time for studying.
But you spend more actual time in
studying because you know you don't
have time to waste."
David Fitzsimmons, a fifth year
architecture student, said that the
possibility of the draft after gradua
tion prompted him to get married.
He said that if he got drafted after
graduation, it would have put their
marriage off another two years. He
and his wife had been dating four
years before their marriage last
August.
"WE FELT we could afford to get
married," Fitzsimmons said. "Any
security gained from waiting another
Spring
competition
to begin
While University students are
beginning spring vacation, University
spring athletic squads are starting
their spring schedules.
NU's baseball squad opens its Bi
Eight campaign with a 1:30 p.m. Fri
day doubleheader and a 1 p.m. Satur
day single game against Kansas State
on the Vine Street diamond this
weekend. Then next Friday, Okla
homa meets coach Tony Sharpe's
Huskers in a doubleheader followed by
a Saturday afternoon single attrac
tion. Meanwhile Coach Frank Sevigne's
outdoor tracksters open the season
with Arizona and Long Beach State
at Tucson Saturday and then travel
to Temple to meet Arizona State next
Wednesday. The team opens its home
slate in Lincoln next Saturday against
Air Force.
Coach Harry Good's NU golfers face
Creighton University in Omaha next
Thursday before returning to Lin
coln's Holmes Golf Course for a next
Saturdav match against Iowa State.
Coach Ed Hlgglnbotham's tennis
squad meets Air Force Academy and
Creighton University in Lincoln at 10
a.m. Saturday before leaving
Nebraska for a five-game road trip.
The netters meet Washburn at
Topeka next Monday, Wichita State
at Wichita Tuesday, the University
of Oklahoma (Big Eight Champion the
past three seasons) at Norman on
Wednesday, Oklahoma State on Thurs
day at Stillwater and Oklahoma Bap
tist at Shawnee next Friday to com
pete the Southern swing.
New pledges and officers of Eta
Kappa Nu electrical engineering
honorary are: Lucas Smith, president;
Charles Pearce, vice president; Tony
Kozllk, corresponding secretary; Dean
Bender, Bridge correspondent; Clar
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Michael Newman, treasurer; JeraU?
Varner, faculty adviser.
Pledges are: Eric Butler, Marc
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year wasn't that much." Dating was
ume consuming ana costly in com
parison, he said.
Fitzsimmons said that they had ap
proval from both families, although
his parents advised strongl against
it because they feared he wouldn't
graduate. As a wedding present his
parents did give him outstate tuition
for the remaining year.
Although marriage is more conve
nient than dating, Mrs. Fitzsimmons
said:
"We don't have as much time
together as we'd like to because both
of us work and he attends school.
Our relationship almost terminates
during finals and when projects are
due."
J. L. Greenwood, a sophomore in
dental school and married two years,
said that he was married without
much thought toward finances or
school. He said that his finances
weren't good, but that he didn't have
to borrow money.
MRS. GREENWOOD said that she
worked a year and a half before at
tending the Univessity where she met
her husband. When they were married
she returned to work. She said that
she didn't mind working and that she
went to college largely for fun.
Getting married, Greenwood said,
depends on the people and the
circumstances, adding that money is
especially important. He said that the
college financial bind is only tem
porary, and that if a loan is
necessary, it is worthwhile because
of the greater earning potential after
graduation.
Although the Greenwoods do not
receive financial aid from their
parents, Greenwood said he could rely
on his father in a financial crisis.
He said that he works each summer
to earn his outstate tuition.
Married before coming to college,
Dennis Meyer said that he spent six
years working in a "dead end" job
before entering the University to
study animal science.
THE MEYERS have been married
seven years, nearly four of which
have been spent in college. Meyer
said that the only problem he found
in going back to school was that he
felt he was behind today's youth in
such classes as math and physics
where concepts have advanced.
They have two children, a girl one
and a half years old and a boy one
month.
To finance his education, Meyer
said he received a loan from a
hometown bank and the government
pays half the interest charges. He
said that he has another loan from
a brother he had helped through
school.
Dan Looker, a senior English major
married for five months, said, "We
could be considered in poverty
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pus Both the Lookers are working part
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"IT'S NOT hard to live a com
fortable life, but it isn't exactly lux
ury," he said. If the folks weren't
helping with tuition and books, it
would be a lot rougher, he added.
Mrs. Ruby Gingles, associate
director of the school of home
economics, said that it is easier to
get married in college today because
It is accepted. People don't feel mar
ried students are different.
Mrs. Gingles. who did a research
study of early marriages In Nebraska,
said that one hazard of getting mar
ried while still in school is in not
completing the education.
"I think more students complete
college after marriage than ten years
ago," she said. She said that in many
cases girls continue classes even after
they are pregnant.
MRS. GINGLES said that , if the
couples can handle their
responsibilities, marriage releases sex
tensions, resulting in a more relaxed
and possibly better student. However,
she questioned the generalization that
any student who gets married
receives better grades.
Although statistics show that mar
ried students do earn better grades,
she said that these figures may be
influenced by the number of returning
G.I.'s. She implied that maturity can
play a great part in the grades a
student earns.
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Mrs. Gingles said that if two college
students want to get married, they
would be advised to wait until the
goal is in sight. Although it is diffucult
when both husband and wife are in
school, there are advantages. They
then appreciate that each has to have
time to study, she said.
However one looks at it, marriage
while still in college in some respects
is an artificial situation, Mrs. Gingles
said. Many married students may live
in a kind of limbo in which they keep
saying that all will change when the
husband graduates. A diploma is not
necessarily the answer to all problems
and tensions.
Dr. W. K. Beggs
leaving faculty
after 30 years
After more than 30 years on the Uni
versity faculty, Dr. Walter K. Beggs,
dean of Teachers College, is retiring.
Beggs will not leave his post until
next February, but a search com
mittee has already been appointed to
find a replacement.
Hopefully, said Beggs, a new dean
will be appointed sometime in the fall.
The new dean would then have an op
portunity to work with Beggs, possi
bly for an entire semester.
A native of Iowa, the 63-year-old
Beggs received the bachelor of arts
degree from Tarkio College (Mo.). He
earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from the
University.
Beggs joined the faculty in 1939 and
was named chairman of the depart
ment of history and philosophy of ed
ucation in 1954. In 1958 he became
dean of the Teachers College.
He has been a community and school
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