Marriage and Grades

Austin, Texas--(I.P.)-Wedding bells and classroom bells do not necessarily produce the sweetest harmony for college couples, according to Dean of Students Glenn Barnett of the University of Texas. "Contrary to the frequently heard belief that marriage acts as a stabilizing factor and  makes the student buckle down, we find marriage seldom makes a good student out of a poor one," Dean Barnett states. "If the wife was a competent student and dropped out for marriage," Dean Barnett says, "she frequently feels an underlying resentment if her student husband does not excel. In many cases, his grades go down as the time and concentration needed for his work are nibbled away by the demands of family life."