The concept of the MRS degree is nothing new. At Ole Miss, the stereotype that the women in specific academic programs are only looking for a husband stems directly from the old idea that this was the norm for all women at our university. While it might have been common for our grandmothers’ and great-grandmothers’ generations, the concept of the MRS degree as the...
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It’s been a week since Susan Patton’s letter to The Daily Princetonian, in which she urges young Princeton women to “find a husband on campus before you graduate.” “Men regularly marry women who are younger, less intelligent, less educated,” Patton writes. She says that the number of worthy men on campus will dwindle as you get older, and by the time you’re...
