are worthy of you. find a husband on campus before you graduate. find a husband on campus before you graduate. that is part of the letter to the editor of princeton student newspaper written by the mother of a current student. that letter, by the way, as you may imagine, has stirred up a heck of course of complaints. susan patten is a princeton graduate. they are both kind enough to join me now. let the fireworks begin. susan, i want to begin with you. some people wrote right away, is this a joke? i want to ask you on the record on television was this satire? not at all. i couldn t have been more serious. so the next question is, you had to know that the hackles would be up not just on the
crutches. we ll talk to sanjay and the chances he ll play basketball again. that s coming up at the top of the hour. all right. we ll see you in a few moments. now get ready, our fifth story out front. ladies, get a degree and a ring. that is the basis of a controversial column from susan patton, one of the first female princeton graduates. in a letter to the princeton student newspaper, patton who has two sons both of whom went to princeton advises the daughter she never had to find a husband on campus before you graduate. smart women can t, shouldn t marry men who aren t at least their intellectual equal. there s a very limited population of men who are as smart or smarter than we are and i say again, you will never, again be surrounded by this concentration of men who are worthy of you. are these really words of wisdom? out front, the woman who worote the article. all right, susan, you stepped in it. let me start. i did. let me start with you.
all right, you ve been called an anti-feminist and embarrassment, excruciating, regressive, but you instant by what you said? i totally stand by what i said. i don t think anything about this is anti-feminist. it s not retro gresive. it s not even radical. women if in addition your career you want to be married and have children, you should think earlier about it than you might be planning to. in addition your career and understand that, but there is another way of looking at this. let s look at the annual cost of going to princeton. shock warning to anybody out there. i don t think it s worth going to those colleges. princeton is $40,000 a year. after $230,000, that s paying a