Marty Braun created a full page feature for the current issue of Bates, the magazine of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine for an article titled “The 60% Solution.” There is a myth at Bates, surprisingly also common at other colleges, that 60% of Bates students who marry wed other Bates students.

The real figure is about 13%, just as it is at most colleges! The story digs at the truth of the myth, offers student and alumni reactions to it, and ponders why it has continued to be believed and accepted as truth.