[GPhiBLtColonel]

....compared to other California colleges, perhaps USC was not so liberal back in the 70's -- I don't know how it is now as I have not lived in Southern Californoa for many decades.

But you know, I sure felt like USC was liberal when I was there! As an ROTC cadet who was being personally subjected to jeers merely for wearing my ROTC uniform on campus, and witnessing up close and personal antiwar protests on campus, being dropped like a hot potato at a dance when my so-called date found out I was in ROTC...well to me who experienced it first-hand, it sure seemed pretty liberal!
I am not sure what perspective your parents are coming from to say USC was not very liberal but I would respectfully have to disagree with them.

Anyways, I do not advocate lying, nor did my earlier post advocate lying, but what I did advocate is NOT volunteering the info right from the git-go...just as one would not volunteer other "sensitive" info right at the start, e.g. Rushee: "Hi, I'm Mary and I'm gay..." or "Hi, I'm Mary and my father is in prison..." etc

I do/did advise that at some point before pref party day (to avoid precisely the problem lauradav points out -- e.g. wasting a quota opportunity) scprettygirl will hopefully feel comfortable enough to put the fact of her marriage out in the open in some way...