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Wednesday, cugust24, 1977 daily nebraskan page2t Predictions made of 1 9 80 youth By Rex Henderson As the children of the post-World Var II baby boom pass into adulthood, a new generation of youth is enter ing the colleges and universities. Dr. Robert Egbert, dean of the UNL Teacher's College, is looking at the problems and changes this new group of college students will present to society. Egbert is completing a survey of literature on the pr blems and attitudes of this generation and looking toward further study of the subject. Population studies show that college-age youths are declining as a percentage of the population, according to Mary Kluender, a graduate student assisting Egbert in the study. .' . Egbert's study is looking at "the possibility that as you change the relationship of the number of youths to popu lation they may view themselves and society differently " Kluender said. Youth culture The post-war baby boom produced a dramatic rise in the number of college age youths as a percentage of the total U.S. population in the lu 6Qs and fueled what was known as the "youth culture," she said. That youth culture produced some sudden changes in society's attitudes towards youth, ana youth attitudes toward society, she said. Forum gets largest of five grants The Nebraska Forum on Human Values, a project of UNL's Division of Continu ing Studies, has been award ed the largest of five grants by the Nebraska Committee for the Humanities. The $36,323 grant could be increased $5,000 by the National Endowment for "the Humanities, according to project director Orvid Owens. The forum, which pro vides speakers to adult, non profit organizations through out the state, could receive the additional $5,000 if the state committee for the humanities can match the $5,000 with its own money. The speakers provided are all faculty members of Nebraska colleges and uni versities who teaJi history, philosophy, literature, ethicss social sciences, eco nomics and other fields of the humanities and are paid with the funds provided by the Humanities Committee, From September 1977 to June " 1978, the Nebraska Forum , which began in 1975 as the American Is sues Forum, will offer 21 topics and 21 different pro grams. ' Members of the Nebraska Committee for the Human ities, which provided the funding for the forum from UNL include Raymond . Haagh and Elmer MSler. 'Oui 1 33th I PREPARE FOR: LSAT MCAT 4 WEEK INTENSIVE COURSES MEETING 5N LINCOLN TWICE WEEKLY THROUGH SEPTEMBER. FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL -307 397 404? Test Preparation Specialist! i Since 1933 ENROLL NOW ; ) I'JIPUUI fJ- , , I (INKS Si 9 R 4 t .jet 1 V .4 JACK "Dynamite" WILKEN ROGER "Rated XXXX" MULLEN V V 7' i 1 She noted the Viet Nam war protests, student rebel lions on college campuses and changing regulations gov erning student life as the result of the youth culture. Kluender and Egbert are looking at the psychological and sociological changes the declining number of college students will produce. "'s study hopes to predict what kinds of students will be in universities during tho 1980s, according to Kluender. Individualism predicted The college students of the 1960's were very group oriented, Kluender said. The students of the future may be more individualistic because they grew up in smaller families. - - 1 The study also is looking at the changes in the military, businesses and schools necessary to deal with the new generation of students. "During the 1960's administrators had to look at students differently than before but I don't see a new .crisis emerging," she said. The impetus for Egbert's study came from a report by a national panel on major educational issues in 1973, chaired by Dr. James Coleman, a University of Chicago education professor, Kluender said. , ' Kluender said Egbert's literature s survey will be complete in September, The present study is being funded by a $9,944 grant fmn the U.S. Office of Education. ) r f 3 I A. J STEVE "Nytro" BEYER JOE "Green RANDY "Strte" BEYER I 1. i A' 62nd & i I If X MAX "High J V s. A. t M F'. X f 62nd & Havelock 466-6763 V t mr - r "( v. M ' Get to the Vickeridge for the jj i) newest styles on campus, u Jumpsuits in fall fashion colors. K Pants in all colors incuding y fashionable Black and Khaki, p 94 i Havelock 466-6763 WA V V. . w i VrK my: 3k V, Death" OLMSTEAD Alcohol" BEYER ' 1