Wednesday, november8, 1978
daily nebraskan
page 13
Survey finds rural, urban Nebraskans' values similar
Despite popular belief, only a few differences in values
I exist between Nebraska's rural and urban populations, ac
J cording to a survey.
I UNL's Bureau of Sociological Research, in its 1978
I Nebraska Annual Social Indicators Survey, interviewed
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The respondents were divided into three categories:
rural farm, rural non-farm and urban (those living in cities
larger than 2,500).
According to the report, rural residents are more apt to
express a stronger and more traditional family orientation
than do urban residents, including greater satisfaction
with their family lives.
Working mothers
The most marked difference between rural farm
families and non-rural and urban families was in regard to
working mothers. While 55 percent of rural non-farm resi
dents and urban residents favored mothers working when
husbands provided adequate support, only 41 percent of
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Dogpatch recreated
at Hawkins dance
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, Al Capp's "Dogpatch"
has seen its last day on the
tomic pages of America.
- But Sadie Hawkins and Lil
Abner will live again Nov.
t0 at East Campus' Sadie
Hawkins Dance.
I Sponsored by the East
Union Dances and Concert
Committee, the dance will
ijbe from 9 to 12 pjn. in
the East Campus Union.
The cost is $2.50 for admit
tance. The band, Urban Re
newal , will perform .
Those attending are
.urged to wear "Dogpatch"
. costumes, according to com-
f - mittee member Dan Rasby,
I who is organizing the dance.
I : . - They will also be able to
; "Vote for their favorite Sadie
K and Abner candidates.
Thi;. year's candidates for
Sadie Hawkins are Penny
jmber, homemaking,
education and extension:
v.-, Angie Hudson, homemak-
ing, education ana iamiiy
resources; Jane Kenner,
'elementary education; Ann
Koehler, agriculture, natural
resources, wildlife; Bev
Todd, agriculture, journal
ism; and Sue Walgren,
homemaking, advertising.
Three of the women are
from city campus.
A "We've got good support
from downtown this year,"
Rasby said. "We are pretty
: pleased with it."
The Lil Abner candidates
lire: Clark Andrews, agri
culture honors; Tim Cook,
agriculture economics; Tim
Graff, agriculture journal
Ism; Clair Hoesing, agricul
ture education; Glen
Poppert, agriculture honors;
and Scott Spilker, agricul
ture honors.
j Six men originally ap
plied to be candidates. How
ever, 12 women wanted to
participate, and the com
frnittee had to narrow the
.field. The women were
lasked to take on the
personality of Sadie
jlawkins during an inter
view. Dressed fitting the
part and taking on country
I
accents, they had to answer
questions such as how do
you plan to catch Lil
Abner? jvhat do you think
of women's liberation? Des
cribe a day fn the life of
Sadie Hawkins.
"The final candidates
were chosen on how crea
tive their answers were,
their spontaneity, personali
ty, and 'Dogpatch talent',"
Rasby said. Their talent will
be displayed in the four
minute sketch each of the
male and female candidates
must perform before the
voting.
The dance is inspired by
Al Capp's story of the
mayor of Dogpatch, who
held the first annual Sadie
Hawkins Day Race to try
to get rid of his unattrac
tive daughter. All the
eligible bachelors of Dog
patch had to enter and the
girls of the town chased the
men to catch husbands for
themselves.
ASUN
agenda
The ASUN Senate will
meet at 7 p.m. in the Ne
braska Union. Room num
ber will be posted.
I. Call to orderroll call
II. Approval of minutes
III. Appointments
IV. Open forum
V. Executive reports
VI. Old business
Senate bill no. 29
(Union Board)
Appropriations bill no.
16 (Money for Students
Day)
VIII. New business
Resolution no. 23 (Open
visitation)
Senate bill no. 30 (Fund
B study group report and
Touche Koss union man
agement audit)
Organic act no. 7 (ASUN
appointments)
IX. Annoucements
X. Adjournment
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rural farm residents expressed a similar attitude.
However, Lynn White, director of the 1978 NASIS,
and co-author with Alan Booth, said that "farm residents
do tend to be a bit more conservative than urban resi
dents, but most of the differences are small and many are
inconsistent."
Other findings in the report:
-Although just as many rural and urban residents have
considered divorce in the past two years, fewer rural
residents are currently divorced. This could possibly be
due to fewer rural residents actually getting divorced, a
higher remarriage rate in rural areas, and migration of
divorced people to urban settings.
-Farm residents are more likely to have a strong faith,
but are somewhat less likely to attend church regularly
than urban and non-farm residents, although the dif
ference between rural and urban residents is quite small.
-Farm residents are more likely to be Republican than
urban residents (48 percent vs. 34 percent), but differ
ences on political issues between rural and urban resi
dents are minor.
Community satisfaction
-Despite the inconveniences in terms of services and
facilities, rural residents, both farm and non-farm, are sig
nificantly more satisfied with the sommunities in which
they live than are urban residents. Convenience by itself,
according to the researchers, was not a strong factor in
determining satisfaction with place of residence. Omaha
Class
wins awar
ds
A UNL advertising class project dealing with combat
ting venereal disease has been awarded three prizes in a
nationwide competition.
The project won the awards from the Sexually Trans
missable Awards Competition. The contest was conceived
by a specialty advertiser from Atlanta, Ga.
The campaign won awards for the best radio commer
cial, best entries in the midwest region and one went to
instructor Albert Book.
Book said the campaign involved students in copy
writing, layout and production.
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respondents, for instance, expressed the most satisfaction
with convenience and the least satisfaction with place of
residence.
White and Booth, in comparing responses from persons
over 50 with those under 50 concluded that the current
rural-urban similarity is of long standing, although oldei
respondents were generally more conservative than
younger ones.
Interestingly, they found that in terms of religious par
ticipation there is a significantly stronger rural-urban dif
ferential among the under-50 population.
The researchers concluded that the education level o!
Nebraskans may account for at least part of the closei
similarity of groups in Nebraska.
Citing figures showing that the national tarn
population has completed only a little more than 10 yean
of formal education, they noted the education level ol
Nebraska's farm population is 12 years. The Nebraska'
farm population, in fact, is virtually the same as the urbar
population in terms of educational level.
"We suspect that the educational homogeneity ot Ne
braska's population may be an important factor ir,
reducing urban-rural differences," they concluded.
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