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UNL competes
for funding
By Wendy Navratil
Senior Reporter
Nebraska’s eligibility for EPSCOR fund
ing should be viewed as a boost, not an
embarrassment, to the state’s research
programs, UNL officials said.
Bill Splinter, interim vice chancellor for
research at the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln, said the state became eligible for funding
through the Experimental Program to Stimu
late Competitive Research, after being classi
fied as a state that did not have a “significant
track record in research activities.”
“We were not the top people in research —
that’s the bad news,”,Splinter said. “The good
news is that we just barely became eligible.”
Don Weeks, director of the Center for Bio
technology, said Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Ncb.,
worked to have Nebraska and Kansas declared
EPSCOR states. Nebraska became eligible last
spring for the first time.
“This is a very definite opportunity to con
tinue to build enhanced research programs and
allow us to maintain a growing momentum,”
Weeks said.
If Nebraska successfully competes with the
17 other eligible slates and Puerto Rico, $3 to
$6 million could be generated for Nebraska’s
research programs, Weeks said.
Ten to 12 states probably will receive the
EPSCOR funding, Splinter said.
Nebraska’s chances of competing success
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Classifieds11
! Study shatters notions about marriage
* By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
Couples who live together be
fore marriage are more likely
to divorce than those who don't.
This is not a common myth; it is
one of the Findings of an 11-year
study of divorce based at the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln.
David Johnson, chairman of the
sociology department at UNL, has
participated in the study with fellow
UNL sociology professor Lynn White
and assistant professor Paul Amato
and Alan Booth, aprofessor of sociol
ogy at Penn State University.
The group has followed a national
sample of 2,033 married persons,
interviewing them in 1980,1983 and
1988. Another interview will lake place
in 1992.
Johnson said the study is focused
on “marital instability over the life
course,” or the factors that cause
divorce.
The findings, which have been
published in about 25 journal articles
since the study began, have attempted
to shed new light on the causes of
divorce.
Johnson said onc-of the study’s
major conclusions was its findings on
the chances of divorce among people
who live together.
Their conclusion on cohabitation
runs contrary to a popular notion of
living together as a training period,
he said.
“It’s not the cohabitation experi
ence itself that causes higher divorce
rates,” he said. “It’s that people who
cohabit tend to have characteristics
of divorce.”
He said people who live together
tend to have a more casual view of
relationships and have more personal
problems.
“The same values that make it
appropriate for them to cohabit also
make it more likely for them to di
vorce,’' he said.
Johnson said the group also dis
covered that, contrary to popular
opinion, marriages do not grow sig
nificantly more stable over time.
“What we find is that your odds of
experiencing marital instability don’t
change,” he said.
He said that people who arc likely
to divorce do so early. Marriages that
survive tend to stay the same rather
than grow stronger.
“The process of being married
longer doesn’t mean you are less likely
to have a divorce,” Johnson said.
He said the group also concluded
that second marriages are not more
prone to divorce than first marriages
unless stepchildren arc involved. He
added that women working outside
the home adds both stress and stabil
ity to a marriage.
Johnson stressed the importance
of working on strengthening relation
ships early in marriages.
“Our results show that the things
you do early, you arc going to do
later.”
UNL comparatively sate, police chiet says
By Lori Stones
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln is “one of the safest cam
puses” in comparison to other
Big Eight universities, UNL police
chief Ken Cauble said.
UNL ranked fourth among Big
Eight campuses in 1990 in the num
ber of crimes with 758, according to
an FBI report. But, Cauble said, a
higher city population could skew the
number. Lincoln has about 100,000
more people than any other city with
a Big Eight university.
Felice officials at Big Eight uni
versities say crime statistics reported
to the FBI vary from campus to cam
pus because of the demographics of
the city in which the school is located,
enrollment and the number of com
missioned police officers at each
school.
Statistics for the ranking came from
the combined number of violent and
properly crimes. Violent crimes in
clude murder/non-negligcnt man
slaughter, rape, robbery and assault.
Property crime includes burglary,
larceoy/theft, motor vehicle theft and
arson.
At the University of Kansas in
Lawrence, Kan., 960 crimes were
reported in 1990, making it the high-.(
est in number of reported crimes in
the Big Eight. Lawrence has a popu
lation of 65,608, including the uni
versity.
But Burdel Welsh, KU commu
nity services officer, said 80 percent
of the crimes committed on campus
aren’t done by students.
“At almost every institution, the
crime rate is almost half of the city
rate," he said.
In Lincoln, the city crime rale is
70.1 percent and the campus crime
rate is 31.6 percent, he said.
Neal Slone, policcchicf at Univer
sity of Oklahoma in Norman, Okla.,
said the location of the school ex
plained the high crime incident at
OU. That university ranks third with
818 reported crimes.
Norman, a suburb of Oklahoma
City, has a population of 80,071 and
is near a major interstate. Nearly 1
million people visit the campus each
year because of sporting events and
other functions, Stone said.
OU was the only Big Eight cam
pus to have a murder committed in
1990. OU also had the highest inci
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Crime statistics for Big Eight universities
NCrime is defined in the following categories:
murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, Total Total Climes
burglary, theft, vehicle theft and arson. Students reported
Univ. of Colorado
at Boulder 25,176 868
Iowa State 26,475 708
Kansas State 19,301 526
Oklahoma State 21,558 312
Univ. of Kansas 26,020 960
Univ. of Missouri
at Columbia 23£68 706
Univ. of
Nebraska-Lincoln 23,985 758
nlv. of Oklahoma 22,225 818
AVERAGE 23,760 827.9
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
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