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4—TM1 NORTH TRXAS DAILY
TUESDAY, APRIL 2,1974
Families Remain Stable
Study Shows Families Basically Unchanged
By VICTOR CORTINAS
Daily Reporter
When Rudy Seward, sociology gradu-
ate assistant, began his study of the
American family, he had planned on
using the research for his dissertation
only, but he went beyond his original
intentions and compiled a “fairly exten-
sive” description of the family.
“The study attempts to present the
structural history of the American fami-
ly size ranging from the colonial times
to the present,” he explained.
“The biggest change seems to be
a trend in the reduction of children,” he
said. He pointed to a number of reasons
ranging from the availability of contra-
ceptives to a change of attitudes which
might explain the trend.
In addition to this, Seward explained
there has been a change in adult values
Star Trek
Photo by JOE SALLEY
Members of the physics department begin the task
of transforming a truck load of spare parts and mili-
tary surplus equipment into a planetarium. The
planetarium, which will use a military surplus radar
dome, will be set up in Room 305 A of the Historical
Building. Dr. Bruce Foster of the physics faculty,
who is directing the operation, said he is not sure
when the planetarium will be ready.
HE SAID many people have an im-
pression of the family as a large, ex-
tended unit, which includes grandparents
as part of the unit.
We wanted to see how true that was,
how much change has taken place in the
family, and also try to measure the ef-
fect of industrialization and urbaniza-
tion,” he noted.
General findings showed that the
family has remained essentially the
same, according to Seward. The “nu-
clear” family unit—parents and chil-
dren—has not changed from the colonial
period to the present and there was a bit
higher percentage of families that were
extended, he added.
Planetarium
Construction
To Begin
concerning children. In the rural com-
munity the child was thought of as a
worker, and when the child labor laws
were drafted they affected these people,
he noted.
Involvement in wars also had its ef-
fect. During the Civil War there were
less children born, he said.
Students Swap Politics for Beer
'Solid Seventies' Arrive
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP)—
The T-shirts tell the story.
Instead of "Peace Now” or “Off The
Pigs," beachbound students flaunt such
slogans as “Let's Go Streaking” and
“Sex Is Fun.”
Yough people are returning to this At-
lantic Coast resort for the annual spring
rites of sun, surf, suds and sex, but they
are greatly changed from the 1960s mobs
a prosecutor termecf“the college cruds.”
THE SOLID Seventies have arrived,
indeed.
On the sands where 10 years ago there
were 20 guys for every doll, young fe-
males toasting in the sun outnumber the
males.
Policemen patroling the beach are
greeted by smiles instead of a chorus of
“oinks.”
The odor of gallons of suntan oil wafts
on breezes that in years past more often
carried the pungent scent of marijuana.
“There’s a lot more girls here
than there used to be. In fact. I'd guess
it’s about 60-40 in favor of the females.
Even the sexual pursuit role has been re-
versed with girls out hunting guys,”
Dalton says.
In the early and mid-1960s, most col-
leges released students for spring vaca-
tion at the same time. The movie,
“Where The Boys Are," had played at
campuses across the nation, and its ro-
manticized view of the Florida mating
game spurred thousands of students to
make the trek south.
sometimes turned into mobs and vented
their frustrations on the city.
The climax came in 1967 when about
2,500 youths spilled off the beach onto
the streets and blocked traffic. The
youths looted soft drinks, produce and
bakery trucks, and officers who arrived
to quell the disturbance were met with a
barrage of bottles, vegetables and beer
cans filled with sand.
most of them students.
But healing time seems to have done
its work. The same Fort Lauderdale po-
lice force that once had a reputation as
the scourge of studentdom was compli-
mented in a recent local television edi-
torial for its considerate and fair treat-
ment of young visitors.
The physics department is using spare
parts and military-surplus equipment
to create a planetarium in the Historical
Building.
The department, according to Dr.
Bruce Foster of the physics faculty, will
erect a military-surplus radar dome in-
side the present Solar Room in 305A.
Dr. Foster stated that the radar dome
will be suspended from the ceiling of the
room, leaving a “crawl space” of about
3 feet beneath the rim of the hemisphere.
The constellations will be projected on
the inside of the dome by a device which
Dr. Foster characterized as “a big ball
with lots of holes on the outside, and a
light bulb on the inside.” This “mini-
planetarium” can be rotated to simulate
the progression of the stars through the
night sky during the various seasons.
Declining to name an exact date for
completion of the new facility. Dr. Fos-
ter said it is planned mainly as a teaching
tool for Physics 105-106 classes.
The dome must still be painted on the
inside and a ventilation hole presently at
the top covered. Also, the department
hopes to carpet the floor beneath the
dome for more comfortable seating.
Later, the planetarium area will also be
partitioned off.
“THEN THERE was the big baby
boom in the ’50s, right after World War
II," he added.
Seward used three main time peri-
ods as sources for his research. The first
of these was the colonial period. He
claimed that historians had primarily
done most of the work in this period by
going back and reconstructing families
through the use of wills and family trees.
The 19th century was the next seg-
ment of the research. In this period ori-
ginal manuscripts that census bureaus
used furnished Seward with information,
he said.
HE NOTED that in 1850 the census
listed every person. In the period from
1850 to 1880, the national sample select-
ed included 9,600 households separated
by age, sex and race. Quasi households
were also included in this sample.
Seward explained that these were
“households” such as boarding houses.
“Lodgers and servants were counted
as part of the family, which made the
survey misleading,” he noted. “Our
study attempted to eliminate these in-
dividuals from the family."
The 20th century was the final source
for Seward’s research. In 1940, the
Census Bureau changed the definition
of a family to only immediate family
members, he said. This made the collec-
tion of data much easier.
The research took one year to com-
plete and left Seward with the belief that
other factors should be considered when
examining changes in the family.
He jokingly concluded that the re-
search, "Raised more questions than it
answered.”
BUT THE students usually failed to
find the picture's version of fun in the
sun in the real Fort Lauderdale, and
hordes of bored, womenless young men
FOR TWO days, mobs of students
hit and ran like guerrillas, taunting po-
lice, damaging passing autos and tying
up traffic. Officers responded by break-
ing up large gatherings, clearing the
and arresting more than 800 people,
A RECENT week saw students ac-
count for only 10 per cent of the 158 peo-
ple who were arrested, compared with
some 700 students who were tossed into
the city jail in a two-day period seven
years ago.
“The students seem to have changed.
They've mellowed," says Police Lt.
George Fitzpatrick, one of the officers
who works out of a temporary beach-
front precinct that opens its doors for a
few weeks each spring.
“It used to be the kids would bang
their hands against your patrol car as
you drove by just to see if they could get
a reaction out of you. They don’t do that
now. I just took a walk along the street
to see what was going on, and 1 didn't
hear a single person say ‘oink, oink.'
The kids just smile and say ‘hello.’ ”
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TERRY DALTON, who for five years
has worked as a lifeguard or beach con-
cession attendant during Fort Lauder-
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than the students’ manners have
changed.
"You don’t see any political activists
now," Dalton says. “Even the slogans on
the T-shirts aren’t political. Dope is way
off from three or four years ago, too.”
He surveyed the beach where most
of the 11,000 young people in town were
soaking up the sun or frolicking in the
surf.
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