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Show Smart Coeds Rebellious Says Survey Today's intellectually gifted coeds are becoming boatrockers, reports an assistant professor in the counseling center of Michigan Michi-gan State University, 'East Lansing. Lans-ing. "Michigan state news" says that according to a five-year study of 101 talented women at MSU, Mrs. Dorothy R. Ross found them to be rebellious, critical of authority and less altruistic now than when the study began. Her study, concerning the upper up-per 1 per cent of freshmen women wo-men .found: A MAJOR SHIFT away from participation in traditional campus camp-us activities during the five-year period. Their membership in campus organizations fell from 69 per cent in 1958 to 32 per cent in 1962. 'A slight decline in academic productivity. An increased desire for the combination goal of graduate study-career-marriage from 68 per cent in 1958 to 81 per cent in 1962. Continued concern over finding find-ing a mate who is her equal or superior. |