When asked what he has done during
his 15 years at the University of Chicago,
Robert Maynard Hutchins, 45, likes to
answer: "Nothing at all." Last week the indolent president had once again done nothing but stir up a good section of U.S. higher education. The latest innovations and heterodoxies:
> Hutchins suggested that university presidents be given increased powers and be elected with faculty advice for a very short term, subject to impeachment by a faculty vote of no confidence−with responsibility for University policies then falling on the faculty.* > Hutchins proposed that faculty...