As one antidote to campus disorder, dozens of U.S. colleges have lately invited students to share the chores of administration. Key faculty committees boast voting student members; boards of trustees bloom with recent graduates. Now the trustees of New Hampshire's Franconia College have gone a step farther. They have just named a graduate student as the school's new president. He is Leon Botstein—age 23.
The move was entirely appropriate for Franconia, a tiny (enrollment: 250) experimental college that has given its students a major voice in charting their studies ever since it opened in...
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