No Long-Term President and No Prospects

How politics on and off the campus scuttled the search for a leader at the U. of Florida

From his 15th-floor office with its wall of windows, Adam W. Herbert had a bird's-eye view of the State Capitol and legislative buildings here.

That view was always before Mr. Herbert, chancellor of the State University System, in the days last spring when his search for a new president of the University of Florida imploded. All six finalists dropped out in quick succession, some of them

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