The Dons Run Cambridge -- but Should They?

Professors say their wielding the ultimate authority has made the university great; reformers charge that the system blocks needed changes

At most universities in Britain, making changes in the institution's intellectual-property policy would be a job for the university council, a small body that is usually composed of outsiders like businesspeople, plus a few academics.

At the University of Cambridge, that responsibility falls to administrators and scholars -- all 3,000 of

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