The former president of the University of Michigan has died. His obituary makes for fascinating reading: In the 1960s and 1970s, he defended the right of the armed forces to recruit on campus, tried to appease quota-mongering activists, and otherwise struggled to find an elusive middle ground between radical protest and common sense. By the time I arrived as a student in Ann Arbor, he was retired. But his namesake was already there and it lives on today: the Fleming Administration Building. Alas, it’s a big ugly cube. R.I.P. and Go Blue.