Cornell Dean Resigns Without Explanation; Columbia Grants Fellowship to Famed Rock Critic; a President's Pay Raise Riles Some Professors

IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES? Faculty members at Cornell University are still unsure why the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences was asked to resign last month.

On July 31, the university's outgoing president, Hunter R. Rawlings, announced he had accepted a letter of resignation from Philip E. Lewis, 59, dean of arts and sciences for the last seven years. In an e-mail message to faculty and staff members, Mr. Lewis explained that the university's president and the provost, Carolyn

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