Philosopher Says Farewell to Northwestern U.; Mississippi State Faculty Rebuffed on Search Role

PHILOSOPHER FLEES: The Germanic-languages department at the University of California at Los Angeles will soon be home to John A. McCumber, chairman of the German department at Northwestern University and a prominent professor of German and philosophy.

Mr. McCumber, 56, joined Northwestern's philosophy department in 1982, but left it in 1997 when, he says, personal politics began to poison the atmosphere: "It became a departmental Afghanistan: no central authority, warlords using their

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