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After he was denied tenure review after being an assistant and associate professor at Harvard for seven years, Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux publicly complained over the weekend about his treatment at the hands of the University. Many of his complaints appear to be justified and are symptomatic of larger problems with the University’s internal tenure process...
About one third of Harvard’s linguistics concentrators met Sunday night in the Winthrop House Dining Hall as a response to a plea by Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux for support in his fight to be considered for tenure...
...Bert is the only faculty member who has taken an active and passionate role in my Harvard education,” said Blake J. Boulerice ’04. “He helped me to realize that Linguistics was where I belong...
Between revelations, DJ Lindsay Brien—formerly of “Real World: Seattle”—interjects with “That’s amazing!” in her high-pitched, Kerry Strug-like voice. Bert Weiss, host of the infomercial, attempts to build sympathy for the sassy psychic by portraying her gift as an onus: “These spirits are constantly bombarding her mind with messages that she just can’t ‘turn off.’ They wake her up. They talk to her while she?...
...ADVENTURES OF BERT By Allan Ahlberg and Raymond Briggs. $16.00 Ahlberg and Briggs are the Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras of British kid lit. But - like most British tennis players, actually - they have not made much of an impression in the U.S. Reading a book by both is like seeing Agassi and Sampras play doubles: it's nimble, apparently effortless, playful work. The adventures of said Bert, who has a wife and easily waked baby, aren't too perilous. In one chapter (a concept the book cleverly introduces to younger readers), he puts on a shirt, falls into a truck...