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English Department Chairman and BernbaumProfessor of Literature Joel Porte declined toelaborate on the department vote.
"If a professor at university `X,' `Y' or `Z'had it in for a particular scholar or for theHarvard English Department, they can do it in forus," said English Department Chairman Joel Porte,Bernbaum Professor of Literature.
Currently, the department is spread out in three buildings, with the senior faculty and department chair in Warren House on Prescott St. Most of the junior faculty are located in 17 Summer St., which Porte called a "wretched building" and assistant professor Roland Green said "is literally crumbling.
While the quality of instruction has not been affected, Porte said the poor office have made it harder to attract new faculty with such poor offices. Harvard is "known throughout the country for the almost insoluble problem," Green said.
"We feel very neglected," said Porte, pointing out that the History Department recently has its own renovated Robinson Hall. "English is the one major department where a building has not been found and refurbished for it."