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...Hanson has not responded publicly to Dershowitz and was unavailable for comment yesterday...
...latest round of campus discourse on the issue of divestment, Winthrop House residents discussed over their House e-mail list how to respond to Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz’s call for a debate with Master Paul D. Hanson...
Dershowitz challenged Hanson, who signed a petition last spring advocating that the University protest Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians by divesting, to debate divestment in an Op-Ed in the Crimson yesterday...
Dershowitz said that if Hanson did not agree to debate him, he hoped students would invite him to make his case unopposed...
Universities should encourage widespread debate and discussion about divisive and controversial issues. A House master who peremptorily signs a petition and then hides behind “other priorities” does not serve the interests of dialogue and education. I hope that Hanson will accept my challenge, and that if he does not, that I will be invited by his students to help fill the educational gap left by the cowardice of those who have signed this petition and refuse to defend their actions in public debate...