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...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...
Among those who signed this immoral petition was Winthrop House Master Paul Hanson...
...wrote to Prof. Hanson challenging him to debate me in the Common Room of Winthrop House about his decision to sign the petition. He refused, citing “other priorities.” I can imagine few priorities more pressing than to justify to his students why he is willing to single out Israel for special criticism. Accordingly, I hereby request an invitation from the students of Winthrop House to conduct such a debate, either with Hanson present or with an empty chair on which the petition which he signed would be featured...
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...