Letter from a student at Harvard Law School

Regarding your tenure decisions

From: nela[at]law.harvard.edu
To: NormanGF[at]hotmail.com
Subject: Fwd: Regarding your tenure decisions
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:20:58 -0400

Dear Professor Finkelstein,

Just sent this to the president at DePaul, and saw that you've been posting some such things on your site. If you would like, feel free to post this as well.

All the best,

Nate Ela

From: nela[at]law.harvard.edu
Date: July 2, 2007 4:14:57 PM EDT
To: president@depaul.edu
Subject: Regarding your tenure decisions

Dear President Holtschneider,

As a student at Harvard Law School who has had the opportunity to hear both Professor Alan Dershowitz and Professor Norman Finkelstein speak on campus in the past three years -- though, unfortunately, never in the same room -- I must say that I was shocked and disappointed to note that you appear to have listened more to Dershowitz than to your very own students and faculty in overriding the recent departmental vote to grant Finkelstein (and another assistant professor who was sympathetic to Finkelstein) tenure.

I and many of my peers at Harvard Law School have been deeply unimpressed by Professor Dershowitz's one-man crusade against Finkelstein, and feel that his personal vendetta has done next to nothing to advance legal scholarship. That you would encourage such adolescent and irresponsible behavior by caving to Dershowitz's howling and threats, and thereby compromise the academic freedom of your own faculty, is a disservice to your university, a mark of shame upon your office, and a troubling sign of the state of freedom of speech and thought on campus in America today. I expect that the import of your recently utterly misguided decisions will follow you for the remainder of your own tenure, and beyond.

Sincerely,

Nathan Ela




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