Tom Paulin has indicated that he is "receptive" to Harvard English's renewal of its retracted invitation to him to deliver the annual Morris Gray Lecture. A staff editorial in the Harvard Crimson argues both sides of the issue: that the department's reversal "sets a disturbing precendent [sic] of allowing speakers who promulgate hate speech and religiously based violence to address this campus under the Harvard imprimatur," and, in an addendum labelled "Dissent: A Principled Reconsideration," that "the English departmentís decision to re-extend its initial invitation to controversial poet Tom Paulin is a positive step toward maintaining a free and open exchange of ideas at Harvard," noting that "the invitationís prior rescinding, under administrative and student pressure, only contributed to a climate of institutional hostility to a particular side in this political debate over Israelóa thoroughly destructive force to the health of an academic community." It's a good give and take.