CORRECTION APPENDED (SEE BOTTOM)Awaiting invitation, Alan Dershowitz, a law professor from Harvard, believes he may yet speak at Brandeis, after all. He may even get the last word, he thinks.

The outspoken critic of President Jimmy Carter's book said in a phone interview Monday he will be at Brandeis the day Carter speaks on campus because students want him to be there.

"I also believe there are students and faculty who want to keep me off campus, and are trying to censor my speech," Dershowitz added. "They will not succeed."

Dershowitz, who was briefly considered as a debate partner during a potential visit by Carter, would not identify the students, student groups or faculty members on either side of the debate.

But Jonathan Krisch, a features editor for The Hoot, a student newspaper, sent an invitation to Dershowitz on behalf of his paper, but senior editors later insisted that the invitation was not sent on behalf of the paper, and that they plan to rescind it.

Dershowitz said in a phone interview Monday night that Kevin Montgomery '07, a member of The Hoot's editorial board who is also on the ad hoc committee that invited Carter to campus, had told him in a phone conversation: "The Hoot arranged for Carter's visit, and now The Hoot is inviting you. We're arranging the entire event on campus."

Montgomery denied making such a claim, and the newspaper is not affiliated with Carter's visit.

Due to an editing error, this article stated that the Hoot's editorial board had already revoked an invitation sent by one of their members to Alan Dershowitz to speak on campus. They have not done so yet, but said they will in the near future.