Please sign our petition
If you are an Amherst College student, alumnus or alumna, please sign a petition to the board of trustees asking the college to dissociate itself from both the homophobic substance and the intellectual dishonesty of Professor Hadley Arkes’s writings in non-academic publications, in which he regularly chooses to identify himself with the College. (Read more.)Documents about the petition
In chronological order:
- A man walks into a bar... (Nathan email -- June 5, 2010)
- Say ‘no’ to Hadley Arkes (Craige-Mersereau communications with Martin -- April 2013)
- Reject intellectual dishonesty (Greenberg communications with Martin -- April 2013)
- Arkes's defamatory statements are deeply offensive (Patterson testimonial -- June 2013)
- Amherst won't disavow hate speech? I won't contribute (Patterson email declining participation in annual fund -- June 2013)
- Amherst College, it's time to step up (Mersereau statement of September 2013)
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Recent Posts
- Protest: Martin misstates alumni request, blocks access
- Here’s why to sign our alumni petition about Arkes
- How Amherst College blocks dissenters
- Amherst president misstates alumni petition about Arkes
- Irony: College says its silence defends free speech
- Letter: Does Arkes support college’s diversity policy?
- Letter: How Arkes could destroy LGBT protections
- 106 more alumni push back against Arkes’s views
- Q&A with college president on anti-gay professor
- New commentary by Arkes, new criticism by alumni
Category Archives: Commentary
Amherst president misstates alumni petition about Arkes
This is a letter to the editor of Amherst Magazine from Ron Battocchi, ’70. It was rejected for publication on the grounds that it responds to statements by Amherst College President Biddy Martin that did not appear in the magazine. … Continue reading
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Tagged academic freedom, Amherst College, Ben Carson, Biddy Martin, Hadley Arkes, Homophobia, John Hopkins
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Irony: College says its silence defends free speech
This is a response from John Greenberg ’70 to President Biddy Martin’s blog post in which she rejected the call for Amherst College to disassociate itself from the anti-gay writings of Prof. Hadley Arkes. With All Due Respect, President Martin … Continue reading
Posted in Biddy Martin, Commentary
Tagged AAUP, academic freedom, Amherst College, Arkes, Biddy Martin, Carolyn Martin, Hadley Arkes, John Greenberg
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Letter: Does Arkes support college’s diversity policy?
As part of the campaign to have Amherst College disassociate itself from the anti-gay writings of Prof. Hadley Arkes, Warren Mersereau ’70 submitted this letter to the Amherst Student. What do you make of Professor Hadley Arkes aligning members of … Continue reading
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Tagged Amherst College, Catholic Thing, Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing, Warren Mersereau
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New commentary by Arkes, new criticism by alumni
The latest commentary by Prof. Hadley Arkes of Amherst College, published in The Catholic Thing, has provoked a new round of criticism from Amherst alumni who say that Arkes continues to use his affiliation with the college to help spread distorted … Continue reading
Shining light on dark words
Tito Craige ’70, commented on the writings of Prof. Hadley Arkes for The Amherst Student. Excerpts below: By TITO CRAIGE As an older alumnus, I guess I should be musing about the good old days at Amherst and making payments … Continue reading
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Amherst Against Homophobia 
Protest: Martin misstates alumni request, blocks access
In the following letter, six Amherst College alumni tell Cullen Murphy, chair of the college board of trustees, how college President Carolyn Martin has misstated their request for action regarding Prof. Hadley Arkes and has simultaneously endorsed “the free exchange … Continue reading →