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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- Irony: College says its silence defends free speech
- Letter: Does Arkes support college’s diversity policy?
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- Q&A with college president on anti-gay professor
- New commentary by Arkes, new criticism by alumni
Category Archives: Arkes publications
Q&A with college president on anti-gay professor
In an question-and-answer session on Oct. 19, Amherst College alumnus Rob Yamins ’72 challenged President Biddy Martin’s position on the anti-gay writings of Prof. Hadley Arkes. Yamins noted that several alumni have asked for a public statement from the college … Continue reading
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Tagged Amherst College, Biddy Martin, Hadley Arkes
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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
Petition to the Amherst College board of trustees
“We request that the Trustees, acting for Amherst College, explicitly dissociate the institution itself from Professor Hadley Arkes’s divisive and destructive views and his intellectual dishonesty. Further, we request that Professor Arkes be asked either to refrain from citing his association … Continue reading
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Tagged Amherst College, Biddy Martin, Carolyn Martin, Hadley Arkes
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Amherst Against Homophobia 
Letter: How Arkes could destroy LGBT protections
This letter from alumnus Eric Patterson ’70 in response to President Biddy Martin’s blog post of Oct. 1 was published in the Amherst Student on Oct. 30: Several aspects of the continuing discussion of Prof. Hadley Arkes’s published contentions about … Continue reading →