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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Contents of appeal to Amherst College alumni
Letter to alumni: Please sign and share Amherst College Trustee Petition Supporting documents: 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 … Continue reading
Letter to alumni: Please sign and share
Dear fellow Amherst alum: The attached package of materials is hopefully self-explanatory. After considerable discussion on the Class of 1970 listserv, six of us corresponded with President Biddy Martin and, having first provided her a list of some 60 co-signers … Continue reading
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