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
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- 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
Tag Archives: Carolyn Martin
Here’s why to sign our alumni petition about Arkes
Students and alumni of Amherst College are invited to sign a petition to the Board of Trustees, urging them to dissociate the college from Professor Hadley Arkes’s divisive and destructive views. Here’s the reason for that appeal: Homophobia based at … Continue reading
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Tagged Amherst College, Antonin Scalia, Carolyn Martin, Hadley Arkes, Petition Site
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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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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
Posted in Arkes publications, Biddy Martin, Petition to trustees
Tagged Amherst College, Biddy Martin, Carolyn Martin, Hadley Arkes
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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 →