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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How Amherst College blocks dissenters
In the following email correspondence, Rob Yamins ’72 protests the multiple ways that Amherst College blocks alumni attempts to communicate with the college community and other alumni about their petition asking the college to distance itself from the homophobic views … Continue reading
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Tagged Amherst College, Amherst magazine, Biddy Martin, Cullen Murphy, Hadley Arkes
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106 more alumni push back against Arkes’s views
The following letter was sent on Oct. 28, 2013, to Cullen Murphy, chairman of the Amherst College Board of Trustees, and to Biddy Martin, the college president. Dear Cullen Murphy: When we wrote you on September 28, we promised to … Continue reading
Posted in Biddy Martin, Petition to trustees
Tagged Biddy Martin, Cullen Murphy, Hadley Arkes, John Greenberg
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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 →