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
Tag Archives: Hadley Arkes
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
Posted in Petition to trustees
Tagged Amherst College, Antonin Scalia, Carolyn Martin, Hadley Arkes, Petition Site
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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
Posted in Biddy Martin, Petition to trustees
Tagged Amherst College, Amherst magazine, Biddy Martin, Cullen Murphy, Hadley Arkes
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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
Posted in Biddy Martin, Commentary, Petition to trustees
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
Posted in Commentary
Tagged Amherst College, Catholic Thing, Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing, Warren Mersereau
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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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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
Posted in Arkes publications, Biddy Martin
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
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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 →