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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In his own words …
[T]he key abstraction, settling off ripples of self-deception, is that term “sexual orientation.” The term is broad enough to encompass sex with animals, pedophilia, even necrophilia....{T]he notion of “sexual orientation” [is] quite unstable: Many people shift back and forth across a spectrum that may now include the bisexual, fetishistic, transvestic, zoophiliac (sex with animals).
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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 →