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Napoleon Chagnon's Waterloo: Anthropology on Trial
by Andrew Grossman
Journalist Patrick Tierney's Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon is an account of how "self-serving anthropologists and obsessed scientists placed one of the Amazon basin's oldest tribes on the cusp of extinction," according to its publisher's blurb. It is an exposé: "Patrick Tierney describes how the Yanomami's internecine warfare was triggered by repeated visits of leading anthropologists...as well as by the Atomic Energy Commission, which wished to use Yanomami blood relations in studies in the mid-1960s." Tierney also alleges that Neel and one of his protégés, Napoleon Chagnon (pictured on cover), spread measles among the Yanomami to prove their perverse eugenic theories. It is a revolutionary analysis: "This is an epic, compelling work sure to shake the very foundations of American anthropology." But is it true? In early September, Terry Turner and Leslie Sponsel, professors at Cornell University and the University of Hawaii warned of an "impending scandal" and "corruption...unparalleled in the history of Anthropology."

Dartmouth's Shameful Censorship
by Stephen Farrow
During the 1937-38 school year, Walter B. Humphries, class of 1914, decided to create a painting to immortalize Dartmouth's beloved song "Eleazar Wheelock." He caricatured the song and painted it for the walls of Hovey's Grill, the establishment on the first floor of Thayer Dining Hall named for the poet. Humphries' murals adorned the walls of the Grill until 1979 when, with John Kemeny as president, the College decided that the paintings were too offensive. The murals were boarded up, and Hovey's Grill was closed off and used only for storage. The paintings remain censored today; they are very rarely uncovered for private viewings. This fall, Hovey's Grill reopened its doors to students as "Hovey's Lounge," and it includes a pool table, foosball, and other games. Yet, instead of the bright murals, the walls are covered by plain, gray, canvas-covered boards. Students should tear them down.

Editorial: To Youth and Liberty
Letters to the Editor

DARTMOUTH AND THE ACADEMY:
Thanks for Sharing by J. Lawrence Scholer
The Moose's National Rampage by Benjamin Flickinger
The Battle of the Books by Stephen Balch

BOOKS IN REVIEW:
Structures of Deceit by Christopher Bowen
You Can't Say That... by Stella Baer

DARTMOUTH SPORTS:
Real College Football by Jeffrey Hart
When It Comes Time to Fight... by Adam Tanney

by Gordon Haff

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win great triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” —Theodore Roosevelt