University buildings named on shaky ground

摘要

Before his death last year, the legendary archaeologist Frank Hibben made a $3.5-million donation to the University of New Mexico to fund an extension to its renowned anthropology museum. But as the Hibben Center for Archeologi-cal Research nears completion in Albuquerque, it is confronting a very different aspect of Hibben's legacy: his apparent faking of research over many decades. Some faculty members at the university are using Hibben's transgressions ― which have been widely publicized for years ― to teach students how hot to conduct themselves. Researchers in the field even refer to data contortions as 'hibbenisms'. "He thought it didn't hurt to make the evidence a little better," says Vance Haynes, an archaeol- ogist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.