Kevin Hudak '07 will resign from his post as president of The Dartmouth Review, he announced at a staff meeting Monday.
His decision comes as a result of the cover on the newspaper's Nov. 28 issue, according to sources involved with The Review.
The cover, which triggered a rally outside Dartmouth Hall that attracted national news coverage, depicts a Native American holding a knife and scalp under the headline "The Natives are Getting Restless!"
Jeffrey Hart, the former chairman of The Review's Board of Directors and a retired Dartmouth professor, said he was initially surprised that Hudak resigned, but "retrospectively," was not.
"He felt that his opinion was not being really listened to," Hart said. "I think I would have done that myself.
"I don't find any great enthusiasm for returning to the Indian symbol or agitating about it. I mean it's gone, so who wants an argument about it?" he said.
"I didn't detect any great enthusiasm for the Indian symbol on their part or on much of the staff, so the offending cover was basically the job of the editor-in-chief."
Editor-in-chief Dan Linsalata '07 declined requests for an interview, but issued a statement praising Hudak for his contributions to The Review.
"While I am certainly sad to see him leave, I speak for many editors and staffers, past and present, in saying that we are greatly appreciative of his years of service to the paper," Linsalata wrote.
On Dec. 6, The Review posted a letter on its website that called printing the cover "a mistake," and noted that some staff members voiced reservations about it before going to print.
Managing editor Nicholas Desai '08 and associate editor Emily Ghods-Esfahani '09 -- who were also upset by the decision to publish the cover but will continue to work at The Review -- authored the statement.
"They felt that it was a needless controversy to get into and distracted attention from the serious journalism they wanted to do," Hart said of Hudak, Ghods-Esfahani and Desai.
Hudak declined requests for an interview and Ghods-Esfahani could not be reached by The Dartmouth.
Desai refused to be interviewed, but said many staffers "felt put off by the cover."
Hudak's resignation will become official once he submits a letter to The Review's Board of Directors.
