Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absorbed in any controversial battle over any issue, the Harvard Lampoon made a "joke" about Africa and African people. In the Lampoon's issue, "On Civilized Man," located inside the front and back cover there was a strip entitled "My Summer in Africa" that looked very much like the cartoon images that were being portrayed about Africa in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries by groups who wished to use such propaganda to legitimize the colonization, enslavement, and general inhumane treatment of these very some people. Africa and African cultures have been under attack ever since slavery made it essential...
...horrible wounds that it has left us with. Although it may seem insufficient and even unrealistic, the fact is the Harvard Lampoon owes us some form of retribution, or at least some type of apology. And more importantly, it is not just the Black students who unfortunately saw that cartoon to whom the Lampoon must apologize to, for really the Lampoon owes an apology to all the Black people whose past has been victimized by 400 years of a truly savage custom known as slavery, and to all the Black people living right now in a truly savage country known...
...athletic choreography of splits, handstands, spins, acrobatic turns and assorted outrageous maneuvers. Breaking has already attracted mainstream attention, but uptown it is being overtaken by newer dances, like the Webboe and the Smurf, in which the dancers move with the goofy, ironic precision of the Saturday-morning TV cartoon trolls...
Taking a stand on issues opens The Crimson to charges of being self-righteous and self-important. Taking a stand on a cartoon strip prompted outright abuse. But the fact of the matter is that most of us are simply trying to learn some skills, publish six papers and a magazine every week, and enjoy ourselves at the same time. In that, we are no different than the campus' athletes, musicians, actors, politicians and community service volunteers. Obviously, we want everyone to read The Crimson and we value constructive criticism. But we don't force anyone to buy the paper...
...which Stanley Fish and Wayne C. Booth debate with considerably subtletythe question of how one decided whether a humorist is being ironic or merely offensive-as exemplified in Randy Newman's famous line. "Short people got no reason to live." Then you can search for a totally inoffensive "cartoon replacement" for Bloom County and Doonesbury in good conscience. Let's see-is Nancy still being published? Alan C. Elms Visiting Scholar, Psychology & Social Relations