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...Pynchon. (The organization claims that Tyrone Slothrop, a fictional Harvard graduate in Pynchon's Gravity Rainbow, was a Lampoon editor.) The Lampoon really, really wants secrecy to be the organization's hallmark. Only invited seniors, enterprising Crimson editors and the select few undergraduates who pass the Lampoon's rigorous comp have ever seen the castle's upstairs sanctum...
First Crimson Arts Comp meeting is Monday, Sept.25 at 8 p.m. in The Crimson. Arts is the bomb-diggety. Come check it out. My cutting-edge mom said ecstatically the other day, "I don't like the Backstreet Boys or 'NSync anymore. They're sooo old news. Now I like the Thong Song!"... The boo-hoo fest that is NBC Olympics coverage can only be handled a) on an empty stomach and b) when taped and fast forwarded strategically. Otherwise you have to sit through random cultural segments which have nothing to do with anything, choppy coverage, annoying commentators...
...Adam A. Sofen '01 is a history and literature concentrator in Pforzheimer House. He is a news executive who heads the comp, The Crimson's training program for new reporters...
...team recently wrapped up its season at home by hosting the Harvard Invitational, one of two major competitions that take place at Harvard each year. The team also hosts a Beginner's Comp in the fall, in which many of the novices make their competitive debuts...
...When I came [to Harvard], I thought I'd be a journalist, actually. I went to a Crimson comp meeting. I had been the editor of my high school paper. And then I realized that I wasn't cut out to be a journalist because I wasn't into objectivity at that point, and that I was much more compelled by playing even though I couldn't play very well...