Word: demonism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the setbacks against Brown, Harvard remains optimistic about its chances against the Bears in future years. After all, the second coming of Zimmerman has plenty of polo left, and plenty of games remaining to exorcise the Brown demon...
Like thousands of other Harvard students, I was eager to read the winter issue of Demon magazine. In the past I've had a laugh or two out of Demon's jabs at political figures, the Harvard College administration and the Harvard University Police Department. In the latest issue, however, one writer overstepped the line distinguishing light-hearted levity from the malicious and hurtful...
...tradition of Demon, the most recent issue attributed a number of novel pseudonyms to its staff. In this issue, one "Glazed Pork Loin" descended to a new low in humor writing. In his own attempt at "humor," Glazed Pork Loin satirized one of the Crimson Key Society's traditional welcome week activities, the showing of and commentary on the old Harvard favorite, "Love Story." This is his introduction...
...that I did not take this dialogue at face value. Glazed Pork Loin's intent was clearly to criticize the Crimson Key Society's own unusual brand of humor, but surely there were other ways to make the point more effectively. Yet he chose to disregard the sensitivities of Demon's readers for the sake of making a trivial point. There is a real danger that readers flipping through the latest issue of Demon who do not have the time to ponder the subtleties of the authors' convoluted sarcasm would have taken away little more than the new and dangerous...
...Demon is sadly one of few satirical journals on the Harvard campus, providing the most patent vindication of Adam Smith's thesis that the quality of goods diminishes proportionately with a decrease in competition. Such "humor" would cease to intrigue if higher quality goods were available in our humor market. A few more humor magazines and Demon would be compelled by the rationale of supply and demand to undertake a wholly new and revolutionary enterprise: to create humor that is at the same time clean, engaging, tasteful and intellectual, or, at the very least, inoffensive...