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Steven V. Mazie '93 and Philip M. Rubin '93, founders of Jerk magazine, beat a metal keg while chanting, "Jerk magazine, Neil Rudenstine." For the sake of the rhyme, they mispronounced the name of Harvard's 26th president...
After about 15 minutes, Widener Security Supervisor David W. Muir asked Rubin and Mazie to cease their banging. The noisemaking stopped, but Muir returned shortly afterward to insist that the two remove their Jerk banner, prominently displayed on one of the library's large front ledges...
Mazie said he and Rubin, along with Daniel E. Kosowski '93, have founded Jerk in order to combat "a marked dearth of humor on the Harvard Campus...
...Jerk's founders plastered the yard with comp posters, which sported slogans such as "10 Reasons to Jerk," "Ever killed a guy? We don't care," and "Feeling lonely? We'll be your friend...
...Many Jerk comp posters were placed over those of the Harvard Lampoon, previously the sole campus organization to publish a so-called humor magazine...