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...Jerk denied funding? We asked a member of the Council for the Arts, the group responsible for approving the grants, to explain. He said that there are two basic reasons. First, there was "some question as to whether the proposal was innovative and fresh." Second, some members of the committee "felt that humor is not art, but entertainment...
...first claim--that Jerk magazine would not be an "innovative and fresh" addition to the Harvard community--is preposterous...
...everyone knows, there currently exists only one so-called humor magazine on campus, the Harvard Lampoon. Jerk cannot help but be a fresh face in a stagnant sea of political and arts publications that litter our doorsteps...
Every day, we come home from a long day of classes only to find a magazine with a picture of Mao or Europe on the cover. A fresh new publication like Jerk might add a little levity to Harvard's otherwise somber campus...
...second objection to Jerk is that humor does not qualify as art. Hogwash. Tell Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, two of history's best and most innovative humorists, that their works hold no artistic value...