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Updike also served an eventful term as President of The Harvard Lampoon in 1953—kidnapping the president of The Harvard Crimson and orchestrating a close save of The Lampoon??s famed ibis statue. A noted perfectionist, he graduated summa cum laude the following year with a degree in English before going on to a fellowship at Oxford and a job at The New Yorker...
...that pit The Crimson and The Lampoon against one another. As Maccoby was walking back to Lowell House for lunch, Updike and three co-conspirators from kidnapped him, an act of retaliation for The Crimson’s earlier theft of the iconic golden ibis figure from atop The Lampoon??s building...
Updike, who was producing much of The Lampoon??s content while maintaining an exemplary academic record—he was one of only eight in his class to be inducted to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior—had little free time to devote to politics or parties, according to former Lampoon writer Eric B. Wentworth ’54, who lived in Lowell House with Updike...
...into the television and singing “That party last night was awfully crazy / I wish we taped it”—what a relief he did! The party he spends the next four minutes rapping about is a modern day version of National Lampoon??s Delta House, complete with mattresses falling from second floor windows, a strip poker game, and even a grandma shooting a ball out of her mouth to score a winning shot in beer pong. The camera work makes it feel as if I really am watching a video a frat...
...Hijinks aside, Updike, who was producing much of The Lampoon??s content while maintaining an exemplary academic record—he was one of only eight in his class to be inducted to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior—was not at leisure to have a highly active social life...