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Baris C. Ercal ’10 and Parker A. Lawrence ’12 were struck by the broken railing after it ricocheted off the ground. The students were sitting on the front steps of Claverly, watching a celebration outside the Harvard Lampoon...
Back in 1973, National Lampoon ran a satirical cover image of a very cute, very worried-looking puppy with a gun pointed at its head. The headline read "If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog" - motivation by emotional blackmail, taken to its absurdist extreme...
...newspaper that had been shut down by university administrators following an attack on mandatory chapel attendance. Originally published in newspaper format, the Advocate was Harvard’s sole publication until The Crimson was founded in 1873. Three years later, some members of the Advocate left to form the Lampoon, and by the 1880s, the publication was exclusively devoted to essays, fiction, and poetry written and submitted by undergraduates.Today, the Advocate, published quarterly, is composed of four content boards: poetry, fiction, features, and art. Their mission statement is simple—“The Harvard Advocate is concerned with...
...Though he completed his coursework, he was not an exceptional student nor was he a central player in the publication scene on campus, eschewing the traditional incubatory institutions for a would-be-writer, opting not to take part in John H. Updike ’54’s Lampoon, David L. Halberstam ’55’s Crimson, or Norman K. Mailer ’43’s Advocate. It was when he was eight years out, in 1999, after a stint as a critic at the Village Voice, that Whitehead began to make noise with...
...Though he completed his coursework, he was not an exceptional student nor was he a central player in the publication scene on campus, eschewing the traditional incubatory institutions for a would-be-writer, opting not to take part in John H. Updike ’54’s Lampoon, David L. Halberstam ’55’s Crimson, or Norman K. Mailer ’43’s Advocate. It was when he was eight years out, in 1999, after a stint as a critic at the Village Voice, that Whitehead began to make noise with...