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...cancellation of the “Debauchery” dance has ushered in a somber tone on campus. Male students have taken to lifting cars to release their pent-up tension. Contrary to previous complaints, students are now flocking to Eliot House for their daily cold shower. The Lampoon is so distraught, they have been unable to laugh at even their own pathetic excuses for jokes. Academic performance has taken a nose-dive as well; not one Computer Science 121: “Introduction to Formal Systems and Computation” problem set made deadline this week...
There’s nothing wrong with Harvard students associating t o have a good time. (The Pudding, at least, is also planning to hold an annual charity event.) Student groups aren’t required to do anything productive; otherwise, the Arnold Cultural Society and the Lampoon would have been disbanded long ago. And there are many reasons why a social group might want College recognition—to poster on kiosks, to hand out fliers, to have a table at the Activities Fair—none of which imply endorsement by the College of the group?...
It’s not all work and no play, however. David is on Harvard’s varsity sailing team, participates in the Mission Hill tutoring program, and is comping the Lampoon. On the academic side, he hopes to combine government and economics concentrations and graduate with honors in 2004 by using his advanced standing status...
Unlike some so-called humor publications—the Lampoon, a Sorrento Square semi-secret social organization which used to occasionally publish a magazine, definitely springs to mind—the Onion is readily accessible to anyone and everyone living in America today...
...schmooze,” a series of meals and coffees with assorted Crimson higher-ups. The final week consists of interviews in front of a semi-circle firing squad of outgoing execs asking a series of belligerent questions. Students hoping for a spot on the Lampoon undergo a similarly harrowing process. The idea that becoming assistant editor of a college newspaper or joining the business board of a humor magazine demands such a stressful process is ludicrous. But kids have such an inflated sense of themselves, their lofty positions over their peers, that they indulge in needless abuse. Compers...