Word: lampooner
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Often the first person in the building, Brian has frequently bore the brunt of Lampoon pranks...
...When I was first at The Crimson, [Crimson editors] tried to steal the Ibis," he says, referring to the brass mascot that formerly adorned the weather vane of the Lampoon castle on Mt. Auburn Street Shortly after this prank, the 'Poon retaliated...
...another occasion, he found "three huge pigs" in the building's front entrance. Crimson editors retaliated by dropping off a load of chickens at the Lampoon castle...
...Lampoon members] came back as butchers with aprons and knives and pretended to be about to cut the chickens' heads off," Byrne says...
Indeed, if you were an alumnus/ae visiting Harvard two weeks ago and you picked up The Crimson, you would have thought you were looking at the Lampoon spoof issue. After all, Harvard students could not possibly have held candle-light vigils on the steps of Memorial Church in 1997 over grapes! Watching the grape hysteria, I couldn't help but think "what a falling-off was there." Were Harvard's "activists" really reduced to this? More to the point, were they really so unwilling to acknowledge good news...