Word: lampooner
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...Monday night--just as I begin planning my march up the steps of the Castle and the improvised secret knock I'll use to gain entrance--when, finally, I locate a 'Poonster who's willing to discuss the organization. To my surprise, the upperclassman admits right away that the Lampoon was behind both the parodies and the Hasty Pudding prank. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, he explains, "I felt sorry for freshmen who were taken in, but maybe it made people think about institutions like [the Pudding]." He rejects my suggestion that the Lampoon has undergone some radical shift...
Sure, it's possible I'm just secretly thankful that the Lampoon skipped The Crimson this time around, instead publishing mock versions of the Advocate, Gazette, Independent and Peninsula...
...argue with the mock "Peninsula Woman Presidents of the United States Watch" or "The Peninsula Strom Thurmond Three Bullets Away From the Presidency Watch?" How can you argue with an item in the fake Gazette titled "Loker Commons to Add Customers"? Maybe the Lampoon, if it was responsible, went too far last week by sending dozens of first-years to the Hasty Pudding for a punch event at which they weren't welcome. The prank displayed a callousness and an unmitigated deviousness that cannot be condoned. It was also one of the funniest things to happen on campus...
...publication on its last legs, I decide to send feelers out far and wide. Soon I realize that it may be difficult to track down someone from the typically clamp-mouthed organization who will talk to an editor from The Crimson, the publication that has historically been the Lampoon's arch-rival...
...certain Plympton Street publication. I let his comment hang in the air for a long moment before moving on, and as the conversation comes to a close I decide that there's nothing to be gained by pressing him about the chair's where-abouts. After all, if the Lampoon continues to put increased time and effort into its publications--if it has decided to become a prolific humor-producing machine--it can only mean that Harvard's daily newspaper will have an easier time doing its furniture shopping in a certain Bow Street stronghold...