Word: lampooner
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...Crimson's new editors to spearhead the effort to untie this knot and move the Crimson into the diverse 90s. In my four years here, I have heard too many people complain about the Crimson as a white newspaper. While we expect other publications--the Lampoon, Peninsula, the Advocate, etc. to be all-white institutions, I hope we hold higher expectations for the Crimson since, after all, it is the one student publication which can set an example for all of the other publications here and at other colleges...
...moment, however, there are the protests. Over the past three weeks, the demonstrators seemed to be simultaneously flinging a gauntlet in the face of a hated regime and giddily indulging in a long-overdue chance to lampoon it. They banged spoons on plates to emphasize the depth of Serbia's economic malaise. They marched in front of the state-run TV network holding their noses "because the lies stink so much." They sprayed parliament with detergent (to symbolize the need to clean up corruption). Even as the winter weather turned from surly to mean, the crowd's numbers--and boldness...
Both the Harvard Lampoon and the A.D. final club had late-night parties that lasted until early yesterday morning, according to a Harvard University Police officer...
...media gadfly. He mentioned, however, the difficulty of finding "people with politics" to staff the show. "It's just a pitiful state of satire in this country," he said, complaining of the domination of "junior high school, boy's locker room, dumb humor" naming as an example the Harvard Lampoon. He then ticked off his personal list of requirements for a staff member: satire experience, but also chutzpah, political convictions (his, probably), and a sense of humor. "I'm serious. If you have these things, we're looking for you," he said, seriously, and added that his address was listed...
...what about the Lampoon, which last year published a full spoof of the Indy; is that not dishonesty? Why wasn't the entire organization taken to the Ad Board? Was it because they had a certain tradition or tenure with the community? It can't be because the 'Poon is exceptionally funny. Additionally, if distaste is legitimate grounds for probation, why not expel the entire staff of the Demon, whose scatological and sexual humor must irk at least the most prudish amongst us; surely they would find it "socially unacceptable...