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...following is an opinion on the recent Lampoon-HRBSA "racist humor" controversy: although written by a senior member of the Lampoon, it does not necessarily represent the opinion of the present Editorial Board of that organization, and may not represent the opinion of the author either...
...Park St. Under (a game young hooligans call "Shredding the Elephant"). The attempt to institutionalize anarchy deprives anarchy of its essence, and like all large animals, the institution has a tendency to evolve into a grey amblypod with a withered proboscis: prodded by clowns and stampeded by mice. The Lampoon has never been able to decide whether it is the buffoon riding the elephant or the elephant being ridden by the fool. (The Crimson, of course, is just an ungulate of a different color.) Anarchy in the service of institutionalized diversion is ultimately a conservative phenomenon, resembling the Republican mascot...
...Lampoon team was upset over the loss. "Not only are they a better softball team, but they're also a lot funnier than us," quipped one Lampoonie...
...James Madison '78, I think, who said that "we should take alarm at the first experiment with out liberties." Dean Archie Epps, as the College Administration's heavy hand, has lately been experimenting with considerable heat; and the editors of the "Lampoon" have apparently--and disappointingly--done a rather fast wilt in that atmosphere. As to the chill the Epps decision has cast on their collective sense of humor, that remains to be seen. The entire affair, as a matter of fact, has been characterized by resolute humorlessness on all sides. The Sullen Seventies must truly be upon...
...fruitless, however, a scenario of communication rather than any authentic engagement on the issues, to talk about who can say what as if it weren't ultimately a question of Power--of whether my guys can make your guys do what I want. The confrontation between HRBSA and the "Lampoon" is not only, is hardly at all, an abstract contention over Constitutional Prerogatives...