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...Editors of the CRIMSON: I would like to take this opportunity to express my sympathy to the members of the Lampoon. Perhaps this letter can serve as an unsolicited request for a certain amount of good advice which they seem to be sorely in need of. Any group which has disintegrated to the point where they must find their unity in demented acts of self-assertion is in a sorry state...
...that these noises had a single purpose-to annoy Professor Schlesinger and to disrupt his lecture. One student was sent out to quiet them; he remained missing. Another tried to cope with the problem and was slightly more successful. He returned to report that the disturbance was caused by Lampoon "fools." "Fools" is the word used by the Lampoon to designate those people who wish to join its group; their analysis this morning proved very penetrating. To continue with this narrative about two minutes later a young man attired in a pair of army fatigues appeared at the door prepared...
...sure the Lampoon does not wish its initiates to show up in such a bad light. It is obvious that they have just run out of creative ideas. Perhaps they might look in a boy scout handbook-many young groups have great fun at boy scout games. The other members of this University certainly ought to cooperate, to help these "fools" find some more satisfying means of relieving their frustration. It would seem that such talent could find a more truly humorous outlet; it really does not have to sink to the level to simply annoying professors. Jeffray Kramer...
Married seniors and Lampoon Fools also took part in the race pushing baby carriages. The Fools pram inexplicably caught fire, but they had pumps and hose lines ready to put out the fire and to spray the spectators. Later they were tossed into the lake...
About fifteen years ago the Ibis atop the Lampoon building took one of its sporadic off-season flgihts. It reappeared a few evenings later on a stage when Blackstone the Magician lifted a silk cloth. A cry of dismay was heard in the balcony as thirty humorists, lured to the theater by free tickets, scrambled toward the steps to retrieve the bird. Backstage at the Colonial Theatre last Saturday, Blackstone recalled the theft and chuckled "We should do it again...