Word: lampooning
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...should other organizations using the Harvard name--such as the Harvard Law Review or the Harvard Lampoon--start to register separately, problems could be created...
...magazine staff took a rare step and opposed the University's push to extend its rights over the names of campus organizations and decided simply to register the name "The Lampoon," the application for which is still pending...
...problem lay with the use of the word "Harvard"--the University essentially said it had such a strong claim to the Harvard name that even the Lampoon could not register it without permission...
According to Tyler E. Chapman '90, a Boston attorney and trustee of the Lampoon, Harvard offered "a very reasonable" counter-proposal: the Lampoon would forever cede its rights to both "The Harvard Lampoon" and "The Lampoon" to the University, in exchange for a pledge from the school never to charge the organization for the use of the name...
...really what we wanted to do," Chapman says. "We realized what we're really interested in is the name 'Lampoon...