Word: lampooning
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...honest government, but we knew what the real plot was." And so in the 1938 campaign, embattled opponents of Plan E termed it the work of "Harvard communists," and the city council voted to symbolically "secede" from Harvard should the law pass. That idea appealed to the Harvard Lampoon, whose members dressed in storm trooper outfits and marched down Massachusetts Avenue toward the city Hall to demand that they too be made a separate state. Sutton records that Councilor Michael (Mickey the Dude) Sullivan was descending the steps as the Poonies arrived. He tried to stop the parade, and fell...
...report stems from a February 1977 incident when The Harvard Lampoon published an issue containing material which the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association called "racially offensive." In November of that year, Epps formed a 16-member committee of students, Faculty, and administrators to explore the patterns of interaction among white and non-white students, to judge Harvard's effects on students' racial perceptions and opinions, and to make recommendations aimed at improving race relations in the College...
These three incidents are just examples of the widespread racism in this university. No group is immune to institutional racism, from the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, to the Harvard Lampoon, to the finals clubs, ad infinitum. The only way to combat racism is to recognize it, then struggle to eliminate...
...when he was president of The Crimson, Maccoby and an accomplice engineered the theft of the famed Ibus, which sits atop the Lampoon Castle. Maccoby was, in turn, abducted by Lampoon editors. After a daring escape, Maccoby and his cohort flew to New York and presented the bird to the Russian delgation to the U.N. as "a sort of American bird of peace," on behalf of the Lampoon, requesting it be placed on the spire of the new Moscow University. The Lampoon president, John H. Updike '54, who was not amused, lodged an international protest and secured the bird from...
Chinese students should follow suit. Chinese are not "fair game" for racial jokes just because other racial groups have protested; racist humor is unacceptable on all fronts. The objection that all this is in good fun is as vapid here as it was in the case of the Lampoon. Where racism is present, nothing is ever in "good fun." A theatrical production should not stoop to such a low level just to elicit a nervous laugh or two. Elizabeth T. Partridge...