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Both Osherow and Borowitz are involved in the Harvard Premier Society and the Harvard Lampoon, and Borowitz is president of the Radcliffe Grant in Aid in which capacity he chose his own script, "Gars and Goils" and himself as director for this fall's production, Barclay alleged...
...while most students and faculty are quick to disavow terrorism, they also charge that the government is overreacting-particularly against students-in an atmosphere of hysteria. "Oh God!" cried one Berlin student after learning of the Schleyer kidnaping. "One step closer to a fascist state." When a lampoon appeared at Gottingen University with a "non-obit" for Schleyer, tastelessly referring to his limited options of a "shabby life" or a "shabby death," police staged a three-hour search of the student-government building, its printing offices and two apartments. They seized 33 copies of the pamphlet, and the university rector...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association (HRBSA) charged the Lampoon this spring with featuring "tasteless" characterizations of blacks in recent issues, including a recent cover picture of a black man shining the shoes of the statue of John Harvard in the Yard. The Lampoon editors argued that its use of stereotypes was meant to poke fun at the characterizations rather than to lend credence to them, but HRBSA was not satisfied with the explanation and took the issue to Archie C. Epps III, dean of students...
...most recent issue of the Lampoon parodied technology...
Members of the Lampoon's executive board could not be reached to comment last night on the car's purchase. However, one member of the Lampoon staff, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday he does not think the Eldorado's new owner has "all his screws in the right place...