Word: lampooning
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Stone Cold Steve Austin made an appearance in Cambridge on Friday to grill burgers and throw back a couple of drinks at The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...Lampoon hosted the event with the former World Wrestling Entertainment star in order "to make amends and celebrate our renewed friendship" (according to invitations left in the House), which was likely in reference to the distribution of 9/11-themed "Lever Forget" t-shirts on Housing...
...Leverett HoCo visited freshmen with real housing letters in hand, the Lampoon did some express delivery of their own with fake Leverett housing letters. Some of the freshman recipients were not even assigned to the House...
...Lampoon's deception took a grossly insensitive turn with the worst part of the prank: the freshmen who were "placed" in Leverett were gifted with T-shirts featuring an image of the Leverett towers above the phrase "Lever Forget"—drawing an all-too-unsubtle parallel between the gray towers and the World Trade Center...
Although they fell victim to the Lampoon's trickery, Smith and her blockmates were eventually placed in Leverett anyway. But other pranked freshmen, like Taryn I. Kurcz '13, discovered later in the morning that they were not actually assigned to Leverett...