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David Heilbrener '79, an Adams House resident, said yesterday he and his roommate got angry when Lampoon students began screaming and breaking bottles in the street outside the residents window...
Harvard and Cambridge police converged on the Lampoon Castle early yesterday morning to break up the end of a loud dinner party after Harvard police received a complaint about the noise...
Mudge added that Harvard police often have to disperse Lampoon parties. "It's gotten to be a tradition down there," he said...
Allan J. Arffa '77, a Lampoon editor, said yesterday the Lampoon party for 30 to 40 Lampoon staff members did not differ from the Lampoon's usual weekly parties...
...catch on to the intended point of most of these shorts: to poke a little absurdist fun at sexual taboos. But my point was that even as satire some of these films, although harmless, do get pretty offensive [in the same way I think spoofs in the National Lampoon, and films like Network go too far]. And it was precisely because I assumed that the need to debunk sexist attitudes, although unfortunately not "universally understood," is at least recognized by many filmgoers in Cambridge, that I thought I should poke some fun of my own at these shorts' sometimes unsympathetic...