Word: poons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidate for the 'Poon, as part of the Fool's Week initiation, stationed himself in each of the three rooms and three more were placed on the balconies...
...There's something for every night this week," one candidate said. After writing and business competitions, the Lampoon's candidates are also put through a series of ordeals. Yesterday morning the six did calisthenics outside the 'Poon building, and Sunday night they enacted skits for the members...
...executive board will not take office until February, even if they approved going coed, the 'Poon could not go coed until another board approves it in February...
...first time, the Lampoon is permitting women to begin the comp. The undergraduate members of the 'Poon and the three-man alumni Board of Trustees must approve a change in the Lampoon's constitution before women can be elected...
...usual, the parodies of other publications are the strongest pieces. The best one is that of the CRIMSON's own Confi Guide. Unfortunately, this one was cribbed almost word-for-word (and sketch-for-sketch) from a Poon of several years ago. But the University Gazette takeoff is marvelous; it captures that publication's "optimistic and resolute" hear-no-evil-see-no-evil-speak-no-evil tone as the world collapses around it. An imaginative Harvard Register parody attempts to portray the Dean of Freshmen as an old-fashioned aristocrat. Their Courses of Instruction is weak, not even as funny...