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Four years later, gender relations exploded in a Commencement-week confrontation between Crimson President Ira E. Stoll '94 and several female editors who were attempting to carry the president's chair from its place in the Sanctum into the women's bathroom as part of a prank...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: ABOUT/FACE | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

According to the editors involved, an enraged Stoll saw the prank as the culmination of ongoing tension between himself and the female editors. According to The Crimson's official account, he used a "hurtful" obscenity specifically directed at women in a violent exchange and was later formally censured by the staff...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: ABOUT/FACE | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

...When I was first at The Crimson, [Crimson editors] tried to steal the Ibis," he says, referring to the brass mascot that formerly adorned the weather vane of the Lampoon castle on Mt. Auburn Street Shortly after this prank, the 'Poon retaliated...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Full-Time Employees Give 14 Plympton a Sense of Continuity, History | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

...friends created a Web site with a circle of links as a prank. Their goal was to be listed on a so-called "communist page" for having received a very large number of hits...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Darst, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Web Site of Recordings Draws Copyright Concerns | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...favorite prank involves Robert Burns Woodward, a former organic chemistry professor, who loved everything blue...

Author: By Tara L. Colon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prankster, Chemist Herschbach Enjoys Post-Nobel Life | 11/13/1997 | See Source »

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