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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harbus News, the weekly student newspaper at the Business School, got wind of the rumors and was trying to decide whether or not to include a story about the pool in its weekly campus gossip section...
Nelson says she now edits the "Gang of Nine"--the name of the paper's professor-rankling humor section--more carefully than it has ever been. "Things border on being funny and mean. And [professors are] sensitive, it can make certain people, certain professors angry," Nelson says. "So if I see something that is offensive I don't hesitate to do something about it, to err on the side of caution...
Nonetheless, Nelson says faculty "usually don't find the humor section very funny...
Some have vowed never to read the humor section, which regularly critiques professors' performances...
...They love it when we print the humor columns in a separate second section because then they can just throw it away," Nelson says...