Word: lampoon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most chagrined to read in last Friday's Crimson your report that the Harvard Lampoon is "the University's wealthiest undergraduate organization" with "a net worth of $1.6 million." Harvard Radio Broadcasting Co., Inc., owned by undergraduates, is the sole owner of WHRB-FM. WHRB-FM's broadcast license is valued between $5 million and $10 million in the Boston market, making WHRB wealthier than the Lampoon. Marc D. Peters WHRB-FM Station Manager
...widely acceptable to denigrate rural Americans? The liberal Perspective, which would never apply derogatory labels to ethnic minorities or gays, thought nothing of calling rural Southerners "naive rednecks." It hasn't been that long since the Harvard Lampoon printed a public apology for being racially insensitive, but it has yet to apologize for a cover that depicted lazy, dirty Appalachians under the caption "Inbred and Brain Dead...
...decided against giving the Lampoon this advice, however. For if members stopped producing their parodies and throwing their parties, they might feel compelled to (tell their agent to) produce more normal Lampoon issues with normal Lampoon jokes...
...another, who cares what the high-horsed Lampoon moralizers think? Despite all the press releases the Lampoon sent out, how many people said, "Wait a minute. I realize I am greedy. Now I am going to change my life...
...Lampoon is a rich organization that throws lavish parties. We all know this. The Crimson should not need to make an editorial policy of mocking the Lampoon. It is childish and unprofessional. And it is a waste of our space and your time...