Lampoon Begins Week of Pranks

Residents of Cambridge and Greater Boston are bracing themselves this week, as the Harvard Lampoon runs its newly elected editors through a gamut of pranks which traditionally disrupt lectures and meals and attract crowds along sidewalks.

Lampoon President Conan C. O'Brien '85 refused to say how many new editors were elected to the social club which occasionally publishes parodies.

But if this year is like previous ones, the so-called "fools" will elicit smatterings of laughter during the week-long initiation process. Editors tell fools the pranks are a prelude to a final election--which they reveal as a hoax at the end of the week.