A PILE OF PAPER.(The Talk of the Town)(parody)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 19-APR-04

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One evening in February, two Stanford University seniors, Steve Yelderman and Ian Spiro, were presiding over the weekly staff meeting of The Stanford Chaparral, the college's humor magazine. Spiro, a thin and gangly computerscience major with a mop of brown hair, thick sideburns, and metal-frame glasses, was about to unveil his radical idea for the annual Chaparral parody issue.

Typical Chaparral issues are glossy compendiums of cartoons, lists, dialogues, photo journals, and short articles, but once each year, in the grand collegiate-humorist tradition, the editors produce a parody of a national magazine. In its hundred-and-five-year history, The Chaparral has targeted such...

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