In addition to "enjoying her grandchildren" and playing tennis, Liz spends her free time working as the financial secretary of the Boston Coalition of 100 Black Women and participating in the Black Women's Literary Guild.

Woodley says she has had to carve out her own niche in the business office because of the changing string of Crimson business executives, who are newly elected to their positions each year.

"Each year I have to get used to new people and their new way of doing things," she says.

But Woodley says what she minds the most is how much she misses the students when they leave.

"I had to pull myself together each time Commencement came along because I made such friends here," she says. "The saddest moment of being with The Crimson is seeing the kids leave."

The Early Bird

Byrne has had to endure many changes to The Crimson's printing process since he began operating its presses 17 years ago.

Through it all, Byrne says his role has always been to "make sure the paper looks good."

Byrne arrives at 5 a.m. each morning to help The Crimson's production managers put the paper on film before it can be printed each day.

Often the first person in the building, Brian has frequently bore the brunt of Lampoon pranks.

"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.

"I came in and almost every door was covered up to the top with cow manure," Byrne recalls.

On another occasion, he found "three huge pigs" in the building's front entrance. Crimson editors retaliated by dropping off a load of chickens at the Lampoon castle.

"[Lampoon members] came back as butchers with aprons and knives and pretended to be about to cut the chickens' heads off," Byrne says.

The Crimson-Lampoon rivalry has lessened in intensity, and Byrne he no longer encounters such pranks.