The campus awoke to a big surprise Friday morning when they discovered that the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, actually produced an issue.

After pushing aside the unfamiliar magazine in their door boxes, students reached for what appeared to be a copy of Cambridge's only breakfast-table daily.

But they were disappointed to find a Lampoon-produced Crimson parody.

The issue detailed the exploits of the newspaper's president's chair in Iceland, where it's been whooping it up with Iceland Prime Minister David Oddsson as well as assorted Icelandic women. The Lampoon stated their demands for return of the chair in the article "Lampoon Makes Clear Terms for Chair Retrieval."

"It is now up to us, [The] Harvard Crimson, to decide whether we will sabotage our own newspaper for one day, or whether we will let [The] Crimson's president's chair remain in Iceland as a symbol of peace and non-aggression between the United States and the nation of Iceland," the Lampoon wrote of the dilemma now facing Crimson staff.

Outgoing Crimson President Joshua H. Simon '00 announced yesterday that The Crimson refuses to give into "terrorist" demands.

"The Crimson has never and will never negotiate," he said.

Simon revealed little about Crimson plans to retrieve the chair, but informed the media that his intelligence staff on ground in Iceland has been briefing him on the matter every 12 hours.