"This was the '60s, of course, so we were doing a lot of drugs," he told The Crimson in February. "There was a castle. I used to eat all of my meals in Adams House."

The Lampoon is legendary for its pranks, and O'Brien's administration was no different--if he and his cohorts are to be believed.

Flender says he remembers an incident in which O'Brien successfully drained the Charles River using "a system of funnels."

"We killed the Dean of Students [Archie C. Epps III] once," O'Brien claimed in February.

According to Jean, when Burt Ward--who played Robin on TV's "Batman"--came to visit Harvard, Lampoon members dressed up as the Penguin and his crew and stole Ward's Robin suit.

This theft, which Jean says "actually happened," was successful--though O'Brien later returned the suit.

Richard J. Appel '85 remembers when O'Brien and friends interrupted a Core physics lecture by performing a "Particles-Quarks Ballet."

"I don't know how you dress up like a quark," admits Appel.