A Harvard sophomore was arrested last Tuesday after he broke into a building he thought was The Harvard Crimson, the student and Cambridge police said.
Responding to a burglar alarm at 12 Plympton Street around 3 a.m. Jan. 2, officers took into custody Vali D. Chandrasekaran'03, an editor of the Harvard Lampoon.
The Crimson, located at 14 Plympton Street, leases the space next door to a branch of the English Language Center, a private company.
In an interview, Chandrasekaran admitted to breaking into the building.
He said he acted in the context of the Lampoon's rivalry with The Crimson, which dates back to the Crimson presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, '04.
"It was us fucking around with each other like we always do," he said. "I wouldn't have been there were I not a member of the Lampoon," he said later.
Stephen C. Hely '02, the president of the Lampoon, said that the humor magazine has no official comment on the incident.
"We are treating it seriously, though we were just having fun," he said.
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