An Adams House resident tutor has written a petition, now supported by nearly 80 House residents urging the City of Cambridge and the Harvard administration to do "whatever it takes" to end disturbances coming from the Lampoon castle.

"I was awakened by screams at 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday," Scott F. Kocher said. "It seems a group of Lampoon members thought it would be funny to wake us up by screaming 'fire' and banging on windows. I live on the courtyard side of the building, so they had to work pretty hard to wake me up."

That is when Kocher decided to take matters into his own hands.

Kocher sent an e-mail over the Adams House "schmooze" list urging students to write letters complaining about the noise level or any other problems they have had with the Lampoon.

Kocher has also received a number of suggestions for resolving the conflict, including asking the College administration to revoke the Lampoon's student organization status, and making the Lampoon give a large donation to a charity each time they disturb Adams residents.

Kocher also wrote a petition saying that those who signed it had "endured chronic problems with disorderliness and late-night noise from the Harvard Lampoon."

Since then the issue has become a hot topic on the Adams House e-mail list.

Some Adams' residents have complained about a joke Kocher made in an email shortly after being woken up last Wednesday which read "(useless bastards) + Lampoon - (useless bastards) = (useless bastards)."