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The Cornell Lunatic
KategorienHumor magazine
GründerJoey Green
Gegründet1978, Cornell University
First issueApril 1, 1978
Based inIthaca, New York, US
SpracheEnglisch
Websitewww.cornelllunatic.com

The Cornell Lunatic is the college humor magazine at Cornell University founded on April 1, 1978, by author Joey Green. During Green's tenure as editor, the Lunatic was a 72-page glossy magazine of satire and parody published once a semester. The Lunatic staff was responsible for many pranks on campus, including a parody of the 1979 Cornell–Yale Homecoming Football Game program. Today, the Lunatic continues to publish once a semester, and the magazine is distributed on campus for free.

Famous alumni from the magazine include science fiction novelist Adam-Troy Castro, CSI producer Naren Shankar, Harvard economics professor Sendhil Mullainathan, Los Angeles Times Business editor Jeff Bercovici[1], author Noah Goldstein[2], author Joyce Hendley[3], author Alan Corcoran[4], Stereogum founder Scott Lapatine, ornithologist Jill Holtzman Leichter[5] (editor of the All About Birds Regional Field Guides), author Lawrence Carrel[6], journalist Farhad Manjoo, Virgin Music Group co-CEO J.T. Myers, author and curator Glenn Adamson, technology writer and author Adam C. Engst, White House correspondent Jordan Fabian[7], author Marie Gottschalk, filmmaker Jamie Greenberg[8], author Mikki Halpin, author Amanda Ann Klein[9], New York Times and New Yorker crossword puzzle author Robyn Lipsky Weintraub[10], children's book author Adam Osterweil[11], children's poet Robert Pottle[12], and Emmy Award-winning visual effects artist Marco Recuay[13].

On March 29, 2008, more than fifty Lunatic alumni and guests gathered at the Cornell Club in Manhattan to celebrate the Lunatic's 30th anniversary and the publication of the book Lunacy: The Best of the Cornell Lunatic.

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the Lunatic continued to produce digital issues, returning to print in Fall 2021. They hosted actor Ronny Chieng for a virtual event in April 2021. Later that year, the club established a second formal mascot, "Honse," a horse with an unspecified illness. As of 2022, the club boasts nearly 30 members and is one of the strongest comedy groups on Cornell's campus.

The Cornell Lunatic's official mascot, Honse.
Honse, rendered in chalk, in a 2022 oeuvre.

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  13. ^ "Marco Recuay". Television Academy. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
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