Satire

Scope and Contents Below the Belt dates from ca. 1988-1995. It is a satirical publication laid out as a newsletter. Below the Belt often incorporates facetious academic articles (i.e., featuring articles titled "Popular Misconceptions of the 20th Century"), satirizes the Oberlin College administration's politics ("Covert Operations: College Considers Inviting CIA to Recruit"), and spoofs other Oberlin student publications...

Scope and Contents This file contains a single-edition satire publication, published in 1947 by a team of six self-identified Sams. Bloman contains a combination of short poems, absurdist visual art sharing space with written pieces, short stories, vignettes, and peer reviews (ex.: "Interesting Boys I've Known"). Through Bloman, the six Sams satirize the romanticized language and cultivated angst in creative poetry and prose journals...

Scope and Contents A single-edition satire publication published in 1984. Blot #1 satirizes the turgidity of academic mathematic and philosophical journals. Blot #1 describes itself as an "independent forum for material which shows the free play of ideas in all areas...[of] literature, artwork, sciences, music, anthropology." Beginning with a "Title Apropos Subject at Hand," the publication favors a letter-to-the-editor style...

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The Bystander is a humor/satire journal written and published by an editorial team of six (known affectionately as "Bystanders") in 1929. The bound journal includes humorous playwriting, mock sermons, cartoons, and joking prose by Oberlin College students and faculty. Common themes are Oberlin student-faculty tensions and the drama of quotidian student life.