CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Harvard Lampoon at America's oldest university Tuesday parodied USA Today, one of the country's newest newspapers.
Students at the Lampoon, which hit the streets across the nation Tuesday, satirized USA Today in all of the newspaper's full-color glory.
Featured were jazzy graphics and a joke weather map showing a glacier creeping over the United States.
'What we told (USA Today) was that to be parodied by the Lampoon will make them an American institution,' said production editor Steven Tompkins.
At a cocktail party kicking off the sales of the publication, Lampoon members made USA Today publisher Allen Neuharth an honorary member of their organization.
Other publications the Lampoon has targeted include Time, Newsweek, Playboy and Life Magazine.
The spoof publication's front page featured a tongue-in-cheek lead story telling of royal divorce proceedings between Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
It also featured a story depicting the United States retaliating against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi by ordering 250,000 anchovy pizzas delivered to his home.
Advance copies, at a cost of $2.50 an issue, went on sale Monday in Harvard Square, with 750,000 copies due on the stands nationwide Tuesday.
To enhance authenticity, the publication hired Gannett Newspapers, the company that publishes the Arlington, Va.-based USA Today, to produce the replica.
