{"id":725,"date":"2017-08-17T17:58:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T21:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/?page_id=725"},"modified":"2026-06-14T12:59:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:59:27","slug":"current-loons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/?page_id=725","title":{"rendered":"Who is The Lunatic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On April 1, 1978, a dream was born. A silly, not altogether normal dream about two state senators from Missouri and a jar of spicy dijon mustard. An admirable dream about a life of uncertainty, a hard life of animal husbandry and rigid macroeconomic theory. It was a dream of Americans, the American dream, a dream with some Americans in it\u2014and a jar of spicy dijon mustard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But then there was another dream, a preposterous dream, a dream about a humor magazine, a magazine based on humor, a humorous magazine born of the hearts and minds of some humorous people, their desires, fears, wants, and delusions. In short, a dream about the Cornell Lunatic, Cornell University\u2019s only award-winning humor magazine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b id=\"x_docs-internal-guid-f5888c9f-7fff-734a-b306-4ee0beff81bc\">This organization is a registered student organization of Cornell University.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Our Editorial Board<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Editor in Chief<\/strong><br \/>Joseph Lang \u201925<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Executive Editor<\/strong><br \/>Ayesha Chari \u201924<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Treasurer<\/strong><br \/>Mike Carr \u201924<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Art Directors<\/strong><br \/>Danish Qureshi \u201925<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Layout Editor<\/strong><br \/>Ellen Berghausen \u201925<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Web Editor<\/strong><br \/>Ethan Carlson \u201925<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sergeant-at-Arms<\/strong><br \/>RC Sidoli \u201926<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Alumni Advisor<\/strong><br \/>Joey Green \u201980<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1178\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/cornelllunatic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-13-at-2.30.04-AM.png?fit=960%2C699\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-13-at-2.30.04-AM.png 1616w, https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-13-at-2.30.04-AM-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-13-at-2.30.04-AM-768x560.png 768w, https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-13-at-2.30.04-AM-1024x746.png 1024w, https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-13-at-2.30.04-AM-1140x831.png 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/?page_id=725\" title=\"Who is The Lunatic?\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-725","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/725\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}