The Spring 2009 issue will make you laugh, and it will make you cry.
Next Issue
The next issue of Voo Doo will be distributed in November 2009. It's a full 32 page issue with all new material, and all of it is funny. We're accepting submissions until Friday, October 30th--get them in to us at voodoo [at] mit [dot] edu. Now! Now! We know where you live. The sooner you submit, the happier you will become.
Voo Doo Office Hours
Summer and Fall office hours have been posted! Come by the Voo Doo office, Walker Memorial Room 50-309 every Friday from 7 to 8 PM. What better way to start off the weekend than by spreading humor and pox to your fellow humans?
The Voo Doo Archive Project
We are about to initiate a big effort to obtain and digitise all of the past issues of Voo Doo, all the way back to 1919. Having the issues professionally scanned in excruciating detail costs about $12 per issue, so at our current usual rate of poverty this will take a long time. If you would like to donate money or old issues to this worthy cause, please get in touch with us at voodoo [at] mit.edu. Check with us first before sending us any old issues, in case we have them already. We also will be able to arrange return of your treasured memento. Check out the ones we have done so far in the Voo Doo Archives.
From noon on April 18 to noon on April 19, Voodoo held its annual 24-Hour Telethon on MIT Student Cable (Channel 36) to raise funds for Voodoo Magazine.
The next one will happen after we recover.
The Voo Doo Comedy Cracktacular happened on Saturday, April 8,
2006 and was a resounding success! Five comedians were jeered and
hooted off the stage while prefrosh were introduced to the myriad
pleasures of beaver-shaped vibrators and GRE prep games. Check out
the pictures.
The Voo Doo Problem Set
Don't have enough work to do? Then try your hand at this latest
dribble from the fire hose: the Voo Doo
Problem Set. First distributed to 18.01 freshmen on September 30, it
is quickly spreading to become the world's biggest craze!
Welcome To The Institute
In Fall 2008 Voo Doo handed out to freshmen the following Welcome To The Institute document, to prepare
their tender young placentas for the bloody uterus of MIT. Check it out!
Voo Doo launches the First Annual 24-Hour Telethon on MIT Cable!
From 8 pm April 10th to 8 pm April 11th, 1999,
MIT Cable aired an exclusive live broadcast of Voo Doo staff members
making fools of themselves on cable television for 24 straight hours, to raise
funds for Voo Doo. We're not kidding. We did it again in April 2003. Want
your own live show on the upcoming telethon on April 9th, 2005?
Let us know--send us mail at voodoo [at] mit.edu!
Voo Doo enters the Jello iMac Contest
On March 26, 1999, Voo Doo entered the Jello iMac contest sponsored by Apple
Computer and MCC, in which competitors across MIT built iMacs, to scale, out
of gelatin in order to vie for the prize of a real iMac. Instead of following
the directions, Voo Doo decided to enter the "Open Source jMac," to the
surprise of the crowd. The entry consisted of a fake "Think Different" ad we
threw together featuring Linus Torvalds drinking a beer, with a box of jello,
a spoon, and a mini jello mold duct-taped to it. Here's a picture of the entry!
MIT to stop admitting freshmen in 2001
Read about it in the News Release published
in October 1998. (Note that the photo looks much better when
printed.)
Voo Doo hacks Windows Distribution
On Thursday, July 25th, the evil corporate giant Microsoft released its latest version of Windows in Cambridge. Voo Doo participated in a protest where Red Hat Linux 5.1 boot disks were handed out to brainwashed citizens waiting to buy Windows98. Here is a copy of a pamphlet distributed by Voo Doo staff.
MIT Entropians
Over the summer of 1997, a (formerly ASA-recognized) MIT activity called the
"Extropians" sent a controversial mailing to the class of 2001 which, among
other things, questioned the ability of women and minorities to succeed at
MIT. Not to be outdone in the humour department, at the Activities Midway
Voo Doo distributed a pamphlet written by the MIT Entropians. Here it is in
Adobe Acrobat format and
PostScript format .
Online Issues
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