T.J Quills, the decades-old Maple Street bar, will reopen as early as May 5 after two years as The Raven. The new owners plan to revive Quill’s venerable Big Cup Night.
Before it closed in 2008, Quills was famous for its cheap mid-week drink specials. Draft beer cost 25 cents on Tuesday, and Wednesday’s wildly popular Big […]

After a turbulent fall semester, the campus group Rape Emergency and Coping Hotline has reorganized, found a new name and is in the process of reinstituting its crisis hotline.
Tulane administrators, citing concerns about lack of training and volunteers to man the hotline, decided to temporarily shut down the crisis hotline last fall. The hotline fielded approximately […]

Members of the organization Building Tomorrow biked hundreds of miles this week to raise money for a school in Kampala, Uganda. Their goal is to bike as much of the 8,140 miles between New Orleans and Uganda as possible.
“One hundred percent of all the money we raise goes directly to building costs,” freshman rider Anne Lootens […]

The university plans to temporarily relocate 11 feral cats currently living under Richardson Building because of continued renovations to the building. The cats will be moved to hutches directly Richardson.
“This relocation will provide a safer environment for the cats and remove them from the area
where construction activities will be taking place,” said Greg Southworth, associate vice […]

It only took one summer to convince junior Janis Cohen that a career in human resources was not for her. Cohen held an unpaid internship in the Red Cross’s Office of Disaster Preparedness Human Resources office, where she spent most of her day in front of a computer screen.
“It sounds a lot more exciting than it […]

Bestselling author Barbara Ehrenreich spoke Wednesday night about her latest book, “Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America,” which criticizes America’s obsession with blind optimism. She also spoke out in favor of the Sodexo worker movement on campus.
“I’m here to speak out against positive thinking,” Ehrenreich said to a capacity crowd in […]

Tulane plans to replace Taco Bell with Baja Fresh, a different Mexican fast-food option in the Lavin-Bernick Center food court.
Renovations will begin early this summer and dining services said it hopes they will be completed for the start of June orientations for freshmen.
“Students were telling us that they wanted a healthier Mexican option,” said Lisa Norris, associate […]

A significant increase in applications and a university-wide hiring freeze has meant long lines and frustration for students applying to study abroad this semester.
The study abroad office currently employs only three full-time staffers, four part-time peer advisers and supplemental help from the academic advising center to manage more than 500 study abroad applications per year.
“It’s been […]

A growing number of Americans feel that a college education is both more important and less accessible than ever before, according to a recently published study.
Public Agenda and the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education conducted the study, which found that 55 percent of Americans feel a college degree is essential to finding […]

Students disappointed about JuicyCampus’s demise have found a home at CollegeACB, the newest discussion site to hit college campuses.
The site allows students to post anonymously about anything, though discussion on the Tulane forum tends to focus on gossip and personal attacks.
“The type of things people say on this Web site I can guarantee […]

Students will be able use their dining dollars at select off-campus locations starting next semester as part of an overhaul of the meal plan system.
The new system will eliminate Wave Bucks and offer a wider and more flexible range of plans.
“It’s about freedom more than anything,” said David Gray, a member of the Dining Services Student Advisory […]

The Tulane campus is gearing up for Super Bowl Sunday. The Tulane University Police Department is preparing for a long day, area bars are anticipating massive turnouts and the Undergraduate Student Government is rallying administrators to cancel classes Monday.
Colonel Jack LeBlanc and the rest of TUPD are finalizing their Super Bowl Special Operations Plan, which will […]

Tulane welcomed its first group of Posse scholars this September, all of whom are from Los Angeles.
These students are part of a nationwide non-profit that aims to provide traditionally underserved and high-potential students with full scholarships, a tight-knit group of peers and university support to help them graduate from college.
The scholars were selected last January and […]

Tulane student athletes are currently working with university administrators to give athletes some form of priority class registration.
Tulane’s 270 student athletes currently register for classes with the rest of the student body, which can create scheduling conflicts, especially for freshmen.
“Lots of student athletes don’t come in with Advanced Placement credit, which means that some of the freshman […]

A recent survey by Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions found that medical schools were most immune of all professional schools to the economic crisis. According to the survey, medical school applicants were far less likely than law school or business school applicants to decline an admission offer for financial reasons. Tulane’s medical school, however, cannot […]