Undergraduate Student Government and the Office of Multicultural Affairs are campaigning to the Provost Office to restore the coordinator position for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students for next year.
The Office of Multicultural Affairs had an LGBT coordinator at the beginning of last year, but he left for personal reasons. Soon thereafter, Tulane instituted head-count stabilization […]

Tulane’s Model United Nations delegation returned victorious from last weekend’s conference in San Francisco with eight awards. The conference was hosted by UC Berkeley.
Senior Koplan Nwabuoku, sophomore Kelsey Rogut and freshman JP Gooderham, also a staff writer for The Hullabaloo, all won Outstanding Delegate awards. In addition, three Tulane delegates earned Honorable Mention awards and two […]

The Tulane Chinese Students and Scholars Association will host a Spring Festival celebration Feb. 13 in honor of the lunar Chinese New Year. There will be music and dancing performances, traditional games and Chinese food. The TCSSA invited other local Chinese associations, as well as their foreign and American friends.
The TCSSA is hoping many non-Chinese students […]

Tulane introduced its first-ever student-run course this semester. The non-traditional class, called Rethinking Development, was facilitated by seniors Lauren Elliot and Kelly Jacques. It was inspired by a student-run course at Georgetown University.
The class consists of students with different academic backgrounds. It spans diverse areas of study, with students learning about international and post-development theory and […]

Following the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, various student organizations on campus have held events to raise funds for the relief effort.
From selling quesadillas outside the Catholic Center to raising money for the Red Cross, Tulane students were quick to respond to the Haitian cries for help.

Tulane Hillel is sponsoring a campus-wide fundraiser called Challah for […]

The Healthy Mondays Coalition — a partnership between the Student Health Center, Reily Recreation Center and Sodexo that works to promote student wellness — finished its inaugural semester last week.
Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and Syracuse University initially founded the public health initiative in 2005. Scott Tims, director of wellness and health promotion, brought the Healthy […]

In response to the current economic recession, the Career Center has worked to broaden its services for students in the schools of Liberal Arts and Science and Engineering.
In the current economic climate, career centers across the nation have had to work with less.
According to a National Association of Colleges and Employers survey, approximately 55 percent of […]

Tulane’s Center for Inter-American Policy and Research received a $12.3 million grant from an anonymous donor.
The grant will go toward increasing CIPR projects and programs and expanding post-doctorate program in San José, Costa Rica.
CIPR is a collaborative effort of the Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Centro de Investigación y Adiestramiento Político […]

 The Undergraduate Student Government is looking into bringing back the Readership Program that provided students with national newspapers in the residence halls.
USG taking initiative to gather the information needed to make a decision.
“USG is interested in bringing the program back, so we are taking the necessary steps,” said Lauren Aronson, USG vice president of student life.
The Readership Program […]

The Tulane School of Medicine will open a new health center this February at Dillard University.
Tulane Medical School operates community health centers to help people in New Orleans with limited access to primary care and no health insurance. Dillard University is currently building the new facility. Once construction is complete, Tulane will provide the clinical […]