The typical American university is stuck in an ambiguous middle ground with job training (think business and sciences) on one extreme and inapplicable liberal arts on the other.
The ideal university incorporates both. The one that offers students natural sciences and valuable business degrees while at the same time offering liberal arts that can help guide one […]

Students in Willow A Residence have recently dealt with six unplanned fire alarms due to a mechanical failure within the steam valve in an equipment room behind PJ’s Coffee. The steam that leaked out set off the fire alarm that is placed directly above the steam valve.
Between last Saturdayand Sunday, Jan. 28, the malfunctioning steam valve […]

The Tulane University School of Medicine will host its third annual St. Baldrick’s Day on 2 - 5 p.m. March 5 on Tulane Avenue.
The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a non-profit public charity headquartered in California that raises money to fund childhood cancer research. It is the leading private donor for childhood cancer research in the nation.
St. […]

In addition to live YouTube streaming, every major news outlet and the three major ESPN channels broke regular programming to watch Tiger Woods apologize to 400 million people for cheating on his wife. And seemingly everyone in the media except for New York Times columnist Ross Douthat presumed that Tiger Woods’ private sex life is […]

Tulane law professor Tania Tetlow spoke 7 p.m. Tuesday in Rogers Chapel about jury discrimination against female victims of crime. After her talk, Tetlow took questions from the audience.
Tetlow runs the Tulane Domestic Violence Clinic in the Tulane University Law School. Before coming to Tulane in 2005, Tetlow was an assistant U.S. attorney in New Orleans […]

If you have followed any news in the past two weeks, you may be surprised to learn that, in fact, corporations have not, in fact, brainwashed you with political advertisements. Not yet.
The New York Times is certain that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission “has thrust politics back to the […]

Acclaimed novelist and literary critic Edmund White will be the featured guest at the next installment of the Creative Writing Fund’s Writer’s Writer Series 7 - 8:30 p.m. Feb. 1 in Woldenberg Art Center’s Freeman Auditorium.
The series hosts authors who are well-established, yet not as well-known as mainstream authors, like those in the Great […]

Since Google’s discovery a few weeks ago that hackers, likely from the Chinese government, broke into Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists in China and America, Google has threatened to end compliance with government censorship laws and to possibly close shop in China. Google CEO Eric Schmidt said, “It’s about our unwillingness to participate […]

Whether rebuilding churches or spending time with the elderly in local nursing homes, hundreds of Tulane students worked from early Monday morning until late in the afternoon for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service.
Honoring the legacy of the legendary civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., Tulane held the annual event in partnership with […]

The Matrix does not only exist on DVD; wherever something’s value is determined by its contribution to the system, the Matrix exists in our lives. People that feed off of the Matrix try to find meaning in life despite their reliance on a system that denies meaning itself.
In the Matrix, the artificial ‘reality’ that Thomas Anderson […]

President Obama’s speech to American soldiers at West Point Tuesday evening declaring a 30,000 troop surge into Afghanistan marked the first necessary deviation from his left-wing base, but his concessions to the base and his misguided view of the Middle East may outweigh any gain from the surge.
Obama came into office setting Al Qaeda and the […]

The late comedian Joe Lewis once said, “rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.” Nowadays, it’s more like rooting for Vladimir Putin, but U.S. Steel was also pretty unlovable back in the day.
Hating the Yankees is something that will never go out of fashion. Even if they stop spending more than every […]

Amazingly, the passage of the health care bill proves this: Democrats may actually care about something other than their political careers.
If the health bill clarifies anything — and Lord knows nothing within the text is clear — it’s that Democrats are thinking in one of two ways: “If this bill passes, I won’t get reelected because […]

Hedonism, the belief that maximizing pleasure should be the goal of life, is a particularly easy trap to fall into. I say so, because our biology has made certain things inherently pleasure inducing. Sex and food both serve as survival mechanisms for the individual and the species, so humanity is designed to enjoy both sex […]

When a large part of a group of people are inconsistent in their beliefs, it is expected. Humans are by nature inconsistent.
When a large segment of a group of people exhibits cognitive dissonance regarding one of the largest issues of the last 70 years, something is wrong.
And just as nuclear energy is the Achilles heel […]