The Hullabaloo ran an article last week claiming that Tulane’s Army ROTC program used cardboard cutouts of men who appeared to be Muslim for target practice. The Tulane Muslim Students Association and other students reported that they were offended by the exercise and then, feeling slandered, members of the AROTC program reported that they were […]

There’s something about the word “Techno.” It’s probably the dirtiest thing you can say to someone who cares a lot about the semantics of music — as opposed to, you know, someone who just likes listening to it. If you, the average Tulane student, said something about some cool new Techno you just found, be […]

The Fleshlight is the ugly duckling of our sex-based consumer culture. The Fleshlight is not embarrassed by capitalism. While marketing normally consists of tricking consumers into viewing a commodity as something other than a mere tool to produce endorphins, the Fleshlight doesn’t waste time selling you meaning in a meaningless world; it provides the fuel […]

Seduction is an often-overlooked component of social status. It’s usually — and wrongly — reduced to conversations about sex and promiscuity. It’s better, however, to look at it the other way.
Exciting the passions and desires of an object of your affection is no simple task. Our arsenals contain multiple kinds of feints, misdirects, taunts and p-p-p-poker […]

“Avatar” made me want to do a lot of things, like become an eco-terrorist. Perhaps I’m not the best standard with which to judge how the highest-grossing film in history affected most viewers, but it turns out many Americans, and not just the LSD-casualties, found themselves longing after the lush world of Pandora and […]

Evolutionary Psychology is both hilarious and heartbreaking. On one hand, it’s been used to justify sexism, racism and every other inequality, but on the other, it’s just too easy to mock, because despite its intriguing name, the field has very little to do with either sound evolutionary theory or psychology. In fact, B.F Skinner […]

Lil’ Jon is the first Dirty South feminist. How do I know this? Well, I know a lot about feminist theory, and I’ve heard a couple of Lil’ Jon samples in my dubstep mixes. That’s good enough for me. So anyway, Lil’ Jon is the first Dirrrrrty South feminist.
Now, critics constantly slam rap as misogynist. With […]

When the Hunger and Homelessness Action Team decided to take action on homelessness, they tried to sleep in boxes they foraged from dumpsters around New Orleans. I guess it was supposed to raise “awareness.” During the event, however, drunk kids — out of either genuine anger or juvenile vanity — thought it necessary to […]

It’s a very popular notion that dating in college (and high school) is a social faux pas. That’s probably right, but I can never help myself, and I’ve given up trying.
I’ve been in relationships that lasted years, and relationships that lasted weeks. I’ve dated a girl who was practically homeless, an heiress and a […]

If the Hullabaloo is “the eyes and ears of the Tulane community,” then the views section should, logically, be the university’s voice. Well, not really. Any notion that a group of a few thousand college kids should have enough concordant opinions to create a unified “voice” is silly and reductionist.
So what should readers get out […]

On television, for every 10,000 murders, we see one orgasm. If you understand how ludicrous that is, stop here — you know everything I’m about to say. But if you don’t, if you find that statement objectionable or confusing, then read on.
You’d think that after 200,000 years of abstract thought we’d have discovered a […]

The fun police remind us, annoyingly often, that potential employers will scour our Facebook profiles. The cautious among us respond by frantically untagging themselves from compromising photos and adding “politics,” or whatever, to their interests.
I find the whole notion unconvincing. If a recruiter would refuse to hire me because I drink, occasionally enjoy the doobage, and […]

You probably don’t know what a professor of practice is. I didn’t.  They’re full-time non-tenure-track faculty that earn less, teach more and can’t vote in University Senate.
They were originally conceived as instructors with special non-academic expertise or “practice.” They were never tenure-tracked because their stay at an institution would rarely last more than a few […]

 Last week in these pages, there was an opinion piece analyzing the Freedom of Choice Act, or FOCA. Written by members of Tulane Students for Life, the piece was, understandably, highly critical of the legislation now making its way through congress. Although I will not be so bold as to claim intentional intellectual dishonesty, I […]