Blandon David stepped down as Associate Student Body president this summer.
The joint executive board, which consists of the presidents and vice presidents from Undergraduate Student Government and from the Graduate and Professional Student Association, unanimously elected Chelsea Cipriano as interim ASB president.

David said he loves Tulane and hopes to return in the future. “I hope to […]

Tulane’s chapter of Zeta Beta Tau is facing one year of suspension following a series of violations during spring semester.

Student Conduct placed Zeta Beta Tau on probation in February after discovering an alcohol violation, an unregistered party and hazing during spring semester. Student Conduct gave the chapter a series of requirements to meet in order to […]

Student Affairs faces some major staff changes this semester, including the selection of Mike Hogg as vice president of student affairs and dean of students, and new vacancies in the positions of associate vice president of student affairs for residential communities and associate vice president of student engagement.
Todd Schill, associate vice president of student affairs for […]

Students voted this week to elect 11 Undergraduate Student Government senators for the 2010 - 11 academic year.
Reaching more than 30 percent of the undergraduate student body, this year’s turnout for the senator elections was higher than it had been in previous years.
Of the 11 senators, eight have served on USG before either as senators or as […]

Students voted on a referendum this week in favor of banning CollegeACB. The Undergraduate Student Government will respond to the referendum by asking the administration and technology services to block the Web site from the Tulane network.
Below the option to vote for USG senators, students had the option to answer whether they supported the referendum. […]

Approximately 44,000 students applied to Tulane this year, one of the highest numbers among private institutions in the country.
Though it is clear that Tulane received one of the largest numbers of applications in the country, it is not official whether Tulane has received the very most.
“It appears that we have the most applications for the upcoming […]

Tulane Law School is considering whether it should continue to allow law students to work at Tulane Legal Assistance Program to meet their 30-hour requirement of pro bono work. Undergraduate Student Government is proposing legislation that would oppose this decision.
The law school has had a pro bono requirement since 1988, but did not consider working for […]

Tulane Card Services recently assigned new student identification numbers and is in the process of distributing Splash Cards, new ID cards that will go into operation this fall.
Current ID cards currently use students’ Social Security numbers, limiting use of their cards to on-campus locations because of the threat of identity theft. The new cards will use […]

With on-campus housing filling up, more students than ever are looking for off-campus housing options. Switching from dorm life to real life, however, is a big change. With the help of Gregory Nichols of the Tulane University Legal Assistance Program, who said half of TULAP’s cases involve problems between landlords and tenants, The Hullabaloo compiled […]

Tulane’s dining services employees presented Sodexo with a request to form a union without intimidation from management Wednesday.

A crowd of students marched with workers to Dining Services General Manager Phoebe Cook’s office to present a document with their demands. Anthony Thomas, who has worked with Sodexo for approximately five-and-a-half years, presented the document with a plea […]

Tulane students have come out to support Tulane’s Sodexo employees as Sodexo holds informational staff meetings about unionization.
Sodexo’s meetings
Sodexo Public Relations Director Monica Zimmer said that this week’s staff meetings were first informational meetings, permitted under National Labor Relations Board guidelines, and later business planning meetings.
Service Employees International Union representatives and Sodexo employees, however, said that […]

Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS shoes, will speak at Tulane next week as part of the NewDay Social Entrepreneurship Distinguished Speakers Series.
Mycoskie will speak at 5:30 p.m Tuesday in the Kendal-Cram Auditorium of the Lavin-Bernick Center. TOMS shoes promises that for every pair of shoes it sells, it will donate a pair to a child […]

Tulane’s Sodexo employees are beginning to plan for unionization. The Hullabaloo spoke to Sodexo employees who agreed to speak on grounds of anonymity. Organizers from Service Employees International Union declined to comment at this time.
A long-time Sodexo employee who works for Tulane’s dining services said that after work, she often goes home and cries.
“Everybody wants to be […]

While teenage pregnancy and abortion rates have increased across the country, the Tulane Health Center said that numbers have remained steady at the university.
The Guttmacher Institute recently released a study that found that from 2005 to 2006, the pregnancy rate rose among teenagers. Among 18- to 19- year-old women, the pregnancy rate rose from 118 to […]

The Graduate and Professional Student Association passed revisions to its bylaws in a unanimous vote to give individual graduate schools more power to work with their own money.
The bylaws have three main changes. First, GAPSA has access to funds made of student activities fees. It has a set firm cap of up to nine percent of […]