George Fleming Lenz, a six-year Tulane School of Continuing Studies and University of New Orleans professor, died Thursday Feb 11 following complications from pneumonia.
Lenz’s wife, Carolyn Fynn Lenz, said that he had been hospitalized for six weeks before being released. Lenz, assisted by his wife, attempted to enter his home after being discharged and collapsed […]

Foburg Fest may have a kind of silly name, but it’s got some serious freaking talent. The Frenchmen Street festival will feature all sorts of diverse bands from close to home to super far away on the March 12 to 14 weekend. With 25 shows at six venues over the course of three days, it […]

Back in October, when I decided to write my first article about the treatment of Sodexo and UNICCO workers at Tulane, never would I have thought that organizing efforts would begin this year. With that being said, I cannot tell you how happy I am to be wrong — and believe me that’s a first.
Now that […]

The Tulane baseball team extended its winning streak to five with a three-game weekend sweep of the Lipscomb Bison. The wins give the Wave great momentum heading into a weekend series with No. 18 Ole Miss. The series had a wet start Friday night as Tulane won 7-4 under a steady rain, which according to […]

Army ROTC cadets carried M249 light machine guns during lab exercises Feb. 20 that involved the use of props portraying men dressed in traditional Muslim garb on Zimple Quad.
One cut-out prop depicted a man crouched behind a sheep, while the other represented a man standing behind an oil barrel. AROTC held the laboratory exercises two blocks […]

Wal-Mart
1901 Tchoupitoulas Street
Wal-Mart gets a bad rap. Its labor practices, market dominance and history of harsh negotiating tactics have given the company brand recognition problems that would put even McDonalds to shame. But to those paying attention, America’s largest grocer has been making some interesting steps to become, at the very least, marginally less evil. If […]

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 […]

The Tulane Green Wave opened their baseball season with a three-game weekend series against Boston College. A young Tulane team lost its first season opener since 2006 Friday night, losing 8-5.. The Wave started five true freshmen – shortstop Garrett Cannizaro, second baseman Brandon Middleton, left fielder Blake Crohan, centerfielder Brandon Boudreaux and right fielder […]

The struggling economy took a disastrous toll on donors’ wallets in 2009, resulting in a sharp decrease in private donations across the country. Tulane was no exception to this national trend.

The Council for Aid to Education’s annual survey reported that private gifts to colleges in 2009 decreased 11.9 percent, the steepest decline since the survey began […]

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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 […]

Under the bright Sun Life Stadium lights, Drew Brees led the New Orleans Saints to their first NFL championship in the 43 years of the team’s existence in a 31-17 victory against the Indianapolis Colts and Peyton Manning, picking up the game’s MVP award along the way.
Brees completed a record-tying 32 of 39 passes for 288 […]

Two allegedly armed robbers mugged a pair of Tulane students at 8:15 p.m. Saturday as they left Maple Street.
After demanding the students’ belongings, the assailants fled, and the students contacted the Tulane University Police Department. While this robbery was the first on Maple this semester, it follows two muggings in the area last semester.
TUPD Colonel […]

Zulu
8 a.m. Feb. 16
Talk about Mardi Gras with any veteran parade attendee, and Zulu is destined to come up. It’s the most famous Mardi Gras day parade, beginning its route before many New Orleanians have recovered from the night before. But its early start time is part of its allure; making the beginning of Zulu proves […]

I had the privilege to get to know Sule Osagiede during the past year and a half, in his time here at Tulane. When I heard the news of Sule’s death I was horrified, stricken. I was angry. I had dark moments of sadness. Despair. Most of all, though, I was confused.
Complete and utter confusion is […]