We have, I am afraid, been lied to.
My generation, Generation Y, is lousy at rebellion. Many of us were raised by Baby Boomers with a bottomless tolerance for pretty much anything, spurred by their own fancy-free youth. Most of us Generation Y’ers had nothing to rebel against, and if we did rebel, it was ineffective and […]

The Student Health Center has seen the first cases of the H1N1 strain of influenza, commonly known as Swine Flu, on campus.
The SHC confirmed that one Tulane athlete and two visiting students were infected with H1N1 at the beginning of August., The Louisiana State Laboratory, which tests influenza specimens for the H1N1 strain, has stopped taking […]

Tulane University Police Department, in conjunction with the New Orleans Police Department and other local agencies, is poised to take a tougher stance on underage drinking in an effort to keep students safe.
TUPD officials say the problems arising from excessive alcohol consumption pose a serious threat to the safety of Tulane students.
“Last school year there were 347 […]

Howard-Tilton Memorial Library returned to its regular fall hours last Monday. Though the library is already open past midnight five nights a week, some students feel that later hours would be more beneficial to students who choose to study late into the night.
ASB President Tim Clinton will be focusing his efforts on extending the library hours […]

Construction on a new residence hall will begin in November, with a new building set to open in August 2011.
The building, which is currently being referred to as Residential College Two, will be located near Butler Hall in place of the temporary classroom complex, said Todd Schill, assistant vice president for student affairs of housing and […]

In a recent report released by U.S. News and World Report, Tulane ranked 50 among national universities, an important change from last year’s 51st place ranking.
This change is the result of a collaborative effort from both students and administration.
Each year U.S. News compiles a list of the top 50 universities in the country.  The list is based […]

Even though thousands of people filled campus last Saturday, Tulane University Police Department and Housing and Residence Life said that move-in day turned out to be more efficient than expected.
To prepare for move-in, TUPD practiced possible routes for cars. TUPD placed four to seven officers in each dorm on move-in day. It also worked closely with […]

Ashoka, the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs selected Tulane University as a 2009-10 Changemaker Campus along with Babson College, The University of Colorado at Boulder, College of the Atlantic and The New School. Selection was finalized Aug.18.
Ashoka says the program brings people together from across campus to transform their university into a hub for social […]

Complying with requirements detailed in the Higher Education Opportunity Act, Network Security has updated its methods of discouraging illegal file sharing by students through torrents.
Network Security previously used a program that would detect the use of illegal file sharing — such as that of music, television shows and movies — and cut off only those specific […]

Tulane’s first official fall break is scheduled for Oct. 15-18. The break was created to give students time off before midterm exams.
“The creation of the break was student driven, but the university was very supportive of the break, particularly for first-year students, since it falls right around mid-term exams,” said James MacLaren, dean of Newcomb-Tulane College.
The idea […]

This Labor Day weekend, the 39th annual Southern Decadence gay pride festival will take place in the French Quarter.  The festivities, which include talent contests, drag shows, dance parties and a parade, run from Wednesday to Sept. 7.
The event was originally conceived by a group of friends living outside the French Quarter as a small party […]

Tulane lost a valued member of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps community Sunday when Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Wendell Lee Collins was killed in a plane crash in Ama, La., not far from New Orleans International Airport. The plane’s owner, James Miller, was also killed in the crash. The flight was recreational and not related […]

Four Hullabaloo staff members, Will Lee-Wagner, Derrick Toups, Mary Bernton and I, went to Howard-Tilton Memorial Library last week to search the archives fun retro ads to place in the first issue of our centennial volume. Had we known that we actually were going to rewrite Hullabaloo history, we would not have been content just […]

Peter Silberman of the Antlers entered a period of isolation two years ago in a New York City apartment.  He spent those years writing and recording music.  Silberman stated plainly, “I was just being by myself way too much.”  As solitary confinement and its accompanying troubles can often awaken beauty in an artist’s […]

Musicians like Regina Spektor, who compose songs featuring dolphin squeaks and cyborg-sounding robot impersonations, walk a fine line. They shoot for quirkiness and whimsy. But in doing so, they flirt dangerously with unlistenable percussive pop. But in Spektor’s latest, Far, she manages to create an album of abstract absurdity that’s not too absurdly abstract.
Part of the […]