Tulane’s second annual Snow Day took place 5 - 8 p.m. Wednesday on the Monroe Quad. During the event, students drank hot chocolate, ate snacks, built snowmen and had snowball fights to relieve stress before the upcoming finals week.
Originally, Snow Day was going to be held in the Lavin-Bernick Center Quad but drainage concerns prompted a […]

President Barack Obama discusses Afghanistan
Obama announced Tuesday night that he would begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in 2011 but will send an additional 30,000 troops in 2010. Obama’s plan aims to prevent Al Quaeda from returning to Afghanistan and Taliban insurgents from overthrowing the government.
 
Iran convicts journalist
Iran sentenced economist and journalist Saeed Leylaz to […]

City competes for streetcar money
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Tuesday that more than $280 million will be available to cities looking to improve trolleys and streetcars. Cities could receive up to $25 million. New Orleans has the oldest continually running streetcar system in the country and is considered a frontrunner for the grant money.
 
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The Tulane chapter of FACE AIDS hosted its annual FACE AIDS Week Nov. 30 to Dec. 3.
The week included events designed to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic in both the United States and Africa.
“Our mission is to inspire and mobilize students to fight AIDS in Africa,” chapter leader Danielle Levy said. “Dec. 1 is World […]

Tulane staff and student leaders plan to meet in January 2010 to discuss possible changes to existing student insurance options. Here, student leaders may have the chance to present Tulane students’ concerns with the existing insurance plans.
Though many students benefit from their parents’ health insurance plans, a great number number of students still choose to explore […]

The American College Health Association reported Nov. 18 that the number of new cases of the H1N1 flu on college campuses has begun to decline.
The week ending Nov. 13 showed a 27 percent decrease in reported cases from the previous week, suggesting that the swine flu pandemic has peaked. The American College Health Association surveys more […]

Tulane’s Louisiana Research Collection is holding an exhibit on the Jewish heritage of New Orleans through the first week of January.
The manuscripts department and the Louisiana collection department combined this semester to form the Louisiana Research Collection, which is holding the exhibit.
“I wanted to put up an exhibition because one of our main strengths in the Louisiana […]

Following the trend of universities nationwide, the Undergraduate Student Government is exploring the idea of hosting spontaneous raves at study locations during finals this semester. With finals season approaching, USG is discussing how to employ these study breaks.
Daniel Gottlieb, USG representative and visionary of the finals raves, said USG intends to radically change the study environment […]

The Healthy Mondays Coalition — a partnership between the Student Health Center, Reily Recreation Center and Sodexo that works to promote student wellness — finished its inaugural semester last week.
Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and Syracuse University initially founded the public health initiative in 2005. Scott Tims, director of wellness and health promotion, brought the Healthy […]

Howard-Tilton Memorial Library is planning extensive renovations in response to their current space problems.
Two projects are currently in the design stages. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is funding the first project, which will replace space land the Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning system lost during Hurricane Katrina. The second project, called the Howard-Tilton Renewal Plan, will […]

The Tulane Prevention Research Center, part of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, recently received a renewal of its $5.3 million grant from the Center for Disease Control.
The PRC is a research organization consisting of Tulane graduate students and faculty along with its own staff that focuses on the effect environments have on obesity […]

A recent survey by Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions found that medical schools were most immune of all professional schools to the economic crisis. According to the survey, medical school applicants were far less likely than law school or business school applicants to decline an admission offer for financial reasons. Tulane’s medical school, however, cannot […]

Student tears off windshield wiper
A Tulane University police officer was returning to headquarters Nov. 25 when he noticed several students gathered at the exit of the Diboll Garage. The officer went to investigate what occurred. A student told the officer that he had been driving out of Diboll Garage when another student stepped in front of […]

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America
TODAY - Dec. 23
10 A.M. TO 8 P.M.
WOLDENBERG ART CENTER (NEWCOMB ART GALLERY)
Artwork by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is on display in Newcomb Art Gallery. Her works include drawings, printmaking, paintings and mixed media installations. This exhibit examines American-Indian life in contrast to the consumerism of contemporary society.
NEWCOMB ART DEPARTMENT HOLIDAY SALE
TODAY AND SATURDAY
10 […]

The Tulane University Police Department is in the process of installing 10 new emergency phones around campus.
TUPD has already installed eight of the phones and will install the last two in the next few years once the construction of Residential College Two is complete.
TUPD Captain Reid Noble said that the phones are being added to […]