French novelist Gustave Flaubert once said, “Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.” For America, ignorance of conservatism, its history and the policies of the last eight years have led to large-scale slander and confusion.
Conservatism faces major hurdles in the next few years. Thanks to George W. Bush’s false conservatism, and […]
In a rough week for Tulane baseball, the Green Wave lost two of three games on the road against the UC-Irvine Anteaters. The Wave came back to Louisiana only to lose twice to its in-state rival, Southeastern Louisiana, in the 2009 Senator’s Cup.
Tulane started the week off […]
So, you’ve built the perfect bracket with the perfect amount of easy wins, upsets and the given No. 12 seed over a No. 5 seed. You’re all set.
But what if your No. 1 seed becomes a one-and-done team? March may seem as dreary as November if your bracket suddenly busts, but don’t worry. […]
East:
As March Madness quickly approaches, fans everywhere have been scrambling to fill out their brackets. While this information will come a little late, (as the tournament will already be underway), here is a quick explanation of the four regions and what to expect come Final Four time.
Midwest:
This may be the easiest region of the bunch […]
Last Saturday, the Tulane men’s rugby team hit the road at 6 a.m. to face off against Mississippi State for the League Championship title. Despite losing a home-field advantage at the last minute, the Green Wave prevailed, defeating the Bulldogs 22-13.
“The game went really well,” sophomore kicker Shawn Rice said. “Though we did […]
Twenty years from now, the stories about Tulane I’ll remember most will be about the Hullabaloo. Whether they’ve occurred on a caffeine-filled production night or at a boozy staff party, the Hullabaloo is the source of my best and worst experiences at Tulane.
I’m not saying the rest of my “Tulane experience” was an unmemorable wash. […]
One thing that every student learns from the day they walk into their first social studies class in fifth grade until college is how the three branches of our government work. The legislative branch makes the laws, the executive branch enforces the laws and the judicial branch checks the constitutionality of the laws.
It may surprise […]
While in Africa this week, Pope Benedict XVI upheld the Catholic Church’s ban on condoms. He claimed that the HIV/AIDS epidemic must be fought with abstinence and fidelity, not contraceptives.
This stance is simply in line with the traditional values of the Catholic Church, which believes that sexual intercourse is to be practiced exclusively by husbands […]
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 […]
Harry hears that there will be some boys struttin’ their stuff in high heels and it ain’t even Decadence Fest yet. Harry’s got into the spirit of things and has decided he will try and walk a mile in the shoes of the girls he sees through his telescopic lens at the Boot on Tuesday […]
It is difficult to know where to begin my last column as editor-in-chief of the Tulane Hullabaloo. This paper has been the main part of my life this past year, and truth be told, I can’t imagine life without it.
While I would certainly like to claim all the credit for this year’s improvements, I’m afraid […]
The Boy Least Likely To
The Law of the Playground
Label: +1
Genre: Indie Pop
If you take one word from a few song titles on The Boy Least Likely To’s “The Laws of the Playground,” you could successfully summarize the entire album: balloons, lemonade, butterflies, hearts, whiskers, worms and fairytales. It is filled with that many childish pleasures.
Englishmen Jof […]
by Madison LaGrone and Liz Kurtz
Joe Krown Trio:
Led by Joe Krown, this blues trio has played with some of the greatest blues musicians in America, and soon they will be playing right here on campus. Members Walter “Wolfman” Washington and Russell Batiste contribute to the ‘20s blues-influenced sound, as well as the more modern structure with […]
New Orleans is a city with a unique strain of music palpable at every corner. Any given day of the week, you could trek down to Preservation Hall to hear great jazz, walk to the Maple Leaf Bar to listen to blues or groove to almost anything at Rock n’ Bowl. The rest of the […]
It’s easy to tell when a band has “it.” When they have that dynamic, that sincere sense of solidarity, it’s obvious. It’s clear in their music, their sound and the idiosyncrasies of their interactions.
Funk.Soul.Family has it.
The young, seven-person band, which is composed of three students from Tulane and four from Loyola, embodies a kind of […]