Tulane’s Model United Nations delegation returned victorious from last weekend’s conference in San Francisco with eight awards. The conference was hosted by UC Berkeley.
Senior Koplan Nwabuoku, sophomore Kelsey Rogut and freshman JP Gooderham, also a staff writer for The Hullabaloo, all won Outstanding Delegate awards. In addition, three Tulane delegates earned Honorable Mention awards and two […]

Tulane’s Tobacco Free Campus Policy, passed in May 2008 by the University Senate, has been enacted.

The policy bans smoking within 25 feet of any university building doorway. The Student Health Center installed 20 green smoking poles around campus to indicate areas where smoking is permitted. The SHC said that these areas are strategically located to […]

The student body elected Lauren Aronson as Undergraduate Student Government President March 3 with 57.5 percent of the vote.
In the other executive board elections, students voted for Cassady Adams as executive vice president, Billy Duffy as vice president for finance, Dan Capek as vice president for student life, Adrianne Rosenbluth as vice president for student organizations […]

Propelled by Hurricane Katrina and a growing national trend to change the methods students use to conduct research, Tulane’s libraries have dramatically increased its digital collection in recent years.
Prior to 2005, the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library seldom purchased online databases. Tulane students and faculty have just begun using the databases — which may cost thousands of dollars […]

Kappa Kappa Psi, the national honor band fraternity, has returned to Tulane after an 84-year hiatus.
After a two-year process to restart the Rho chapter of the fraternity at Tulane, the 16 “modern founding fathers” went through installment on Feb. 20, and the chapter will have its first recruitment event Wednesday.
“Even though the process took a long time, […]

According to survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau, New Orleans ranks eighth among the 51 largest U.S. cities for the percentage of residents who walk or bike as their main mode of transportation.
The report, compiled by the Alliance for Biking and Walking, reported that 9 percent of trips made in the city are done […]

Students in Willow A Residence have recently dealt with six unplanned fire alarms due to a mechanical failure within the steam valve in an equipment room behind PJ’s Coffee. The steam that leaked out set off the fire alarm that is placed directly above the steam valve.
Between last Saturdayand Sunday, Jan. 28, the malfunctioning steam valve […]

The English department will host Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate Rita Dove for a poetry reading 7 p.m. Monday in McAlister Auditorium. Dove will give a reading of her own poetry.
She has authored nine poetry collections, and has also published fiction, drama and an essay collection. Dove received the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 […]

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has put a planned renovation of the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library under review for a second time. The project, intended to repair damage from Hurricane Katrina, would replace the heating, ventilating and air conditioning system. The project would also build a two-story addition to the top of the building.
FEMA announced Sept. 2 […]

Medical emergency
A student reported to a Tulane University Police Department at 9:30 p.m. Feb 7 that she was bitten by a dog in front of The Boot. The student had bloody puncture wounds on her right palm, according to TUPD. The student said the dog had walked up to her and sniffed her leg. She […]

New Orleans-based Army reservists arrive in Haiti
A group of Army reservists in the 377th Theater Sustainment Command, based in the New Orleans area, arrived in Haiti Sunday to direct logistics of delivering aid to victims of the Jan. 12 earthquake. More than 170 soldiers went to Haiti and will likely remain there for several months.
Louisiana named […]

The unusually cold New Orleans winter has taken a toll on the local seafood industry.
Crawfish are in short supply and prices are up all over the state. Suppliers are scrambling to save their business in the difficult market.
Crawfish, a staple of Cajun and Creole cuisine in Louisiana, usually flourish at this time of year. The brutal […]

A significant increase in applications and a university-wide hiring freeze has meant long lines and frustration for students applying to study abroad this semester.
The study abroad office currently employs only three full-time staffers, four part-time peer advisers and supplemental help from the academic advising center to manage more than 500 study abroad applications per year.
“It’s been […]

Chilean officials overestimate death toll
Emergency management officials in Chile lowered the estimated death toll from Saturday’s earthquake from 805 to 279 people. The estimate can still change, since many of the dead have yet to be identified or remain missing. Carmen Farnandez, the director of the emergency management agency, said that overestimation resulted from […]

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 […]