Members of the Tulane community have partnered with Roots of Music, working as tutors in an afterschool program that serves middle school children seeking both an a musical and academic education.
The Roots of Music program began two-and-a-half years ago in response to the lack of music programs in elementary schools in post-Katrina New Orleans. Allison Reinhardt, […]

After describing his own NFL Combine performance as “disappointing,” Tulane wide receiver Jeremy Williams looked to impress interested NFL scouts at Tulane’s Pro Day last week. He was joined by running back, Andre Anderson who was not invited to last month’s Combine.
In contrast to the Combine, Tulane’s Pro Day is a smaller scale event during which […]

After leading Tulane to a combined 9-27 record in his three years as head coach, Bob Toledo will return to Tulane next year along with his staff, including offensive coordinator and assistant head coach Dan Dodd and defensive coordinator Steve Stanard. Toledo has two years left on his contract, which provides him with about $450,000 […]

The National Institutes of Health awarded Tulane University a $15-million contract last September for further study of Lassa fever, an acute viral illness affecting much of West Africa.
The Lassa virus infects hundreds of thousands of West Africans each year, and nearly 16 percent of people admitted to hospitals have Lassa fever in some areas. The United […]

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 […]

Tulane’s Sodexo employees are beginning to plan for unionization. The Hullabaloo spoke to Sodexo employees who agreed to speak on grounds of anonymity. Organizers from Service Employees International Union declined to comment at this time.
A long-time Sodexo employee who works for Tulane’s dining services said that after work, she often goes home and cries.
“Everybody wants to be […]

The Green Wave women’s basketball team plays East Carolina University 1 p.m. this Saturday in Greensboro, N.C. Tulane will try to improve its 17-5 record (6-3 in Conference USA), which has them in a three-way tie for first place in C-USA through Tuesday.
Tulane is trying to recover from a puzzling loss to conference cellar-dweller Tulsa, who […]

Lady Green Wave vs LSU Basketball

A team of Tulane students won a social entrepreneurship contest based on the new mtvU series “Movers and Changers.”

The WetTea project was selected from hundreds of entries from across the country as the winner. The team consisted of public health major Shea Kathryne Shelton and business majors Jay Zhao and Nic LaGatta.
The WetTea team and runner-up SafeSnip […]

After ruling out a replacement building for financial reasons, Tulane decided to replace the Anthropology Building with a parking lot.

Though the Federal Emergency Agency offered to pay to repair the Anthropology Building, the amount of damage to the building warranted an entirely new building in its place, said Rick Jones, senior associate vice president of […]

The second of three plays put on by the department of theater and dance this fall, “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” by Sarah Ruhl is doleful but still quirky and funny.

Under the direction of Lorenzo Gonzalez, each member of the cast — save for Zane Hilton — debuts in her first Tulane performance, one that is […]

The 20th Annual New Orleans Film Festival featured locally shot “Welcome to Academia,” a bold film that reveals the behind-the-scenes drama and politics at a fictitious Ivy League school. Filmed on Tulane’s campus in 2007, the movie deals with the role of pure academic research at universities and whether school administrations really care about their […]

Tulane’s Musical Theatre Workshop presented Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s “Little Shop of Horrors” — a rock musical complete with big-haired bee-bop guys, she-bop gals, a sadistic dentist and a man-eating plant — just in time for Halloween.

The show follows Seymour (Daniel Iwrey), a timid orphan living on skid row, and his rise to botanical fame […]

After this week’s 45-0 thrashing at the hands of LSU, it’s easy to be critical. It’s important, however, to remember that Tulane’s football team is not made up of professional athletes. It consists of students, just like us. In almost every case, these students play their hearts out for Tulane week in and week out.

This includes […]

“We got in the locker room, and it was wild. It was wild. That’s all I can tell you. It was uncontrollable, which was great.”
If I told you that quotation was from Washington Head Coach Steve Sarkisian’s comment after beating No. 3-ranked USC, it would make sense. How about South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier after upsetting No. […]