While many college dating scenes suffer because of gender gaps and are put under increased pressure with the approach of Valentine’s Day, Tulanians appear satisfied with the school’s casual attitude toward romance.
Estimates of the female-to-male ratio at universities nationwide range from 54 - 46 (Population Reference Bureau, 2005) to 57 - 43 (USAToday, 2005), and Tulane’s […]

Almost every Tulane student has become a Saints fan, thanks to the team’s stellar season and Super Bowl victory, even if they weren’t always passionate about football.
“[The victory] feels amazing,” sophomore Shoshi Bromley-Dulfano said. “Football has never been my sport; I never supported any team or felt any connection to the sport until I came here,”
Just like […]

The student body elected Junior Blandon David as Associated Student Body president this week.
David received 941 votes, 62.73 percent of the total vote. His opponents, junior Reed Wendorf-French and sophomore Cory Dorfman received about 25 percent and 12 percent, respectively.
Dorfman was penalized by 1 percent of votes received because he did not submit an expense report to […]

Following months of eager anticipation, the New Orleans mayoral race came to a swift end after voters elected Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu Saturday in a landslide victory against a field of five opposing candidates.
Landrieu, a moderate Democrat, ran on a platform of creating more jobs, improving the poorly ranked public school system and pursuing crime prevention […]

Undergraduate Student Government’s Finance Committee collected all student organizations’ budget requests Wednesday evening.
The finance committee will now begin the process of reviewing the proposals to create the final budget proposal, which will be presented to the USG senate at their second-to-last meeting of the year.
“Budgets were due yesterday at 5 [p.m.],” said Parker Smith, USG vice president […]

The struggling economy took a disastrous toll on donors’ wallets in 2009, resulting in a sharp decrease in private donations across the country. Tulane was no exception to this national trend.

The Council for Aid to Education’s annual survey reported that private gifts to colleges in 2009 decreased 11.9 percent, the steepest decline since the survey began […]

For anyone who has spent any amount of time in New Orleans recently, it’s easy to become a bit jaded by the national media’s insistence that the Saints Super Bowl victory is somehow magically leading to the city’s “rebirth” and that it “gave the city back its pride.” One can’t help but get the impression […]

While teenage pregnancy and abortion rates have increased across the country, the Tulane Health Center said that numbers have remained steady at the university.
The Guttmacher Institute recently released a study that found that from 2005 to 2006, the pregnancy rate rose among teenagers. Among 18- to 19- year-old women, the pregnancy rate rose from 118 to […]

The Graduate and Professional Student Association passed revisions to its bylaws in a unanimous vote to give individual graduate schools more power to work with their own money.
The bylaws have three main changes. First, GAPSA has access to funds made of student activities fees. It has a set firm cap of up to nine percent of […]

The catastrophic earthquake that hit the island nation of Haiti Jan. 12 shocked the world, with brutal images of devastation and a death toll that has now surpassed 230,000, according to reports. The earthquake, which registered a magnitude of seven on the Richter scale, struck about 16 miles from the capital city of Port-au-Prince. At […]

Tulane University and Louisiana State University medical school doctors recently conducted a study of the effectiveness of red-light cameras in Jefferson Parish. They found that the cameras only slightly reduced the number of crashes, and the overall decrease was statistically insignificant.
“One of our professors got a red-light camera ticket, and that’s how we got started talking […]

Students will be able use their dining dollars at select off-campus locations starting next semester as part of an overhaul of the meal plan system.
The new system will eliminate Wave Bucks and offer a wider and more flexible range of plans.
“It’s about freedom more than anything,” said David Gray, a member of the Dining Services Student Advisory […]

The Associated Student Body will propose the construction of a memorial in honor of Martha Hardy, known to many on campus as Granny Cart Lady.
Hardy, who passed away Dec. 9 at the age of 91, became an iconic figure at Tulane University through her persistent educational ambitions and frequent interactions with the community.
Associated Student Body President Tim […]

Sophomore Spandana Induru recently founded the Tulane chapter of the Sanjeevani Project.
Abhita Reddy, an undergraduate student at Northwestern University and a close family friend of Induru, founded the original chapter of the Sanjeevani Project, an initiative to raise funds to build a school in her father’s native Indian village.
Reddy’s father Sanjeeva Reddy, who came from a family […]

Tulane law professor Tania Tetlow spoke 7 p.m. Tuesday in Rogers Chapel about jury discrimination against female victims of crime. After her talk, Tetlow took questions from the audience.
Tetlow runs the Tulane Domestic Violence Clinic in the Tulane University Law School. Before coming to Tulane in 2005, Tetlow was an assistant U.S. attorney in New Orleans […]