Early Monday morning, America saw the last nighttime space shuttle launch in history. After the Endeavor touches back down, only four more shuttles will ever leave Earth again. At that point, NASA’s 30-year  shuttle program will be over.
While the end of the shuttle program is historic, it is also expected — the workhorse of the American […]

“WHO DAT SAY THEY GONNA BEAT DEM SAINTS!?” Everyone stared. I had just walked into my school bar, clad in gold sequin pants, black knee-high socks, gold tennis shoes, a black shirt and a gold top hat. It’s rough being so enthused for a game when everyone else seems to be just mildly excited. While […]

Between winning the Super Bowl and electing a new mayor, New Orleans seems to be a much more unified place as of last weekend.  Both have brought people together across the racial divide. The record-setting crowds at the Super Bowl Parade last Tuesday attest to this fact, with some estimates of attendance as high as […]

Welcome to the Valentine’s Day edition of the Hullabaloo, our annual Sex Issue. We’ve got news articles discussing student pregnancy and dating, a views article on seduction as social currency, a letter to the editor about providing more services to pregnant students, an arcade sex toy review, arcade Valentine’s Day features and a sports section […]

A couple of weeks ago a group of girls in my Spanish class were all a-flutter over DJ Pauly D. Apparently, he was coming to the Boot.  I felt like a nerd. I didn’t know this DJ Pauly D? I dared not ask the girls. With the way they were talking about him, I’m pretty […]

Seduction is an often-overlooked component of social status. It’s usually — and wrongly — reduced to conversations about sex and promiscuity. It’s better, however, to look at it the other way.
Exciting the passions and desires of an object of your affection is no simple task. Our arsenals contain multiple kinds of feints, misdirects, taunts and p-p-p-poker […]

First off, I am not what you would call a good New Orleanian. I don’t eat seafood, I don’t like Mardi Gras, I don’t especially care for jazz and I never watch Saints games. (Not that I have anything in particular against the Saints, I just never watch sports).
That being said, that was a hell of […]

This past winter break I traveled to Israel to have a firsthand educational experience in a land I had heard much about but didn’t understand.
I traveled with a group of 18 university students involved in their campus’ student media organizations with Project Interchange, a group that connects leaders and policymakers from around the world with Israel.
While almost […]

In the past two weeks, I have read works by Adam Smith, John Stuart Mills and Karl Marx. While I do not agree with everything — and in some cases anything — these economists, political scientists and philosophers have written, their writings have one thing in common: They take dizzyingly complex ideas and simplify them […]

Still being relatively new at Tulane, it sure hasn’t taken me a long time to realize that the administration is very adamant in promoting Tulane as a generous and giving institution in the city of New Orleans and elsewhere around the world. One year ago, I found out that Tulane had implemented the two-tier […]

Dear Mr. Silberman,
First off, I enjoy your David Brooksesque views articles, if I don’t nearly always agree with them. They’re original enough that I feel I’ve not read other renditions of the same.
But down to brass tacks. The argument you make in “Existential Despair and Avatar” is a specifically modern (post-industrial revolution) one with an […]

This Sunday in New Orleans, all people young and old will be glued to their TVs to cheer on the black and gold.
Victory or defeat, no one will be quiet; not even Breesus can stop the riot. Tulane students shall be at the Boot or
wherever there’s booze, to drink, drink and drink, whether the Saints […]

If you have followed any news in the past two weeks, you may be surprised to learn that, in fact, corporations have not, in fact, brainwashed you with political advertisements. Not yet.
The New York Times is certain that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission “has thrust politics back to the […]

I had the privilege to get to know Sule Osagiede during the past year and a half, in his time here at Tulane. When I heard the news of Sule’s death I was horrified, stricken. I was angry. I had dark moments of sadness. Despair. Most of all, though, I was confused.
Complete and utter confusion is […]