Tulane TIDES class More Than Just Business plans to send a souped-up golf cart from New York City to New Orleans as part of the Big Easy Go project. The project will leave New York City on Aug. 29 and return to New Orleans on Sept. 7. Adjunct Professor Gregory Thurnher teaches the TIDES class and drove the first golf cart from Los Angeles to New Orleans last summer.
The proposed Undergraduate Student Government budget for 2008-09 does not allocate the Office of Student Programs a share of the student activity fee. This ends a long tradition of cost recovery, in which the office requests a portion of the student activity fee to cover the cost of services they provided to the student body.
Forty-two portraits lined the steps of Pocket Park on Tuesday evening in memory of those who lost their lives during university shootings in the past year. Approximately 40 students and community members attended the candlelight vigil, during which Tulane President Scott Cowen and three graduate and undergraduate students spoke.
This week's Tibetan Culture Fair celebrated the culture of Tibet while raising awareness about the Chino-Tibetan polemic. The Tibet Association of Tulane University organized the event in conjunction with Tulane's School of Social Work, Tulanians could find information display boards in the Pedersen Lobby and a shrine to the Dalai Lama in Nalty Commons as they walked into the Lavin-Bernick Center during the weeklong fair.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened a spillway from the Mississippi River into Lake Pontchartrain on April 11 for the first time in 11 years to reduce pressure on local levees and slow the flow of the river. This pressure has been caused by heavy rain around the Mississippi River Valley.
Nearly 40 million people live with HIV/AIDS around the world, with 25 million of those in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS killed two million people in 2007, and 72 percent of those killed were from southern Africa. The students who lead the Tulane chapter of FACE AIDS, a national student organization, are determined to do their part and help stop this epidemic.
Wheel of Fortune's Wheelmobile plans to host auditions tomorrow and Sunday at Harrah's for the first time since Katrina. People from New Orleans and the surrounding area can go to the Harrah's downtown and participate in auditions for free. Applications go out at 11 a.
Lafayette, La. will be transformed during the 22nd annual Festival International de Louisiane, a mélange of music, art, shopping and food, this Sunday to Wednesday. More than 1,500 volunteers, 26 board members, four seasonal consultants and three full-time employees have been working on the festival for months.
The Cheffen Wilson Milton Foundation held its second Art of Modeling Education Fashion Show on Saturday. The fashion show raised money for first-time college students from low-income backgrounds. Nearly all of the models, staff and designers are current students or recent graduates, and many are from local colleges such as Tulane, Xavier, Dillard and University of New Orleans.
Emily Beasley contributing writer This week marks the beginning of local Louisiana musician Andrew Jasmine, Sr.'s campaign to raise money for the Catholic Foundation of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Jasmine plans to generate donations for his "Nationwide Fund-raiser Mission and Cause" through sale of his original album, "Katrina Why You Did This To Us?" After hours of planning, his 34-minute album is available via digital download for $.
Vagina lovers from all over the world met at the Superdome to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Vagina Monologues last weekend. Over 30,000 people packed the Superdome for the two days of festivities. Profits from the event went toward helping women in the post-Katrina New Orleans and Gulf South region.
Trailer lawsuits filed in East Jefferson Parish East Jefferson Parish property holders who haven't yet disposed of their post-Katrina trailers were served with lawsuits Thursday by parish lawyers. Forty-two property holders in Elmwood, Old Jefferson and Metairie received suits.
Off-Campus Incident Tulane University Police Department officials were called to an off-campus residence the evening of April 10. The reporting individual and his roommate told officers that they heard the downstairs entrance door open and close several times from the second floor apartment, and observed an unidentified black male run out the front door downstairs.
Crawfest Undergraduate Student Government and the Graduate and Professional Student Association are hosting the Crawfest Music Festival and Crawfish Boil tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The event is free of charge and open to the public. USG will provide 12,000 pounds of free crawfish, live local music, local food, crafts and art vendors.
Controversy ensues over election Zimbabwe's government claims that the opposition party conspired with Britain to skew national elections and defeat President Robert Mugabe. Zimbabwe's justice minister calls the plan an act of treason. The South African government is trying to intervene and is demanding to see election results, but the opposition wants them to bow out.