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The Tulane Hullabaloo

Student newspaper serving Tulane University, Uptown New Orleans

The Tulane Hullabaloo

Student newspaper serving Tulane University, Uptown New Orleans

The Tulane Hullabaloo

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Student organization spotlight: Tulane’s Bollywood dance team Jazbaa

Divya Goel, Contributing Writer October 18, 2017

Louisiana now has its very own collegiate Bollywood dance team, and it all started at Tulane. Founded in 2015, Jazbaa is a tight-knit group of young women who love to dance and share Indian culture...

Tulane Campus Health's Notorious B.I.G. flu campaign

Tulane Campus Health’s Notorious B.I.G. flu campaign

Megan Plotka, Contributing Writer October 7, 2017

Tulane has come a long way in reconciling and acknowledging its racist history, but its lack of racially diverse staff and faculty can sometimes result in unintentionally offensive decisions. Currently,...

Slang 101: An intersectional guide to contemporary slang

Slang 101: An intersectional guide to contemporary slang

Jessica Galloway, Intersections Associate Editor October 7, 2017

Every year, dictionaries add new slang words to their catalogues. Slang permeates our everyday lives so deeply that we sometimes don't even realize when we are using it. Tracing the origins of these...

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Kimberlé Crenshaw: race scholar speaks on erasure of women of color

Emily Fornof, Nile Pierre, and Canela Lopez October 4, 2017

"[Intersectionality] has been gentrified in the sense that people to whom it initially designed to recognize have been pushed out of the discourse," Kimberlé Crenshaw said at a lunch for Tulane student...

Intersectional Confessional: Marginalized students reflect on Tulane party culture

Intersectional Confessional: Marginalized students reflect on Tulane party culture

Daniel Horowitz, Canela Lopez, Megan Plotka, and Nile Pierre September 28, 2017

With a recent No. 1 Party School ranking, it cannot be denied that going out at Tulane is a unique experience. For those with identities outside the white straight cis majority, party culture is a different...

This edition of white male privilege brought to you by PewDiePie

This edition of white male privilege brought to you by PewDiePie

Kila Moore, Associate Intersections Editor September 24, 2017

Unless you are 12 and/or still rocking JNCO jeans, it is plausible to believe that the name PewDiePie doesn't ring a bell. PewDiePie, aka Felix Kjellberg, is the biggest YouTuber on the planet, with 57...

Flint water crisis rooted in environmental racism

Flint water crisis rooted in environmental racism

Daniel Horowitz, Senior Staff Writer September 24, 2017

Clean drinking water is a simple necessity about which residents of urban areas in the U.S. do not typically have to worry. For residents of Flint, Michigan, however, clean water can be difficult to...

“All of that is destroyed now”: Tulane feels impact of DACA repeal

“All of that is destroyed now”: Tulane feels impact of DACA repeal

When President Trump announced the repeal of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Tulane undergraduate and DACA beneficiary Jane* said she had little time to feel or panic. Survival was the only thing...

Hashim Walters, mayor for the millennials

Hashim Walters, mayor for the millennials

Nile Pierre, Intersections Editor September 14, 2017

During his sophomore year at Birmingham Southern College, Hashim Walters decided to run for mayor of New Orleans. Two years later, the 22-year-old is the youngest candidate in the 2018 mayoral race and...

Beauty for All: Rihanna's releases inclusive cosmetics line

Beauty for All: Rihanna’s releases inclusive cosmetics line

Emily Fornof, Intersections Editor September 13, 2017

The Bomb has dropped.  The Gloss Bomb from Fenty Beauty, that is.  Not only did Rihanna's new beauty brand release this all-purpose gloss, she has your whole face covered. Branded after Rihanna's...

Painting for the People: Grupo Opni blends Brazilian culture with graffiti art

Painting for the People: Grupo Opni blends Brazilian culture with graffiti art

Emily Fornof, Intersections Editor September 13, 2017

The Hullabaloo's interview with Toddy was translated from Portuguese to English by Annie Gibson. The quotations attributed to Toddy in this article are Gibson's translations.  Toddy and Val are the...

Kendall and Kylie are culture vultures

Kendall and Kylie are culture vultures

Nile Pierre, Intersections Editor September 10, 2017

Kendall and Kylie Jenner are notorious for intertwining themselves into the cracks of black culture. The duo has a reputation for seeing the work of people of color and repackaging it for the consumption...

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