Student organizers pass USG bill calling for $240-per-student equity fee
Staff Report
October 30, 2019
Tonight, a resolution to establish an equity fee at Tulane University was passed by the Undergraduate Student Government. The resolution, which passed 24-6 with one abstention, calls for a fee that would increase tuition by $240 per student to help fund areas on campus that are dedicated to supporting Black and other marginalized students. The bill was authored by Les Griots Violets, a coalition of students organizing arou...
African American Women’s Society shapes new space for black women at Tulane
Lauren Flowers, Contributing Reporter
October 3, 2018
Though Tulane is focusing on increasing racial diversity year by year, black students still make up a relatively small demographic at the university — less than 9 percent, according to Tulane’s most recently released statistics. Given these numbers, it can be easy to feel out of place in Tulane’s predominantly white commun...
Marginalized communities respond to sexual assault climate survey results
Josh Axelrod, Sanjali De Silva, and Sophia Mariani
February 8, 2018
After five months of waiting and speculating, students gathered to hear the results of the Sexual Assault Climate Survey. The doors of Kendall Cram Lecture Room opened at 4:30 p.m. By 4:39 p.m. all 400 seats were taken. Beginning at 5 p.m. and going more than an hour over its scheduled end time, the town hall last We...
