The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office issued a Public Safety Alert on Monday, warning about the growing presence of “green fentanyl” on the Northshore and in the greater New Orleans area.
“The...
A squat, modern, two-story blue house sits at 2210 Calhoun St. Originally a residential home, this building is the newly renovated Lux Recovery House. With a new $1.5 million gift from Tulane University...
Hundreds of feet from New Orleans City Hall, a six-foot long, collapsible table stands on the grass, alongside a paramedic tent and an impromptu meal station. On Tuesdays around 3 p.m., a rough line...
This article is entirely satire. All information and interviews below are fictional and for entertainment purposes only.
After an unusually high whippit season, involving piñatas, lawn...
During Mardi Gras, small empty canisters litter the street.
For years, nitrous oxide has been used for quick highs. Also known as laughing gas, “whippits” or “womps,” among students,...
Holly Fortner, Contributing Writer
• September 21, 2022
Picture your daily struggles. Perhaps you’re feeling lower than usual for longer periods or can’t seem to talk about your problems naturally. You go to a doctor, get referred to a clinic and suddenly...
Megan Garcia, Intersections Editor
• October 31, 2019
Cocaine is an extremely addictive stimulant that is considered to be a “party drug” across many college campuses in the U.S., including Tulane. Similarly, in movies such as “The Wolf of Wall Street,”...
“When I got to campus, we were gonna pick up some bars from a dealer, and we found out they were laced with fentanyl.”
This is Jeff*, a Tulane freshman from New Jersey talking about his first...
In a televised address in 1989, President George H. W. Bush displayed a bag of cocaine and exposed the nation's opioid epidemic, marking the first strike in what would eventually be dubbed the "War on...
Marijuana has come under attack in 2018, and there does not appear to be an end in sight for both recreational and medicinal users.
On Jan. 4, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rolled back policies the...
"Sexual violence impacts all of us. And we can do something about it," the flyer for the third annual Shifting the Paradigm event reads.
Hosted by Title IX at Tulane and Tulane Campus Health, the event...
In an email sent on Monday to all administrators, faculty, staff and students, Tulane President Michael Fitts and Doug Hertz, chair of the Tulane Board of Trustees, jointly issued "A Special Message on...
