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,...

The Tulane University Police Department is preparing to ensure student safety in the Broadway Street corridor during Mardi Gras after a recent rise in crime near campus continues to concern students...

Mardi Gras in New Orleans is like no other holiday. And to many Tulane students, it’s like Christmas morning. Students run around as if their heads had been chopped off. They search for outfits, buy...

You can feel it in the air — the flustered excitement has already begun; Mardi Gras is coming, and we all know it. Whether you are a seasoned veteran or a nervous newbie, there is no denying the thrill...

When the Tulane University community received the email notifying that the mask mandate would be lifted the week after the first Mardi Gras in two years, some were wary.  There was no way that...

In the days and weeks leading up to Mardi Gras’ annual celebration, Tulane University students may have been found preparing colorful, sequined outfits, making sleeping arrangements for visiting...

New Orleans’ Mardi Gras festivities are steeped in tradition and historicity, and for the thousands of visitors that line Saint Charles Avenue, beads are intrinsic to the Carnival experience. But...

Dare I say, HBO’s coincidental timing for its season two drop of the popular show, just a month before parades begin rolling again, is going to be the most-pinned aesthetic on everybody’s Mardi Gras...

With Carnival season finally upon New Orleans, the waning but still-present threat of COVID-19 has Tulane University preparing for this year’s Mardi Gras with optimism and caution.   After...

Students at Tulane University are already beginning to prepare for what many likely consider the most exciting days of the year: Mardi Gras.  To celebrate this anticipated holiday, students at...

Tulane University’s current seven-day average percentage of positive tests is 6.1%, which is slightly lower than New Orleans’ positivity rate of 7.2%. Since testing resumed at the start of the...

New Orleans’ Carnival season is a time of unparalleled decadence and merriment. Mardi Gras is the fullest expression of the Big Easy’s let-the-good-times-roll mantra. However, what makes the season...