Talk:Tulane University

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I was thinking of trying to find additional images for this page and perhaps add a student life section. Any thoughts?

If someone can take and upload some good photos they're willing to release under GFDL or similar free licence, those would be welcome. -- Infrogmation 17:20, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
I normally attend Loyola, right next door to Tulane. Once I get back to Loyola in January I could probably get some pictures of the two schools.Kevin M Marshall 02:40, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Future?

Any idea of what will become of this and all the other colleges now that they've been flooded? Jarwulf 06:25, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

The article has a link to emergency.tulane.edu which has as much information as feasible for now. Dystopos 14:27, 31 August 2005 (UTC)


The Univ. of Maine Farmington is seeking to fill an immediate interim opening for a certified athletic trainer. We are vigorously looking into being able to offer temporary housing for a trainer displaced by the hurricane but don't know where to post this so they could find out. I would think other campuses might have similar opportunities for temp/interim employment, that could offer a housing benefit not usually available. Is there a web site to facilitate this type of interest/assistance? Please direct answers/resumes to jadavis@maine.edu

[edit] NPOV

The article says, "The Green Wave entered the postseason ranked No. 1 and beat Rice University in a thrilling game to win its Super Regional." The use of the word "thrilling" makes this not an NPOV. Whether a game is thrilling or not is your own opinion not an objective fact. I don't have the time or the care to go through the article searching for and correcting other errors but maybe someone else does. 129.81.212.204 16:48, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

  • OK. Thanks for the detailed report. --Dystopos 19:02, 16 January 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Advice for incoming students

33% of students at Tulane have an STD. This is above the national average, and a good thing to keep in mind. The most prevalent STDs on campus are HPV (Genital Warts) is the most common (50% of students tested have this), followed by Chlamydia (10%) and Genital Herpes (8%).

from the College Prowler guidebook, Tulane University - Off the Record -- unsigned comment by User:205.201.29.200

  • The same page mentions that "Mugar Memorial Library" is a "Top Place to Find Hotties". Boston might be a bit of a haul just for a hook-up. Not sure how reliable this source is, but feel free to add cited info if you like. --Dystopos 22:57, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

What do STDS have to do with this Wiki entry?

[edit] infobox

If it's okay, I've replaced the custom table, with the standard Template:Infobox_University. As you can see, the syntax much easier with the infobox. But no doubt, the template is work-in-progress. Any edits you think you are necessary to the infobox, you should bring up at the talk page. --Ttownfeen 18:07, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation?

I've always wondered, is it pronounced more like TUH-LANE or TWO-LANE?


I've noticed that people from Louisiana tend to pronounce it TWO-lane, whereas students who come from the northeast will say it more like "T'lane." -- Tulane97 20:06, 8 April 2006 (UTC)


Both are right.

I'm from Baton Rouge, although my entire family's from New Orleans, and I never heard it called "T'lane" until I heard northerners call it that. Locals tend to call it "two-lane" --Bobster687 03:32, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I live near Tulane and formerly worked there. "Two-lane" is certainly closer, though the "u" sound to my ears is just slightly softer than in the word "Two". -- Infrogmation 01:10, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PECKER?

No one calls Riptide pecker, I don't know who put that but it may be a penis joke.

Also, no refences to Harvard: the Tulane of the North - a common saying amongst New Orleanians, that's odd. It's one of the more fun things you hear about the University.

  • I don't think that "_____ is the Harvard of the South"/"Harvard is the _____ of the North" is restricted to Tulane. --Dystopos 13:44, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

really? I've not heard it about any other school. I first heard the saying in New York however. What other Universities does this saying apply to? I can think of a few that deserve it more than Tulane may now, but historically, I'm not sure.

Pecker is the name of a different mascot then Riptide. Pecker is an inflatable suit with the image of a sneering pelican. Pecker gets his name from the fact the operator of the suit can smack people with his beak with virtually no distress to his victim because its filled with air. He's most often seen at football games.

How about we all shut up and just get along? Also, keep the Saved By The Bell references to a minimal or at elast to second period, please.74.195.3.11 04:10, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Pecker was, if I recall, a popular write-in suggestion for the name of the new pelican mascot when it was introduced in 1995 or so. (My suggestion was to just keep the name "Gumby", but what do I know.) --Dystopos 05:16, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Frasier

There was an episode of Frasier where he implied that Niles' surgeon went to Tulane medical school, and that Frasier was somehow not happy about that, saying only "and I think you all know how I feel about Tulane's medical school." [2]. I don't know if there's anything more about Tulane in the series than that.

p.s. it's TWO-lane.

[edit] Movie Premiere

The world premiere of All the King's Men was actually at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 10, six days before the Tulane premiere. [3] It surprises me like, not at all, how everyone at the Hullabaloo paper seemed to missed that fact. Call it the US premiere, or the Tulane premiere, or the New Orleans premiere, or the BS premiere. Here's another link. [4]

[edit] Tulane only university to go from being public to private?

Is it true that Tulane is the only school in the US to have been converted from a state university to a private university? This is mentioned in the Ford Commencement address, and I was wondering if it is still true or if another school has done so since then or something. If Tulane is still the only school, I think it should be mentioned in the opening paragraph. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 34african34 (talk • contribs) 05:09, 7 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Tulane/Jewish ties

I know this person from Louisiana that swears up and down that Tulane is a Jewish University. I have never found any evidence of that myself -- no claim from the University, no record of it in the University's history, nothing that even could be mistaken for sectarian ties, Jewish or otherwise. There was some mention of anti-semitism long ago, which is the only tie-in. Do other people think there's some Jewish tie? Where does this idea come from? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Infomaniac8 (talk • contribs) 22:56, 26 February 2007 (UTC).

There is a large Jewish student population, but no official connection. Historically the student body has been about 1/3 Jewish and 1/3 Catholic. Tulane97 23:24, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

  • There are ties to prominent Jewish individuals which date back to the University's role as the Medical College of Louisiana, but no ties to Judaism as such. (See Avron Fogelman, Judah Touro, Ben Wiener, Sam Zemurray et al) --Dystopos 23:48, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tulane Trivia, Myth, and Lore

  • This section is almost entirely NOT encyclopedic. If there's a citable source for any of this stuff, then bring it. Otherwise I'll be purging it in the very near future. --Dystopos 22:06, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
    • I've brought back everything that I could find with a reference; however, all the facts listed on there before were true. Unfortunately, by the very definitions of "myth" and "lore," these things may not be facts but are, in fact, common rumors, so they fit in this category well. I'll be searching for written Ambassadors' guides because the Green Wave Ambassadors tell most of these things to their tour groups, including most that have been deleted. --Bobster687 21:26, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
      • There is no place in this encyclopedia for "common rumors" (See WP:A). In the interest of compromise I have taken the time to rewrite those items from this section which can be verified through the citations you have found. This does not mean that all this trivia belongs in an encyclopedia article, but I'll let the wider community of editors take their shot at incorporating it. --Dystopos 18:27, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
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