The Tulane Hullabaloo is the weekly student-run newspaper of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is published every Friday of the academic year, except on holidays. The Hullabaloo was founded in 1909. A student newspaper is a newspaper run by university or high or middle school students that covers local and in particular school or university news. ... Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... Nickname: The Crescent City, The Big Easy, The City That Care Forgot, The Dirty Dirty Motto: Official website: http://www. ... An academic term is the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. ...

The university's mascot and nickname, the Green Wave, owes its origins to a song published in the Hullabaloo in October 1920. The paper's editor at the time, Earl Sparling, wrote and published a football song called "The Rolling Green Wave" in support of the "Olive and Blue" (as the team was officially known at the time). Within a month, the Hullabaloo started referring to the university's teams by the new nickname, a practice that was soon picked up by the daily press. Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...

Well-known editors

• In the 1920s F. Edward Hebert was the first sports editor of the Hullabaloo
• In the 1930s Hale Boggs was at one time the paper's editor

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Other notable Hullabaloo contributors

• John Kennedy Toole did a series of cartoons for the Hullabaloo while at Tulane

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External links and sources

• The Tulane Hullabaloo
• Tulane's Nickname and Mascot, from Tulane's official athletic website
• 1969 F. Edward Hebert Oral History Interview (in PDF format), from the LBJ Library and Museum