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''The Tulane Hullabaloo'' is the weekly student-run newspaper of
Tulane University Tulane University, officially the Tulane University of Louisiana, is a private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by seven young medical doctors, it turned into a comprehensive pub ...
in
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. The Tulane Hullabaloo is also self-funded by selling advertisements to business owners and other organizations on the self-serve advertising platform. The Tulane Hullabaloo publishes its print edition once a month. It has received multiple Pacemaker Awards, the highest award in college journalism.


History

''The Tulane Weekly'' began in 1905 to rival ''The Olive and Blue,'' another Tulane newspaper that dates back to 1896. (There were more Tulane newsletters and newspapers before ''The Olive and Blue'' named ''College Spirit,'' ''Collegian,'' ''Topics'' and ''The Rat.'') The first issue of ''The Tulane Weekly'' was published on November 8, 1905 and stated that "the organization of this paper is the result of a dispute between the student body and a few individuals at ''The Olive and Blue''. If a few students have a right to publish a periodical under the name of the University, and represent it as a student publication when the students have no voice in its management; then this paper has no right to an existence." There is no record of ''The Olive and Blue'' after 1906. ''The Tulane Weekly'' changed its name to ''The Hullabaloo'' on January 16, 1920. A staff editorial titled "Note: Please Send Your Dollars to The Hullabaloo" appeared in the first issue and stated "The staff favors the new name because it is representative of Tulane and is original above all else." The paper still retains this name. Tulane University's mascot and nickname, the
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, 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.


Notable contributors

*
Felix Edward Hébert Felix may refer to: * Felix (name), people and fictional characters with the name Places * Arabia Felix is the ancient Latin name of Yemen * Felix, Spain, a municipality of the province Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, ...
, Louisiana's longest-serving member in the
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, was ''The Hullabaloos first sports editor. *
John Kennedy Toole John Kennedy Toole (; December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana whose posthumously published novel, ''A Confederacy of Dunces'', won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981; he also wrote '' The N ...
, author of ''
A Confederacy of Dunces ''A Confederacy of Dunces'' is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's death. Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a foreword) ...
'', served as ''The Hullabaloos cartoonist in 1956.


Awards and accolades

'17 Pacemaker Finalist, ACP & NAAF
'13 National Pacemaker, ACP & NAAF
'13 Pacemaker Finalist, ACP & NAAF
'11 Pacemaker Finalist, ACP & NAAF
'09 Best of Show: Seventh Place, ACP
'09 Online Pacemaker, ACP
'05 Best of Show: First Place, ACP
'02 National Pacemaker, ACP & NAAF
'02 Pacemaker Finalist, ACP & NAAF
'00 Best of Show: Fourth Place, ACP
'00 Newspaper of the Year: Honorable Mention, ACP
'99 General Excellence Newspaper, LPA
'98 Pacemaker Finalist, ACP & NAAF
'96 National Pacemaker, ACP & NAAF
'94 National Pacemaker, ACP & NAAF
'94 Pacemaker Finalist, ACP & NAAF
'93 National Pacemaker, ACP & NAAF
'92 Best Newspaper, SPJ
'91 Best of Show: Fourth Place, ACP
'90 Regional Pacemaker: Southeast Region, ACP & ANPA
'90 Critique Medalist: Columbia University Annual Contest, CSPA
'90 All American Newspaper, ACP
'89 National Pacemaker, ACP & NAAF
'89 First Place: Columbia University Annual Contest, CSPA
'89 All American Newspaper, ACP
'88 All American Newspaper, ACP
'80 National Pacemaker, ACP & NAAF
'79 National Pacemaker, ACP & NAAF ACP: Associated Collegiate Press
NAAF:
Newspaper Association of America Foundation A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports an ...

LPA: Louisiana Press Association
SPJ: Society of Professional Journalists
ANPA:
American Newspaper Publishers Association The News Media Alliance (formerly known as the Newspaper Association of America until 2016Columbia Scholastic Press Association The Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) is an international student press association, founded in 1925, whose goal is to unite student journalists and faculty advisers at schools and colleges through educational conferences, idea exchang ...


External links and sources


''The Tulane Hullabaloo''Tulane University
from Tulane's official athletic website
1969 F. Edward Hebert Oral History Interview
(in
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), from the LBJ Library and Museum {{Tulane University Tulane University Student newspapers published in Louisiana Newspapers published in New Orleans