Tulane Hullabaloo

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, although there is debate on tis point, with some claiming the actualy founding date as 1905. The Friday publication of each edition is memorialized among Tulane students in the popular shirts worn by staff members reading "We put out on Fridays".

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.

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

Other notable Hullabaloo contributors

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

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