Hancock Horizon Burkenroad fund uses classroom analysis. more >>

As if there weren't any bigger problems in the world, Tulane students are reporting a weed shortage on campus. more >>

Murder is bad in itself, but what brought top Louisiana state officials to a table to talk about it Wednesday was the effects it's having on local universities' retention and admissions rates. New Orleans saw 162 murders in 2006 and eight more as of today, the Loyola Maroon reports. more >>

One thankful benefactor of Katrina rebuilding: Tulane's rollerblading "minstrel," who writes with gratitude in The Hullabaloo. Down the road, another student paper in New Orleans, Loyola University's Maroon, tells the story behind a basketball player's tattoo--a tragedy that proved, for him at least, far more life-changing than Katrina. more >>

Administrators who worried about Tulane University's first post-Katrina freshman class are no longer worried--not even close, the Hullabaloo reports. Ivy League schools are about to get bigger, both in physical space and number of students, says the Daily Pennsylvanian. more >>