Discuss “Hullabaloo over the Hullabaloo”

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, competition between Tulane?s student newspaper, the Tulane Hullabaloo, and The New Wave, written by professional staff employed by the university, created quite a hullabaloo. According to an editorial published Oct. 14 by the Hullabaloo staff, the Hullabaloo believes that Tulane?s administration created the New Wave with the intention of passing off what was a glorified newsletter as the main newspaper in connection with the school, and in the process undermined the Hullabaloo?s journalistic integrity.

According to the staff editorial, The New Wave is heavily biased in favor of the administration, highlighting only positive progress made since the disaster. The Hullabaloo staff acknowledges that other universities...