As the Campus Services Coordinator for the middle-southern region of the country, I've gotten used to easily finding conservatives on campus. Tulane University was a different story.

This fact became clear just as soon as I walked onto campus. I saw several messages for the Green Club and Planned Parenthood student groups chalked along the major walkway in front of the student center building. Attached to the light poles were signs for "2 Million Clean Energy Jobs Now" with a flier for a climate concert attached to it. You can see photos for yourself below.

I was surprised to learn that there is actually a self-described "underground" conservative group that started out as a support group but wants to get more active. One of the leaders of the group told me that 20% of the students at Tulane are native Louisianans and the rest are from the east and west coasts. That explains a lot!

TJ O'Sullivan of  The Virginia Informer, an independent conservative student newspaper, exposed a potential contract that could harm the ability of student publications to receive university funding. Campus reformers interested in bringing an independent voice to their campus should take advantage of our Student Publications Workshop and personal advice and support from CampusReform.org staff.

The Senate Policy Committee met on Sunday, February 21st with Vice President Ryan Ruzic to discuss the content of upcoming Publication Council Contract negotiations. The Publication Council serves to "provide guidance and financial supervision for undergraduate and graduate student publications," and draws its funding from the Student Assembly.

The first major area of discussion revolved around lowering the cap on the Consolidated Student Publications Reserve Fund. As it stands now, the cap is set at $100,000. Currently, the account is valued at roughly $83,000 with the Student Assembly favoring lowering the cap to $50, 000 or less. Senator Eric Scalzo (J.D.) suggested a two year "spend-down" period in order to allow for the account to meet the final cap.