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Ebola conspiracy theories spreading fast as outbreak travels round globe - was deadly virus created in laboratory?Conspiracy theories about Ebola are spreading as fast as the killer virus itself. And with no known cure or vaccine, its potential origins vary wildly from it being a CIA-manufactured weapon to a cover for "cannibalistic rituals." Angry crowds in Africa have also accused foreigners of bringing the virus into the country. In April, the threat of violence forced Medecins Sans Frontieres to evacuate all its staff from a treatment centre in Guinea. In Sierra Leone, which has the largest number of Ebola cases,...

O'Keefe verbally attack by evidently irate Assistant Dean at Tulane

n artist has created a sketch of the mysterious "angel priest" who witnesses say appeared at the scene of a Missouri car accident Sunday, anointed and prayed with the teenage victim and then vanished without a trace. Fox4KC reports Tucson-based artist Randall Sands created the sketch using online face sketch software at facesid.com based on media reports, hoping someone would be able to identify the cleric. Officials are still scratching their heads over the priest, who they say appeared out of nowhere. Perhaps more mysteriously, the local fire chief said he does not appear in any of 80 photos from...

RUSH: Melissa Harris-Perry is a professor. I believe she's at Tulane. It's a major university, wherever she teaches. She's an African-American professor at Tulane. That's right. She also has a show on PMSNBC. Of course they've got this slogan over there called "Lean Forward" or some such thing. Hosts of their shows are cutting promos that they run on the network, and last week they began airing a new Lean Forward promo for her show, which airs on the weekends. This is that promo. HARRIS-PERRY: We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've...

CampusReform.org released a list this month revealing a strong liberal bias among undergraduate universities’ commencement speakers. The data shows that for every four liberal commencement speakers this spring, there is one conservative speaker. The study looked at 160 universities. Liberal names on the speaking list include Vice President Al Gore, President Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama, Alec Baldwin, Nancy Pelosi, Sonia Sotomayor, Rachel Maddow, David Brooks and First Lady Michelle Obama. “With the Obama administration being in power, obviously more high government officials are liberal,” CampusReform.org Communications Director Bonnie Kristian said. “Yet there are an abundance of conservative and libertarian...

Even though he was focused on making a better life for himself, Brandon Spincer always made time for kids. The former Tulane University football star worked with the children of Boys and Girls Town. He doled out his tickets to home football games to youngsters from troubled neighborhoods. And in the end, it would be his adopted families at Tulane and St. Augustine High School that would rally around his parents, his two children and other relatives after Spincer, 24, was cut down in a jealous rage Monday night. Authorities said Steve Adams, 25, of Algiers ambushed Spincer, killing him...

Scientists have used stem cells from human bone marrow to repair defective insulin-producing pancreatic cells responsible for diabetes in mice. The treatment also halted damage to the kidneys caused by the condition. Researchers from New Orleans' Tulane University are hopeful it can be adapted to treat diabetes in humans. The study, featured in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was welcomed as "interesting work" by Diabetes UK. Stem cells are immature cells which have the capacity to turn into any kind of tissue in the body. The US team treated diabetic mice who had high blood sugar and damaged...

NEW ORLEANS -- Here's a tip: If you're a college football recruiting junkie, think again before following in lockstep praise over the talent haul of Notre Dame, USC and Florida. Let's see who really develops into the five-star players down the road, anyway. And who couldn't draw impressionable kids to those locales? Now, if the idea is to make this a reality check and toss in dicey obstacles, nobody in the college game pulled in a better class than Chris Scelfo and his Tulane coaching staff. According to the self-ordained experts, they landed an assortment of gritty, two-star athletes. There...

Tulane to lay off hundreds Academic, sports programs to be cut Friday, December 09, 2005 By John Pope Staff writer Despite attracting 85 percent of its Hurricane Katrina-scattered students back to campus in January, Tulane on Thursday announced an unprecedented restructuring of one of the nation's most prestigious universities, including layoffs, cuts or consolidations in colleges and academic programs, and the elimination of eight sports as the institution grapples with $200 million in storm-related losses.

NEW ORLEANS -- Battered by Hurricane Katrina, Tulane University announced a major downsizing that will eliminate the jobs of a third of its medical-school faculty, do away with 22 programs of study and suspend eight sports. "We are determined to find opportunity in the face of adversity," said Tulane President Scott S. Cowen, who in recent weeks has been visiting displaced Tulane students around the country to encourage them to return to the school next year. Tulane officials said the restructuring is necessary because of $200 million in storm recovery costs this year and a "significant" budget shortfall projected for...

  Some New Orleans college students don't want to return The Associated Press Stephanie Swisher is settling in nicely as a freshman at the University of Virginia, enjoying classes, Naval ROTC, club volleyball and football Saturdays. Amy McClendon, a Tulane freshman from Amite, La., ended up at Harvard University after Hurricane Katrina. Bizuayehu Tesfaye, AP Things are going so well, in fact, that she would rather not return to Tulane University in New Orleans — the school she had expected to attend until Hurricane Katrina struck. "The argument that everyone's giving me is that I'm a freshman so I've...

Stephanie Swisher is settling in nicely as a freshman at the University of Virginia, enjoying classes, Naval ROTC, club volleyball and football Saturdays. Things are going so well, in fact, that she would rather not return to Tulane University in New Orleans -- the school she had expected to attend until Hurricane Katrina struck. "The argument that everyone's giving me is that I'm a freshman so I've never known Tulane, I need to give it a chance,'" she said. "My argument is, why should I have to?" But Swisher probably will have to give Tulane a chance. Despite her wishes...

The Louisiana Superdome could be ready to host Saints football games as early as next October, officials said Thursday. Workers line the top of the Superdome to put on the patches to holes in the roof that occurred during Katrina. The holes in the roof have been patched and work is proceeding with the idea that the Saints will remain tenants. In addition to fixing the problems from Katrina, officials are considering improvements with the NFL team in mind. The improvements would include more suites and more premium seats on the sidelines. “We are operating under the premise we are...

Houston schools take in displaced college students Aubrey Phillips scanned the large hall for familiar faces Saturday morning. In almost no time, she spotted someone from a Spanish class and a guy who took math with her last year. Phillips expected to see people she knew while registering for classes at Rice University, but it still seemed a bit odd, she said. Two weeks ago, they were moving into dormitory rooms at Tulane University in anticipation of a new school year. Now they are at a university they did not want but seemed grateful to have in the wake of...

A typical orientation for a first-year Texas Tech student might include the identification cards, campus maps, and traffic and parking speech that were given to Tulane University student athletes - but it's not every day student body president Nathan Nash puts his cell phone number on a dry erase board in a room full of people. At the Marsha Sharp Center for Student Athletes Wednesday, several different departments from around campus sent people to welcome Tulane student athletes, coaches and staff in a quick orientation to Tech. "It's certainly a slam-dunk orientation," said John Anderson, associate director of athletics. "It's...

Jewish Agency to bring New Orleans college students to study in Israel September 7th, 2005 JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - PRESS RELEASE JEWISH AGENCY TO BRING STUDENTS FROM NEW ORLEANS TO STUDY IN ISRAEL Tulane University in New Orleans with an enrollment of thousands of students has been flooded as a result of Hurricane Katrina. All Israeli Universities have responded positively to this Jewish Agency initiative and will accept students by an accelerated procedure for the new academic year. Thousands of students including 2,000 Jewish students from the disaster stricken New Orleans area will be able to continue their studies...

Freshman Jennifer Powell had just moved into her dorm room at Tulane University in New Orleans when the announcement came: Go home. So she packed three days' worth of clothes and drove out of New Orleans, expecting to be back in Louisiana within the week. Instead, Powell, 18, was signing up for courses at San Diego State University on Friday, one of scores of displaced students being taken in by California colleges, part of a nationwide effort to deal with the fallout from Hurricane Katrina. "It has been a roller coaster ride," said Powell, who's from Northridge. San Diego State...

http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20219 Hostage Situation in New Orleans -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just a heads up, armed looters have taken over one of the medical centers in New Orleans where the injured people were being sent. They are holding the entire staff of the hospital hostage and firing at the national guard. An FBI SWAT team has just been flown in (from Baton Rouge I believe) and they are just now getting situated. I'm not sure of any online scanners that are up monitoring the state trs. That is where alot of traffic is going on at. LSP Troop B is requesting immediate backup. Troopers,...

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 30-While most of New Orleans headed for high ground as Hurricane Katrina roared toward this city, the staff at Tulane University Hospital, anticipating flooding, also moved the emergency department to higher ground -- the second floor. Not enough. Not nearly enough. By day's end Tuesday the 1,000-bed hospital was evacuating all patients and staffers. "Everyone," said hospital vice-president Karen Troyer-Carawy. A 200-foot long breach in the 17th Street Canal levee near Lake Pontchartrain sent water pouring onto the streets, spilling miles in all directions, inundating at least 80% of the Crescent City, and causing water at the...