Also in this issue
- Crescent City Connections
- Renewal: Community Focus and Partnerships
- Why We Are Here
- Renewal: Academic Reorganization
- Renewal: Intercollegiate Athletics
- Renewal: The Undergraduate Experience
- Village Voices
- The Torch
- Renewal: New Strategy for the School of Medicine
- With a Little Help
- Recovery and Reconstruction
- Focused on the Light
- Shelter from the Storm
- Through Hell and High Water
- Tulanians Reach Out
- From Survival to Renewal
- Newcomb Redefined
- Riders on the Storm
- Healthcare Heroes
- Researchers to the Rescue
- More from the Tulanian...
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Tulane in the news
- Gambit: Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane
- WVUE-TV: Fishers and coastal restoration
- NOLA.com: Bonnaroo music and arts festival
- NOLA.com: 'Merry Wives of Windsor' opens Tulane summer festival with light but rollicking Shakespeare
- The Advocate: Higher education briefs: Phyllis Taylor, cancer fundraiser, geology award, service award
- Nola.com: Tulane committee is formed to find a successor to President Scott Cowen
- Nola.com: Graduate of Tulane in New Orleans is awarded grant to study in Switzerland
- Fox 8: Geismar disaster: examining the chemicals
- NOLA.com: New Orleans' history shows that culture can be invigorated by new influences: Richard Campanella
- WWL-AM/FM: Tulane med students to learn cooking cures
- More in the news...
The Torch
January 18, 2006
Aaron Martin
amartin4@tulane.edu
Michael DeMocker
When the Tulane community evacuated New Orleans, President Scott Cowen asked the Green Wave athletics teams "to carry the torch, be the face and represent the name" of the university as they continued to compete.
Unprecedented agreements were forged with five Louisiana and Texas universities to host displaced Tulane teams, while the student-athletes enrolled in academic programs at each campus.
"Probably the most heartfelt feeling I've had since I've been in athletics was when I woke up [at Louisiana Tech] and knew that we had a semblance of normalcy back in our lives," said Tulane head football coach Chris Scelfo.
The football team played 11 weekly games at 11 different stadiums. Despite many off-the-field challenges, the team stuck together and claimed a pair of victories while suffering several narrow defeats.
The football team was presented the 2005 Courage Award by the Football Writers Association of America and the FedEx Orange Bowl, and earned the Disney Wide World of Sports Spirit Award.
Tulanian
Winter 2006
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