<p>Gadad, regarding the students living off campus. Just my personal take on that is that Tulane is in the heart of a suburban-like area of New Orleans. Uptown New Orleans is filled with some old, even historic, homes, many of which are rental properties themselves or contain a section of the house that has been converted into an apartment. Most kids choose to rent a house rather than live in a dorm.</p>
<p>Actually, if you are able to, New Orleans is a great place to buy a few pieces of rental property because there are soooo many apartments around and so many of the homes in the area have apartments attached. Some of these were new additions and some had been living quarters for maids, ect. There are two universities (TU and Loyola) right there to have people to rent to as well.</p>
<p>If we weren’t about to move to the Villanova area of Philly my fiance and I were going to look into buying a house with an attached apartment to pay the mortgage. We live across the street from a park now so we’ve kept my place for a couple more years than we had anticipated. Hopefully we’ll like Philly as much as we like this area.</p>
<p>And about the protesting…oh man…where do I start. lol. Fallen is absolutely correct in that while there may be some merit to the protests, there is always a segment of the population (cough, cough)hippies …that come New Orleans to protest and live in a bohemian lifestyle. </p>
<p>When I was a student at TU, the university showed the movie Deepthroat (highly adult content let’s just say) on the school’s McAllister auditorium movie screen and there were protests by some because they said it objectified women. Again, that’s fine and a reasonable argument. But you should have seen the signs accusing everyone who went into the film as condoning rape and saying that the women in the film were actually being raped. </p>
<p>A good friend of mine got together with some folks and made t-shirts donning ‘protest the protest’ with some rather risque stick figures on them to wear as they went in to see the film. I mean it was obviously played by Tulane as part of an effort to make ‘the powers that be’ at university seem less stuck up. It was just a funny tradition but people got way too offended. </p>
<p>I also remember reading about when the 2nd Gulf War broke out and Tulane had a ‘tent city’ where those same people lived in tents on the quad for weeks to protest the war. Tulane as a whole isn’t really that much more liberal than other schools in the South in my opinion. It’s just more accepting of the people that ARE extremely liberal. I’d say it was still a Kerry (over Bush) and Obama (over any republican) crowd, but there are enough people in the middle and enough people on the right that no one could feel isolated because of their political beliefs. </p>
<p>UGA and Tulane are both great schools but they are different. Best of luck and you really can’t go wrong with either.</p>