Week One!

Seaux much went down at Tulane last week and over the weekend! On Friday, we officially moved in the largest freshman class that Tulane has ever seen and they've hit the ground running this week in their classes. I always love the excitement you see on campus in the first week of school.

Lots went down last week during Explore, Greenie Camp, Move in Day, etc. I'll take you on a photo journey. Let's go!

Yes, I am biased. but I think Greenie Camp is the best of the best of the pre-move in day activities. Where else can you eat breakfast at the President's home and then hatch baby alligators the same day?

And top it all off with a great dinner at Commander's Palace? Here is the GC staff and Orientation Coordinators 

With two of my favorite New Orleans first year students, Bri and Jeremy 

Here is the Hollywood South NOLA track in Jackson Square. 

Here's the Lagniappe track led by none other than TulaneOwen

Hollywood South @ Second Line Stages, where American Horror Story and Django Unchained were filmed. 

And then it was move in day! I moved myself in. 

Here I am with a few of my Los Angeles first year students. 

And here is Team Admission helping our students move in

Some of the Sig Ep guys helping move. 

Here I am with Smita, the Assistant VP of Student Life. We got to co-MC the Welcome to the Wave event. It was the first time the class of 2020 would all be in the same place together as a class. It was awesome getting to be the hype man! 

From there, things just kept rolling. I spent the day Sunday around an hour west of New Orleans in Denham Springs. You probably have heard all about the historic flooding that affected parts of Louisiana this month. There is a lot of work to be done to get the 40,000 displaced families back on track; believe it or not, this is the worst US disaster since Superstorm Sandy. Across the board, Tulane's been doing some work to help people get back on their feet. Yesterday, Tulane got ranked the #1 school in America for students involved in community service, so when I headed out to help gut flooded homes in Denham Springs, I wasn't surprised to meet a group of 15 students from the Kappa Sig chapter at Tulane assisting a family with their demolition work. The group I went with was filled with Tulane medical school students there to lend a hand; we went up with GoodWood NOLA, founded by Mike Dalle, one of my Tulane fraternity brothers.

If you are here in NOLA and want to help, there are many ways to get involved but the two best things you can do are monetary donations or heading out there to help gut some homes. The Tulane link can help connect you.

Tulane Kappa Sig

Here is our GoodWood NOLA group

Gutting

Cleanin' up 

Reminded me a lot of post Katrina NOLA

But people are in good spirits, despite the food. Here is Penny and her husband Keith, who despite losing everything in the flood, were kind, happy and welcoming. We spent the day gutting their home and salvaging what we could.