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As we prepare to cast our ballots in November, We’ll ask some of our faculty experts the weigh in on the how’s and whys of the presidential election. For our first installment we asked Celeste Lay, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, to explain the Electoral College.

January is proving to be a particularly rough month on Wall Street with the Dow shedding points at a historic rate. Investors are jittery and wondering if 2016 is setting up to be a rehash of the 2008 crash. To answer these questions and get some perspective on what the market says about the economy, New Wave sat down with Peter Ricchiuti, a professor of practice in the A.B. Freeman School of Business and director of research for the acclaimed Burkenroad Reports program.

On Wed., January 13, 2016, the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University will host a panel on music as an agent in the continuing Civil Rights Movement and advancing cultural equity. The discussion will be led by Gianna Chachere, founder of The New Quorum in New Orleans, with Wall Street Journal jazz critic and writer Larry Blumenfeld, avant-garde jazz pioneer Wadada Leo Smith, and long time civil rights pioneer/activist Roxy Wright.

In this episode of The Green Room, we hear from NOGCS director Rebecca Snedeker, Chachere and Blumenfeld about the work and the history of The New Quorum, which is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to bringing professional musicians and writers from across the globe to New Orleans for meaningful cultural exchange with local and regional artists. Blumenfeld and Wadada Leo Smith are both currently artists-in residence at The New Quorum, located at 2435 Esplanade.

Learn more about The New Quorum residency programs and upcoming events, at the website new quorum.org.

This piece is underscored with music by Wadada Leo Smith. Photo by Scott Groller.

In October China reversed its three-decade-old rule restricting women from having more than one child. There was much talk about the decision and the impact that a possible baby boom in the world’s most populous country would have on the world. To answer these questions, The Green Room producers sat down with Martin Dimitrov, associate professor of Political Science and the director of the Asian Studies program at Tulane.

Tulane University’s Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT) provides theoretical and applied resources, tools and direction to the university community to realize the goal of engaged learning at Tulane. CELT coalesces and serves as a clearinghouse for the university’s engaged learning experiences. Our structure is based on three core areas: Classroom Engagement, Experiential Engagement, and Research Engagement.

The song Happy Birthday has a long litigious history datingg back to the 1930s. Every year, people spent millions in royalties to use the song, until a class action law suit was brought challengin whether the owner, Warner/Chappell Music, actually owned the copyright it so aggressively enforced. Elizabeth Townsend-Gard, Tulane School of Law professor specializing in copyright law, discusses the case of Happy Birthday.