But for a group of Tulane students, it means much more. Jazbaa, Tulane’s Bollywood dance team, describes Bollywood as passion, hope, excitement, being free, and a way of expressing themselves.

That Tulane would be in the conference championship -- for the second year in a row, no less -- would have been unimaginable when Leichtner was a freshman. The team was 6-6 that year, and had a ...