Party Animal: Tulane University School of Law [UPDATED]
TLL’s Party Animal series continues it’s bender and follows up with our second featured school. Coming in at the number 2 spot of Subtledig’s Law School party rankings is Tulane University Law School. Tulane is located in party-haven New Orleans, which is littered with watering holes and other places to get wasted.
For those of you unfamiliar with Tulane Law, they are pretty notorious party animals, and probably gave ASU Law a run for their money. Tulane Law is a prime example of what plentiful booze and a rowdy atmosphere will do to your run-of-the-mill law student. Some of the trouble they get into is admittedly adolescent, but nonetheless funny (and occassionally a bit over the top). Prime examples include:
- Stealing a pair of Mr. Rogers’ shoes from a display at the Lousiana’s Children Museum.
Tulane’s 2008 Barrister Ball was held at the Louisiana’s Children Museum in October. The museum had a hands-on Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood exhibit on Level 2, which includes a display with a pair of Mr. Fred Rogers’ shoes. In the course of the evening, some devious Tulane student decided to steal one of the shoes.
Who the hell steals Mr. Rogers’ shoes!? I’m going to take a wild guess and say that Barrister’s boozing plus access to museum exhibits led to the eventual theft. Rock on party animals of Tulane Law! The shoes were eventually returned when the school’s Vice Dean asked for them to be returned, promising there would be “no questions asked.” At least the student who yoinked Mr. Rogers’ kicks won’t have to worry about putting that on his/her moral character application. There would really be no explaining that one away.
- Throwing a potentially racist or at least distasteful party where students dressed up as stereotyped mexicans. Some followers of ATL and other legal tabloid sites might remember this picture from a few months back.
The Tulane party caused a bit of a stir when the photos were publicized. You say racist, I say rockstar. I’ve seen law students dress up like hicks, Native Americans and other racially-based costumes, but I’m not from New Orleans so I can’t tell you what was going on in their heads. But they sure do like their parties, don’t they.
- The school has also been permanently banned from visiting the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, after a tipster told ATL the following story:
When we were at the Aquarium the lights were dimmed and people managed to fornicate in the corners, do #1 and #2 as well. We broke into the offices of the museum and ransacked the gift shop. Oh, almost forgot, people decided to “feed the fish” by throwing food in the tanks.
If that story doesn’t scream debauchery and adolescent party habits, then I don’t know what does. Fornicating in dark corners is nothing new, but draining the main vein AND dropping the kiddies off at the pool is pretty ridiculous. To the mysterious deuce dropper, I salute your obliviousness to standard social mores!
Commentor Tulane Student was kind enough to point out that the ATL story regarding the debauchery at the Audobon Aquarium was incorrent. But what is the real story? That seems to still be up in the air. The following are all accounts by students claiming to be Tulane Law students. TLL is in no way disputing whether they are, or aren’t. But we’ll leave it to you to decide what really happened.
First of all, I was at the Aquarium for the Barrister’s Ball. Yes, there may have been some excessive fraternization near jellyfish tanks. As Otter said in ‘Animal House,’ “The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests – we did.”
As for the urination allegations, well. The Aquarium is only a short walk from Bourbon Street. These things happen.
But there was, categorically, no “number 2″-ing in the corners. Tulane Law students have their limits.
Last fall, the Barrister Ball was held at Jackson Brewery because Tulane Law has been banned from the Aquarium (where one student threw up in one of the tanks) and the New Orleans Museum (where several students broke a statue).
The third story is entirely false. The party was standard in every way. No sex and certainly no defecation.
Something like this happens at Tulane’s Barristers Ball every year. We always get banned from returning to a venue for a second year.
The gift shop story about the Aquarium is largely bullsh*t. There may have been a small amount of sexual activity, but that’s it. Did you ever hear of about charges being filed or a police investigation? Do you think being banned would be enough to satisfy charges of theft or burglary?
Come on. I know you’re still in law school, but I hope you’re not that f*cking stupid…
Things that make you go hmmm…
One notable alumni is Jonathan Hensleigh, JD-1985, writer of Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995), Jumanji (1995), and Armageddon (1998). However, the party card should get pulled from Tulane Law for having an alumni pen one of the worst movies ever. Because of Mr. Hensleigh’s work, people will forever associate Aerosmith and Ben Afleck together.
Overall, Tulane Law seems to be deserving of the number 2 spot on Subtledig’s rankings. The school seems populated with boozers, kleptos, and incontinent law students, which at the very least makes the place an interesting school to learn the law. Keep it up guys!
That’s all for this edition of Party Animal. Until next time, keep the beers flowing.
