Yale Law Discovers New Depths of Frivolity With Dog Lease Program
John Yoo ·
Mar 28, 2011 at 7:06pm
My alma mater has reached a new low. If its lax grading system (there are only two grades, "honors" and "pass") and inattention to teaching law as it is practiced in the real world weren't enough, Yale Law School is now allowing stressed out students to rent out dogs for stress relief. What's next -- a nail salon, massage parlor, and makeover studio for students before job interviews?
I am just waiting for the inevitable law suit by Yale Law students concerned about the animal rights of the pooch, because of its unstable nurturing environment.
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Sep '10
Re: Yale Law Discovers New Depths of Frivolity With Dog Lease Program
The SPCA should be all over this.
May '10
Re: Yale Law Discovers New Depths of Frivolity With Dog Lease Program
I find this kind of cute and cool. I actually once conceived of a rent-a-dog business for Central Park and other urban areas; the idea was for a man or a woman to rent a cute dog to facilitate meeting a boy/girl. The dogs would be specially trained to walk up to a given prospective boy/girl when a seeming contrary command was given ("stay" = "go").
Dec '10
Re: Yale Law Discovers New Depths of Frivolity With Dog Lease Program
This reminds me of a BBC article on a similar practice in Japan. It seems pet rental in societies of emotionally distant and isolated young folks is the first step on a long and dark path to "rent-a-parents;" actors who are paid to offer an empathetic ear and a reprieve from loneliness.
The mere thought of hiring out an actor to play Sheriff Andy opposite one's Opie, in a game of Mayberry role-play crying fantasy adventure, creates a image of our future so jarring it makes me fear for the livelihoods of sympathetic bar keeps and jukeboxes heavy on Hank Williams everywhere.
All this makes me miss the days when buying friends (or relieving stress in college for that matter) came with a round of beers.
Edited on Mar 29, 2011 at 3:05amDec '10
Re: Yale Law Discovers New Depths of Frivolity With Dog Lease Program
Now it can be said that your Law School has clearly gone to the dogs...
May '10
Re: Yale Law Discovers New Depths of Frivolity With Dog Lease Program
Weeeellllll, as long as the students are paying for it, why not? Though as Paris says, the main application will be as a prop for picking up girls. All very wholesome.
Dec '10
Re: Yale Law Discovers New Depths of Frivolity With Dog Lease Program
Beasley: This reminds me of a BBC article on a similar practice in Japan. It seems pet rental in societies of emotionally distant and isolated young folks is the first step on a long and dark path to "rent-a-parents;" actors who are paid to offer an empathetic ear and a reprieve from loneliness.
Mar 29 at 3:02am
Edited on Mar 29 at 03:05 am
Isn't this what Freud offered?
Re: Yale Law Discovers New Depths of Frivolity With Dog Lease Program
It is well know that students often need assistance in times of stress. At Oxford, when I was a student in 1965-66, there was an institution which was called the Warneford which students could check into in their time of stress. So my view on this is live-and-let-live. If it helps, let them do it. But at the same time, it is hard to avoid the impression that there is a certain softness at my Alma Mater (Class of 1968) which cannot do much to prepare its students for the practice of law, which is tense enough to require an entire kennel of affectionate pooches to keep stressed lawyers in shape. My advice to Yale students is to resort to Monty only in extreme cases. Owning a dog, to serve the same function is perfectly OK. The place surely has changed since my student days. I leave it for others to decide whether the changes are for better or for worse.
Nov '10
Re: Yale Law Discovers New Depths of Frivolity With Dog Lease Program
With notable exception of our own Professors Yoo and Epstein, perhaps Shakespeare's solution from Heny VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene II is the answer to all their problems.
;-)
May '10
Re: Yale Law Discovers New Depths of Frivolity With Dog Lease Program
I eagerly await my next opportunity to litigate against a Yalie.