I happened to see on Yahoo Answers a question I had always wondered about myself – why are there three ducks on the seal of the University of Houston Law Center? So I did a little research. According to the Law Center website:
The Law Center seal includes three martlets above an opened text inscribed with “LEX,” the Latin word for law. Martlets, symbolizing peace and deliverance, also appear in the University of Houston seal – which in turn is drawn from the coat of arms of General Sam Houston who claimed descent
My Houston Cougars, described as “dead men walking” by their coach Tom Penders, played their way from a No. 7 seed to a Conference USA tournament championship and a berth in the Big Dance.
The Cougars earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1992 with a come-from-behind 81-73 victory against the UTEP Miners in the Conference USA tournament championship game on Saturday.
It’s a huge win for a program that’s struggled in the post-season and languished in the shadow of the Phi Slama Jama days of Hakeem Alajuwon and Clyde Drexler.
- Matt Miller,
I thought surely there was a little more to it than what the Houston Chronicle included in the headine – Judge grants motion declaring death penalty unconstitutional – nope, not really. Harris County Criminal Judge Kevin Fine, who ran on a campaign of personal experience with addiction, has apparently declared the death penalty unconstitutional, granting a motion by defense in a pretrial conference.
If anyone has a copy of the motion I would dearly love to see it. My friend Josh Zientek points out that the orders are available in all their glory on the recently revamped…
Photoshoped Rudy flashes
the ‘Coog’ hand sign
University of Houston Law Dean Ray Nimmer announced today that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, now a partner in the New York office of Houston-based Bracewell and Giuliani, will deliver the commencement address at our law school commencement.
Although a commencement speaker doesn’t substantively add to the education you just received, it’s one of the few opportunities to celebrate your accomplishments with your family and it’s nice when it’s somebody your grandma can recognize.
Update:
Commencement speakers…
The restoration work is apparently well under way at the old 1910 Harris County Court House. The county estimated $58,300,000 for the project. According to county reports, it was a tourist destination in its day:
The fifth courthouse was constructed of pink Texas granite and brick, reaching 210 feet into the modest Houston skyline. In 1910, this was almost 100 feet above the highest point of any other Houston building. The stairwell and rotunda was lined with “the most perfectly matched marble in the United States”. Every piece was measured and fitted at the Georgia quarry and the panels
Cynthia Woods Mitchell passed away yesterday after a long battle with Alzheimers. I knew her best as a pavilion; given her passion for the arts she might not mind being remembered that way. Among her more significant accomplishments, she raised 10 children with her husband George, to whom she was married for 66 years, helped plan and build The Woodlands and rebuild downtown Galveston, and was an ardent supported of the arts and sciences and of the University of Houston, her alma mater.
