http://www.chron.com/life/travel/houston...451537.php

Not the usual Chron-Clickfest. The author actually did some research and the photos are quite good.

(08-20-2015 06:01 AM)Da.Owl Wrote:  http://www.chron.com/life/travel/houston...451537.php

Not the usual Chron-Clickfest. The author actually did some research and the photos are quite good.

Photo credit: Jay Dryden, Baker '90

(08-20-2015 10:16 AM)mbrindley Wrote:  

(08-20-2015 06:01 AM)Da.Owl Wrote:  http://www.chron.com/life/travel/houston...451537.php

Not the usual Chron-Clickfest. The author actually did some research and the photos are quite good.

Photo credit: Jay Dryden, Baker '90

The "reporter" credited in the by-line must have worked with Mr Dryden on the article. Makes me wonder how the idea for the story arose.

This is really cool. I had no idea about 95% of these.

Why did the lawyer that killed Mr. Rice get pardoned?

(08-21-2015 11:41 AM)2mean Wrote:  Why did the lawyer that killed Mr. Rice get pardoned?

Didn't someone explain that to you during O-Week?

That was because Albert Patrick seceded from Lovett College (this was, back in the day, slang for breaking out of jail) and moved to Mount Olympus, where he attempted to emulate the ancient Greeks by hosting a jousting tournament. The Olympian gods grew jealous of the young upstart, afraid he would steal Zeus's thunder, so they decided to host their own martial tournament, which was much grander and had more events than an ex-jailbird lawyer could come up with on his own (Patrick's Games only included jousting and rules lawyering). Distraught by this turn of events, Albert Patrick used his old friendship with Hades, god of the dead and of wealth and of cartoon dogs, to enter the new Olympian games, and there he won a pardon for his crimes by defeating Themis, Dike, and the Furies in combat. He won by throwing Germanic foodstuffs at his opponents, blinding justice in both eyes and allowing him to deliver the fatal blows unimpeded.

Those of us lucky enough to have lived in Rice's version of Mount Olympus (Sid Richardson College) commemorate this great victory every O-Week with something known as the Sauerkraut Olympics.

Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

(08-21-2015 11:41 AM)2mean Wrote:  Why did the lawyer that killed Mr. Rice get pardoned?

Murderpedia (http://murderpedia.org/male.P/p/patrick-albert.htm) sez:
. . . Goff sentenced Patrick to death by electrocution. Luckily for Patrick, however, one of his sisters had married a wealthy man, John T. Milliken, who was convinced of Patrick's innocence. Milliken financed a team of lawyers to handle Patrick's appeals, which tied up the courts for years. In 1906, Governor Frank Higgins commuted Patrick's sentence to life imprisonment. Patrick continued to fight for total freedom, however. For the next six years, Patrick and the Millikenfinanced team of lawyers pursued every avenue of appeal, including, according to accounts in the press, under-the-table payments to state legislators and officials.

(08-26-2015 10:41 AM)OwlAndSparrow Wrote:  [quote='2mean' pid='12288715' dateline='1440175263']
Why did the lawyer that killed Mr. Rice get pardoned?

Didn't someone explain that to you during O-Week?

Ha! Like my 23 ACT score and bottom half senior ranking would have gotten me in to Rice.

Thanks Mr M

(08-27-2015 02:46 PM)2mean Wrote:  Thanks Mr M

I'm no Almaden Mike, but I try.