After his haircut was done, he removed the cape and revealed himself to be buck naked, after which he played an acoustic guitar song about being the Tree. Judging the festivities are the current Tree, past Trees and the Stanford Band. That's why ex-Trees from all around the country and world fly in for Tree Week every year to determine who will join them.
They watch the tryouts with a discerning eye, submit the applicants to lengthy questionnaires and ambush them guerilla-style for surprise interviews. It is highly encouraged of any aspiring Tree to bribe the judges into liking you.
Sometimes bribes consist of typical college items i. Studebaker, however, went a more clever route, giving the two Trees immediately above him skydiving certificates -- which they all used together after Studebaker was selected on "Tree Night. The group suggested that the "University would be renouncing a grotesque ignorance that it has previously condoned" by removing the Indian as Stanford's symbol, and by "retracting its misuse of the Indian symbol" Stanford would be displaying a "readily progressive concern for the American Indians of the United States.
When Ombudsperson Lois Amsterdam presented the petition to President Lyman in February of , she added her own understanding of the issue. All of us have in some way, by action or inaction, accepted and supported the use of the Indian symbol on campus.
We did not do so with malice, or with intent to defile a racial group. Rather, it was a reflection of our society's retarded understanding, dulled perception and clouded vision. Sensitivity and awareness do not come easily when childish misrepresentations in games, history books and motion pictures make up a large part of our experience.
The second vote, on Dec. There was a move to reinstate the Indian as the school mascot in None of the suggestions were accepted. In , another group comprised of varsity athletes from 18 teams, started a petition for the mascot to be the griffin — a mythological animal with the body and hind legs of a lion and head and wings of an eagle.
The campaign for the Griffins failed. Nine years after the Indian was dropped, Stanford had still not decided on a new mascot. President Donald Kennedy declared in that all Stanford athletic teams will be represented and symbolized exclusively by the color cardinal. It is a rich and vivid metaphor for the very pulse of life.
The Mascot : There is no official mascot at Stanford University. The okra has a fierce expression and is equipped with boxing gloves, adding to its formidable exterior. A popular myth claims that the Fighting Okra was inspired by a stubborn okra plant near first base on the baseball pitch that kept growing back despite being continually cut.
For anyone wondering, a banana slug is a bright yellow, slimy, shell-less mollusc that lives on the redwood forest floor.
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