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  Stanford Tree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Stanford Tree is the unofficial mascot of Stanford University.
Stanford's team name is "the Cardinal," referring to the vivid red color (not the common song bird as with several other schools, such as the University of Louisville), and the school has no official mascot.
The "Tree" is representative of El Palo Alto, the tree that appears on the official seal of the University, and the logo of the city of Palo Alto.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanford_Tree   (559 words)

  
 Stanford University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stanford University is governed by a board of trustees, in conjuction with the university president, provosts, faculty senate, and the deans of the various schools.
Stanford University is home to the Cantor Center for Visual Arts museum with 24 galleries, sculpture gardens, terraces, and a courtyard first established in 1891 by Jane and Leland Stanford as a memorial to their only child.
Stanford is the university behind Folding@home, one of the most widely disseminated distributed computing projects in the life sciences field, allowing hobbyists and enthusiasts to participate in scientific research by donating unused computer processor cycles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanford   (2574 words)

  
 The Stanford Tree Returned to The Farm! :: Cardinal mascot held for two weeks by Phoenix Five.
The Tree was returned to the Cal Police Department and is being transported to the Stanford Police Department this evening.
The Tree was taken on Saturday, October 17 from Stanford's Band Shak.
The Tree returns to action on Saturday, November 7, when the Cardinal hosts USC at Stanford Stadium, on "Beanie Tree Giveaway Day." Bean bag Stanford Trees will be given to the first 7,000 kids 12 and under.
gostanford.cstv.com /genrel/103198aaa.html   (138 words)

  
 The Daily Californian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Stanford's interim nickname was the Cardinals because of the color in the university's logo.
The Stanford Tree, a member of the school's band, appears at major athletic events, but that mascot is in the mold of the El Palo Alto, the famous tree in the logos of the city of Palo Alto and the university.
The Tree was discovered as part of a series of band mascot contests at football halftime shows during the interim period in the 1970s when Stanford did not have an official nickname.
www.dailycal.org /article.php?id=10351   (869 words)

  
 Stanford University Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
The cornerstone was laid on May 14, 1887, and the University officially opened on October 1, 1891, to 559 students, with free tuition and 15 faculty members, seven of whom hailed from Cornell University.
Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts">art museum and art gallery, the Stanford Mausoleum and the Angel of Grief, Hoover Tower, the Rodin sculpture garden, the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden, the Arizona Cactus Garden, the Stanford University Arboretum, Green Library and the Dish.
Stanford hosts an annual U.S. Cobb Track, Angell Field, and Avery Stadium Pool are considered world-class athletic facilities.
www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/Stanford_University   (1566 words)

  
 Tree costume stolen: 10/28/98
Stanford fans are incensed by the Oct. 17 heist of the Tree costume, the Stanford Band's mascot, from the Band Shak by UC-Berkeley students.
The traditional symbol of Stanford's and Berkeley's arch-rivalry, the Axe, remains in safe hands on The Farm.
Stanford's Lt. Del Bandy told the Daily Californian that the incident is being treated as a "serious" crime.
news-service.stanford.edu /news/1998/october28/treenap1028-a.html   (509 words)

  
 Stanford Buckeye Tree: panorama by erik goetze   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
In Spring of 1997 I went for a late afternoon walk in Stanford University's open space while everything was green and sprouting.
Stanford's radio astronomy "big dish" is visible on the horizon.
Today you could not take this panorama under the tree for most of the preserve is now off limits to people.
www.virtualparks.biz /gallery/stanford-tree.html   (249 words)

  
 Trees of Stanford introduction Stanford Trees Arboretum
Trees of Stanford honors Ron and Helen Bracewell and the groundskeepers, botanists, university planners and architects, and community volunteers who have contributed over the past century to Leland Stanford's vision of growing an arboretum at his Palo Alto farm.
The ongoing research of landscape historian and Stanford librarian Julie Cain is noteworthy, as are the contributions of Magic's Dave Muffly and David Schrom.
Today, portions of the campus tree canopy are dominated by coast live oak, the most numerous tree on Stanford University lands.
trees.stanford.edu /Treesofstan.htm   (436 words)

  
 TreePresent
The tree in question was hidden from the street by a thick hedge.
The tree was a valley oak, Quercus lobata, displaying features typical of the breed: an asymmetrical inclination, a wide lateral spread of limbs, an open scaffolding of convoluted branches.
Since downward stress is needed to stimulate the growth of "reaction wood," buttressing at the trunk that holds branches aloft in their outward and upward reach toward the sun, the long absence of the normal pull of gravity had rendered it unable to support itself.
cla.calpoly.edu /~smarx/Nature/Trees/TreePresent.html   (1533 words)

  
 playboy.com / on campus / mascots talk back   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Stanford has the brainiest student body in the Pac 10 and, quite possibly, the league's dumbest mascot.
The Stanford Tree's roots, so to speak, bark, er, hark back to the Seventies, when the university decided to change its team name.
Stanford Tree: During my first audition, my friends and I built this big pumpkin made out of tarp in the pumpkin patch behind the Stanford band shack.
www.playboy.com /on-campus/mascot/stanford   (464 words)

  
 Stanford University Article, StanfordUniversity Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Stanford was founded by railroad magnate and California Governor Leland Stanford along with his wife, Jane Stanford,who created the University, and named it, in honor of their deceased teenage son, Leland Stanford, Jr.
The Stanford Quad and its original Moorish-Romanesque architecture are part of the campus plan contributed by H. H.Richardson, his successors, Shepley, Rutan and Charles Allerton Coolidge, and legendary architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
Stanford University is governed by a board of trustees, in conjuction with the university president and provosts and the deansof the various schools.
www.anoca.org /ms/school/stanford_university.html   (1441 words)

  
 How the UW and Tree stat up
Stanford lost a cliff-hanger to number-one USC, 31-28, while the UW was buried by Notre Dame 38-3.
The Stanford Tree is the mascot for the school's band and is not the Cardinal's official mascot.
The tree symbol derives from the El Palo Alto pine tree on the Stanford and City of Palo Alto seals.
www.4malamute.com /zo8.html   (721 words)

  
 The Irish Trojan’s Blog » The Stanford Tree
The Stanford women’s basketball team — which, as I noted yesterday, misses the Tree — advanced to the Elite Eight with an upset of Oklahoma on Saturday.
The Tree was suspended for the rest of the NCAA women’s tournament Tuesday, a day after it was forced to make like itself and leave during the Cardinal’s second-round victory over Florida State in Denver.
According to a report from The Associated Press, the student wearing the Stanford University tree, the mascot for the team, was suspended from duty after University of California-Berkeley police observed her drinking from a flask during a Stanford-Cal basketball game this year.
www.brendanloy.com /category/utter-miscellany/misc-funny-stuff/the-stanford-tree   (2716 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Page2 - How I branched out
Rumors were flying through the trees last weekend as ESPN aired footage of the St. Joseph's Hawk, portrayed by a woman, saying the guy in the Stanford Tree suit had asked for her phone number.
Well, the Tree is a combination of a spoof on mascots and the fact that the Stanford logo has a tree in it.
The Tree was having a whale of a time watching its tiny imitator, and I adored the mascot from then on.
espn.go.com /page2/s/tree/010315.html   (1124 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Stanford University Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Stanford University is a private university in Stanford, California and is considered one of the world's most prestigious.
Stanford was founded by railroad magnate and California Governor Leland Stanford along with his wife, Jane Stanford, who created the University, and named it, in honor of their deceased teenage son, Leland Stanford, Jr Thus, the school's official name is Leland Stanford Junior University, but is rarely referred to by its full title.
Contemporary campus landmarks include the Stanford Quad and Memorial Church, the art museum and art gallery, the Stanford masoleum and the Angel of Grief, Hoover Tower, the Rodin sculpture garden, the Papua New Guinea sculpture garden, Green Library, Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna House and the Dish.
www.ipedia.com /stanford_university.html   (1432 words)

  
 University Environment
The campus domain tree is integrated with the existing MIT kerberos authentication realm, and provides a single sign-on account for access to services in both the domain tree and those available in the MIT kerberos realm.
Stanford community members using Windows 2000 who are traveling or are off-campus can access network services remotely via the University's high-speed modem pool as well as via ISDN, DSL, Cable Modems services.
The security office is closely involved with the domain tree, and receives all the security events occurring on the domain controllers for auditing purposes.
windows.stanford.edu /docs/w2katsu.htm   (963 words)

  
 Says Me!: November 2004
And as someone who periodically played with the Stanford Band (more years ago than I care to think about), cheerleading was a little bit like fingernails against a chalk board.
I was too intoxicated by the idea of a little Stanford Tree helping give some character to my over-commercialized, soulless cheerleader daughter (cute but soulless and over-commercialized).
Even if everyone had recognized him as the Stanford Tree and been absolutely blown away by how adorable he was, and even if it had not cost me as much as an iPod to make, the costume would still have been a complete failure.
hornik.typepad.com /saysme/2004/11   (2042 words)

  
 STANFORD / University's tree mascot gets the ax for drinking on the job against Cal / Female student had blood alcohol ...
The defrocked tree, who plans to apply to become an astronaut and hopes one day to walk on the moon, said she could not believe the results of the breath test.
Spokesman Sam Urmy said the incident began as a misunderstanding when Lashnits began prancing in the middle of the court, as she is allowed to do at Stanford, instead of confining her routines to under the basket, as Cal requires.
The imbibing tree violated the terms of the band's three-year alcohol ban, which Stanford administrators imposed after band members got drunk on a notorious bus ride home from a USC football game in Los Angeles in 2003.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/17/BAG9UHAELT1.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea   (487 words)

  
 ESPN.com: Stanford Cardinal Men's Basketball Clubhouse
Stanford assistant Eric Reveno was hired Monday as Portland's head coach, hoping to rebuild a program that has struggled for decades.
Stanford tree mascot suspended for rest of postseason
Tommy Leep, the student who serves as the Stanford tree mascot during basketball games, told ESPN Radio's Doug Gottlieb and Jeff Rickard that he has been suspended for the remainder of postseason play and will not travel with the team.
sports-att.espn.go.com /ncb/clubhouse?teamId=24   (118 words)

  
 Stanford University Cardinal | An Official Athletic Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Top-ranked Stanford has now extended its win streak to 78 straight matches and clinched a share of the Pac-10 title, the 19th conference crown in program history.
Stanford's 78-consecutive wins is a new NCAA record, besting the previous mark of 76 by the Stanford Women's Tennis program between 1988-91.
Stanford set the record during former head coach Frank Brennan's tenure, as the Cardinal won six-straight NCAA Team Championships (from 1986-1991).
gostanford.cstv.com   (483 words)

  
 The Goofiness Is All But Gone / School officials have put kibosh on pranks
With the game in Berkeley this year, and with Stanford fans dreading the long walk to the stadium through catcalls (and worse) from the fraternity and sorority houses, Berdahl was attempting to head off problems before they began.
From the blue-and-gold mice that were released in the Stanford library (red mice soon appeared in the stacks at Cal) to the Stanford football helmet clamped on the head of the large statue of Father Junipero Serra on Interstate 280 in 1985, these are two schools willing to go the extra offbeat mile.
The Tree appeared at the next game, against USC, but at halftime it was announced that the costume was ``contaminated'' by the time it spent in Cal hands.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/11/20/MN2999.DTL&type=printable   (1112 words)

  
 abc7news.com: Stanford Tree Cut Down For Bad Behavior, Again
Of all the trees on the Stanford campus, there is one in particular that is causing the most trouble.
Stanford Tree Tommy Leep was recently suspended from the Women's NCAA Tournament for dancing in an unauthorized area.
But the tree has done too much raging recently -- the previous tree, Erin Lashnitz, was removed -- cut down for dancing while drunk.
abclocal.go.com /kgo/story?section=sports&id=4073894   (416 words)

  
 Stanford University Design Guidelines
In order to download artwork for Stanford emblems and stationery, you must have a valid SUNet ID. Refer to Design Elements and Usage Guidelines for descriptions of University emblems, typography, and color.
Stanford's name and emblems, including the seal and Block "S" symbols, are all trademarks of Stanford covered by the protections of 15 U.S.C. §§ 1051 - 1127 and the provisions of the Administrative Guide Memo 15.5.
For answers to other questions about using Stanford's name or emblems, please contact the Director of Business Development at trademarks@stanford.edu or (650) 723-3331.
www-cs.stanford.edu /gifs/lines.html   (489 words)

  
 The Daily Californian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Stanford Band Manager Stella Cousins said the tree had initially been held for a ransom payment.
Chuck Armstrong, the Stanford Tree in 2001-2002, said it was returned with only a few leaves and one eye missing.
Stealing the tree is a tradition in the Cal-Stanford rivalry, achieved most recently by the Phoenix Five in 1998.
www.dailycal.org /particle.php?id=13661   (300 words)

  
 Paul Greenberg
Tree Week, which actually lasts 10 days, is held every year to pick the new Tree on the basis of who can pull the most far-out stunt.
Stanford's clocks appear forever stopped in admiring contemplation of their own, arbitrary idea of the time.
All of which may be why the competition for the Stanford Tree struck me as more intellectually significant and politically daring than the oh-so-serious pronunciamentos of its president and fellow enforcers of goodthink on campus.
www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/greenberg042005.asp   (718 words)

  
 The Sporting News Archives - Tree surgeons
Merrill has assumed the perilous role of Stanford's mascot, which involves building his own 9 1/2-foot costume replica of the Stanford pine tree and withstanding the pummeling that is sure to come from Golden Bears fans when the two teams meet.
In 1996, Stanford mascot Chris Kary was mauled at Cal's Memorial Stadium.
Stanford's tree mascot, shown here in 1996, has seen its share of unwelcome pruning.
www.sportingnews.com /archives/cfootball/119455.html   (348 words)

  
 Select 64
Stanford won the first game easily by beating the Florida Atlantic with a score of 15-3.
Looked like the tree is tuning up for his appearance at the Rose Bowl since Stanford will be playing against the Wisconsin Badgers.
Stanford dominated its first round match with a 15-3, 15-1, 15-5 win over Florida Atlantic (17-13) as the Cardinal won its 16th straight match overall and its 19th consecutive first round NCAA Tournament contest.
www.swoo.com /39bday/select64.htm   (795 words)

  
 Stanford Giving Tree
The Stanford Giving Tree is a health care volunteer organization at Stanford University.
Working in conjunction with the UCSF ALS Center, The Stanford Giving Tree offers health care assistance for patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a neurological disorder also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Under the tenet of a "Friendly Visitor Program", the Stanford Giving Tree is designed to provide ALS patients with caring one-on-one support from motivated Stanford students.
www.stanford.edu /group/givingtree   (153 words)

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