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Stanford , California Skip to content. Menu Search form Search term. April 11, Retired Stanford Trees have found a home in Green Library The Stanford Tree, which began life as a spoof on mascots by the Stanford Band, made its first appearance during a Big Game halftime program in Facebook Twitter Email. By Kathleen J. Sullivan In a small, climate-controlled room in the basement of Green Library, Stanford University Archives has created a nature preserve for the Stanford Trees that once skipped, twirled and leapt to the beat of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band.
Boston College football game. Stanford University Archives has amassed , photographs of the Band, including many of its Trees. Cicero Chuck Armstrong performs his trademark dance one last time as a student following the Commencement ceremony, accompanied by the Stanford Band and the Dollies, its dance team.
The "Indian" became the mascot for Stanford's athletic teams in and continued as such through , its most common manifestation being a caricature of a small Indian with a big nose.
In November of a group of Native presented to the acting Dean of Students a petition objecting to another incarnation of the Indian mascot, the live performances over 19 years at athletic events by Timm Williams, or Prince Lightfoot. The students believed the performances to be a mockery of Indian religious practices.
In January , the Native American students met with University President Lyman to discuss the end of the mascot performances. This first collective action established SAIO as a newly-formed organization in the Stanford community.
In February of , 55 Native American students and staff at Stanford presented a petition to the University Ombudsperson who, in turn, presented it to President Lyman. Perhaps this is the source of inspiration. Apparently students and administrators have been disagreeing about what the mascot for the school should be ever since , when their team name was changes from the Indians to the Cardinal.
In , after much debate, then-Stanford President Donald Kennedy decided that all their athletic teams would be represented by the color cardinal. Full stop. 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.
Since Stanford University and Palo Alto are almost inextricably intertwined in interests and location, it is a natural outgrowth of this relationship. The tree still exists and stands by the railroad bridge beside San Francisquito Creek — it is the site where early explorers first camped when settling the area.
A few days after the vote, local sportswriters picked up the "Cardinal" theme after Stanford defeated Cal in the first Big Game March 19,
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