hat does a college mascot have to do to get suspended by a university? Well, if you are the Stanford Tree, all it took was unfurling a banner on the field during the homecoming game's halftime show.
And the banner didn’t even have any vulgar words on it. It simply said, “Stanford hates fun,” which apparently is too controversial a subject for a college mascot to be raising. The most immediate cause of the Stanford Tree’s displeasure with the university's leaders stemmed from the delay of an annual fraternity party. But frustration with the school administration's control over student life has been growing for years.’s campus in 2020, the administration had been systematically kicking fraternities and other themed housing groups off campus, replacing them with soulless numbers. So, for example, what had been the Sigma Chi house for decades is now just “550.
Except the assignment to each neighborhood isn’t so random. There is a reason ResX’s first “core principle” is “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” The ResX mission statement even indicates that the new system is designed to “diminish the stereotype of the ‘Stanford student’ or ‘Stanford culture’ that may harm historically underserved communities on our campus.
conncarroll It’s nothing new, Stanford has historically been an MK-Ultra staging ground/social engineering laboratory.
conncarroll The Stanford Band was banned from Notre Dame Stadium some years ago when then drum major used a crucifix as a director's baton. Deserved it.