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Humor
What keeps the President up at night. (Graphic: SAM LUSTGARTEN / The Stanford Daily)

Trump axes tree for being ‘too woke’

Ross Hamilton
  •  
Oct. 9
Sports Features
The Stanford Tree in the student section during a football game against San Jose State University at Stanford Stadium on September 27. This year's Tree is sophomore Sonnet Van Doren. (Photo: BOB DREBIN/ISI Photos)

Meet the 47th Stanford Tree: Small-town raised, embracing the craze

Patricia Tran
  •  
Oct. 7
Cartoons
(Graphic: ANAIS SOBRIER/The Stanford Daily)

The Big entrance

Anais Sobrier
  •  
Nov. 20, 2024
Sports
Hunter Hollenbeck competes during a swim and dive meet.

Stanford’s student-athlete advisory committee tackles college sports changes

Sterling Davies
  •  
Oct. 21, 2024
Quizzes
Indian caricatures like these decorated Stanford merchandise until the early 70s, when when the University sought to make its mascot less cartoonish. (The Stanford Daily Archives)

How well do you know Stanford history?

Cameron Duran
  •  
June 25, 2024
Campus Life
A graphic of seven people dressed in tree costumes.

The Stanford Tree turns over a new leaf

Paridhi Bhatia
  •  
May 7, 2024
News
A crowd gathers in the well-lit Main Quad

Kissing tradition goodbye: A new, less-intimate moon rises over the quad

Carolyn Stein
  •  
Feb. 25, 2024
Culture
A graphic of seven people dressed in tree costumes.

Branching out but rooted in tradition: Trees through the decades

Maria Chica
  •  
Dec. 4, 2023
Culture
a photo of a person wearing a cartoonish costume of a tree with black and white leaves, wide eyes and a big mouth. there is another person in a t-shirt and shorts kneeling before them.

Meet the sapling: Bravery and new beginnings with Emily Rodriguez ’26, the 45th Stanford Tree

Sofia Gonzalez-Rodriguez
  •  
May 4, 2023
Campus Life
Graphic depicting the ResX neighborhood system, with the individual neighborhoods highlighted in different colors on a map of the University's campus

Yggdrasil and Truffula highlight list of neighborhood names finalists

Ananya Udaygiri
  •  
March 7, 2023
News
A group of Stanford students standing in the stands of the Stanford Football stadium hold up a large, white banner that reads "Stanford Hates Fun" in black and red font.

‘Stanford Hates Fun’ protests campus social life restrictions during football game

Callia Peterson, Caroline Chen, Mark Allen Cu and Sebastian Strawser
  •  
Nov. 6, 2022
News
White banner reading 'STANFORD HATES FUN' in black and red capital letters on football field at Stanford/ASU Game.

Stanford Tree gets the axe, suspended until January

Caroline Chen and Yana Kim
  •  
Nov. 1, 2022
Football
In the 14 years since 2006 (above), when Cal beat Stanford 26-17 in California Memorial Stadium, the Bears have only taken home The Axe three times. (Photo: DAVID GONZALES/isiphotos.com)

123 years of football rivalry

Kaushikee Nayudu
  •  
Nov. 27, 2020
Campus Life
The Tree is the band mascot whose costume is redesigned each year by the student who wears it. Shown is the 42nd Tree, Caroline Kushel. (Photo: Gloria Kushel)

43rd Stanford Tree talks stunts, branching out

Brooke Beyer
  •  
April 3, 2020
News
Ken Lund / Flickr

Caroline Kushel ’21 chosen as new Stanford Tree

Clara Kieschnick
  •  
March 13, 2019
(ERIN WOO/The Stanford Daily)

Brown named first Native American LSJUMB mascot

Erin Woo
  •  
Feb. 26, 2018
(ALYSSA VICTORIA DIAZ/The Stanford Daily)

Tree Week kicks off with debut stunts from prospective mascots

Erin Woo
  •  
Feb. 20, 2018
Sam Weyen '18, chosen as the new Tree by the LSJUMB, performs a stunt during Tree Week (NAFIA CHOWDHURY/The Stanford Daily).

Q&A with Sam Weyen, the new Stanford Tree

Skylar Cohen
  •  
April 4, 2016
MADELINE SIDES/ The Stanford Daily

Treehouse building and naked guitar playing: a talk with the new Tree

Molly Vorwerck
  •  
March 12, 2013
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Samuels to spruce up Tree role

Dana Edwards
  •  
March 4, 2011
The Stanford Daily

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