The Stanford University band fired its tree mascot after she showed up drunk for a basketball game. The band was already on “alcohol suspension” so the tree had to go. “We don’t want to risk our core mission of rocking out and bringing funk to the funkless,” a band spokesman said.
Stanford Tree Gets Ax
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