LOL! I've always wondered about Updyke's defense. They had a long release from their arboreal department and a long article in their alumni news years before Harvey's debacle in 2010 that the trees were dying and the causes were being out of range, paving over the roots and blasting the twigs and leaves off with high-pressure hoses to clear the toilet paper. Personally, I think TP is an appropriate symbol for that whole school. (They have it on their class rings.)
Remember too, after the poisoning story broke, their own scientist/professor tested the trees and said they hadn't been poisoned.
That's just a messed up place down there.