Tiger Woods should have been banished. I am not talking about getting banished from golf. I am talking about banishment from Stanford’s 2010 football media guide.

Some background: Stanford produces lovely media guides. They look good. They even smell good. Toward the back of the guides, Stanford lists what it calls “notable Stanford alumni.” This doesn’t mean they graduated. Woods didn’t graduate. Then again, neither did John Steinbeck. It simply means the person named attended the school — like John McEnroe who attended for about a minute.

The guide shows pictures of really big-deal alumni. Along with the photos the guide has an alphabetical list of all the notables, most without photos. For example, Sigourney Weaver has a photo and also is included in the alphabetical list. Same goes for Ted Koppel and Phil Knight. Others like Dianne Feinstein or John Elway make the alphabetical list but don’t rate photos. Are you with me?

For years, Woods got a photo along with his name in the list. It always bothered me because he never even tried to graduate, but I admit graduation is not a criterion.

It troubles me that Stanford continues to post his photo in the 2010 book — Woods kneeling down, sizing up a putt. It would have been enough just to include his name in the list, although I would not have objected if they dropped him entirely.

In the past year we have come to learn Woods cheated on his wife with probably hundreds of bimbos. He was untruthful about his behavior and he was sleazy and, all in all, he came off like a hypocrite and not a very honorable man. He was the center of a scandal. And he became a national joke. Do you disagree?

I don’t see why Stanford is so desperate to advertise itself by using Woods. I mean, he gets a photo but Dianne Feinstein, one of our Senators, isn’t good enough? Famous people who did not get photos are, among others: Jim Plunkett, Peter Magowan, Tom Watson, Eric Heiden — 5-time Olympic gold medalist and a doctor — Stephen Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (Sandra Day O’Connor rated a photo, thank goodness). Other Senators and Nobel Prize Winners and Pulitzer Prize winners didn’t get photos. Robert Hass, former U.S. Poet Laureate didn’t merit a photo, but Woods did?

Come on. Stanford is a great university, a place I love. Stanford has the highest standards. It is all about the highest standards. Tiger Woods has nothing to do with the highest standards of human behavior. It saddens me Stanford stills brags about him.