I guess they updated the website. When I looked there wasn't a specific date. I heard that it was around that date last year and so I made the wrong inference. My appologies.
According to the housing website (and the booklet they sent us) - graduate housing is not pet friendly. Check out http://www.stanford.edu/dept/rde/shs/pd ... _HA_RA.pdf
Ah, yes - I'm coming to Stanford. Horrah.