WORDS I'D LIKE TO PROSCRIBE. As noted here, the University of Massachusetts (weren't they the Redmen when the Marquette Warriors were the last major team to turn down the NCAA for the NIT?) will keep their current Minuteman mascot (via Joanne Jacobs.) ZooMass Athletic Director Ian McCaw "expressed concern in the past about the white soldier's "='gender, firearms and ethnicity issues.'" Ever notice how people use the formulation "x+issues" when they're unwilling to say "I don't like it?" Another way of achieving the same thing is to use the term "problematic." That is another way of saying, "there's something about this I don't like, but making it more precise I can't do." If I ran the Word Police ...