'Missionaries' banished from Whitman College

So, Whitman College has become the latest school to drop its mascot.

In a recent Associated Press story, the Walla Walla-based school announced their sports teams will no longer be called the “Missionaries,” named after missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman who were killed with 12 other settlers by nearby Cayuse Indians in 1847.

In the story, reporter Nicholas K. Geranios wrote school officials considered the mascot “noninclusive, imperialistic and incorrectly implied that Whitman, “a private, liberal arts school of about 1,500 undergraduates, “was a religious school.” Officials also stated...