banished words - the "back story"

[Alice Faber]

On 1/2/11 3:11 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> At 2:50 PM -0500 1/2/11, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>> This idiocy shows up annually this time of year and it never gets
>> meaningful. It's always the same gibberish by people who want attention.
>> This is the way this "college" gets on the map
>
> Well, word-banishing and hockey, LSSU's two varsity sports.

And they're not all that good at hockey either, at least not this season.
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