Citing the increasing frequency of mass shootings and gun violence across the country, the upstate New York school’s longtime mascot Shooter the Fox quietly became Frankie the Fox this weekend. Murray told the Journal he kept hearing the term “shooter” being used to describe the killer, eventually identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock. While “Shooter the Fox” was a hat tip to the mascot’s basketball prowess, Murray said the “negative stigma” now attached to the word eventually led to the change. “Shooter the Fox was named Shooter the Fox years prior to shootings,” Marist senior Charlie Jerla told the Journal. “Our mascot is supposed to be fun, exciting and so on,” Murray told the paper.

Source: Washington Post November 14, 2017 22:59 UTC