Banned Words?

I just read an article about a university that released a list of banned words for 2006. Here is the list:

• Gitmo
• Combined celebrity names
• Awesome
• Gone or went missing
• Pwn or pwned, a misspelling of “own” used by online video gamers
• Now playing in theaters
• We’re pregnant
• Undocumented alien
• Armed robbery gone bad or drug deal gone bad
• Truthiness
• Ask your doctor
• Chipotle
• i-anything
• Search
• Healthy food
• Boasts

First of all, to be completely nasty here, this list comes from Lake Superior State University. Apologies to anyone who attended there (yeah right), but that isn't exactly on the A list for Ivy Leagueness, is it. I would resent being told what words I couldn't use by Harvard, much less Lake Superior State University.

Second.. some of those words have been around forever, such as "search" or the phrase "Ask Your Doctor." "Chipotle" is okay to ban, that is some nasty stuff.

Who put these guys in charge of word usage?

I have to confess to being very interested in lists from past years. ;-)