Be creative, not insulting.

That’s the request from the Gonzaga administration to its students before the Zags play host to BYU on Saturday night.

According to the Gonzaga Bulletin, school higher-ups are requesting that students don’t dress up as Mormon missionaries, as they have in the past when the two rivals meet in Spokane.

“[Those costumes don’t] really represent who we are as a university and it shines bad on us and doesn’t show a welcoming community that supports everybody,” said Colleen Vandenboom, the assistant dean of Student Involvement and Leadership. “So every year it has come up and we have been talking a lot with Kennel Club and they agree — it’s not cool.”

The paper reported that last Friday a meeting was held to eliminate the mocking of Mormons. Present were members of the Athletic Department, University Ministry and Mission, Student Development, Advancement and Alumni and the General Counselor’s Office.

These discussions have been going on since 2011, when BYU joined the West Coast Conference. The Kennel Board Club, the program’s student section, is planning to send out an email encouraging those attending the game to avoid the mocking outfits. Gonzaga has a freshman, Jesse Wade, who went on a mission. That has pushed some officials into further action.

“When we learned that [Wade] had been recruited to come here, we had to be legit,” Vandenboom said. “Like OK, we have been talking about it enough and now, not only is it embarrassing, but it’s like, really? He’s one of our community members.”