The student newspaper at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is changing its name from "Rebel Yell" to "The Scarlet & Gray Free Press" in a bid to end criticism that it was named for a Confederate Army battle cry.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid on Tuesday praised newspaper editor-in-chief Bianca Cseke's announcement that the change will debut next semester.
The new name reflects the campus color scheme.
Cseke tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal that a Confederate battle cry isn't a great name for a newspaper.
The move comes after months of debate, and Reid called following an allegedly racially motivated mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, for the Nevada University Board of Regents to order a name change.
The twice-weekly campus paper has been fighting for funding to continue to publish in print and online
