FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2014, file photo, UNLV mascot Hey Reb! warms up the crowd before an NCAA college basketball game in Las Vegas. 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 evokes the Civil War Confederacy, officials said. The move comes after several months of debate and a year after a campus diversity office report commissioned by university President Len Jessup concluded that neither the campus "Rebels" nickname nor its "Hey Reb!" mascot have ties to the Confederacy. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File)
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