The University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ student newspaper The Rebel Yell is now a politically correct yawn.

The newspaper’s editor Bianca Cseke announced Monday that the newspaper will debut as The Scarlet & Gray Free Press next semester in an effort to remove any possible connotations with the Confederacy, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.

“I was among the group of staff who, over a year ago, before anyone even came to us with concerns, thought our name was problematic,” Cseke told the news site. “A Confederate Army battle cry is not a great name for any paper. I’ve always been for changing the name.”

The Rebel Yell has published under the banner since 1955.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, urged the school to reconsider its rebel mascot after a racially motivated church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, and university president Len Jessup requested a report from diversity officer Rainier Spencer on any ties to the Old South.

“Spencer spent five months pouring through school records and interviewing students, employees and community leaders to compile a 60-page analysis of his findings,” the Review-Journal reports. “He concluded that neither the Rebels nickname nor mascot have any ties to the Confederacy.”

Regardless, the student newspaper staff pressed on with their campaign to rename The Rebel Yell and collected feedback from students about the change through months of deliberations that included an online survey and in-person questionnaires.

“The staff and university were reportedly under pressure from the NAACP to change the name,” the Las Vegas Sun reports.

The student newspaper has much bigger problems than its name, however.

The Student Life Funding Committee slashed the paper’s budget this year from $86,000 to $30,000, and the newspaper staff tried unsuccessfully to raise an additional $30,000 through a GoFundMe campaign.

Cseke and other staff are now working to try to secure funding through grants or partnerships with groups like the Engelstad Family Foundation, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and others.

“The Review-Journal is, indeed, considering the possibility of providing financial support and services to the UNLV student newspaper,” Review-Journal editor-in-chief Keith Moyer said. “We are attempting to set up a meeting soon with the appropriate school officials to discuss how the RJ’s involvement might work.”

“Every university should have a vibrant student newspaper that serves as a campus watchdog,” Moyer said. “It would be terrible for UNLV and for Las Vegas journalism if UNLV’s student newspaper were to disappear.”

And while Cseke told the Review-Journal she’s “very confident” the paper will continue on next semester, The Rebel Yell fundraising page paints a much bleaker picture.

“If we do not receive an absolute minimum of $30,000 before next semester, we will not be around in any format (our advisory board is not willing to let us go online-only). We are the ONLY source of 100 percent independent, student-produced news at UNLV, meaning we do not subscribe to editorial advice or demands from any authority,” according to the GoFundMe page. “Our long-term solution is to have every student contribute $2 per semester to support operating costs. However, the earliest that can happen is Fall 2018, and we need funding RIGHT NOW.

“Please Note: This issue has nothing to do with our name change (which is still happening on schedule by the end of this semester). If there is no student newspaper next semester, it won’t even matter what name we change our name to, or if we don’t change it at all.”