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UNLV will retire Hey Reb! mascot but keep its Rebels nickname saying it refers to trailblazing spirit, not the Confederacy, after it removed a statue during summer BLM controversy UNLV President Keith E. Whitfield said in a letter to students that for all intents and purposes the mascot had been retired since last spring Whitfield noted that a number of other schools and some NFL teams do not have mascots He added that the school did not have a mascot in the 1970s, as the school shifted away fr...