Via MassLive:

A day before the College of the Holy Cross Board of Trustees is expected to decide whether or not to keep “The Crusader” as the school’s moniker and mascot, the student newspaper has announced a change in the 93-year-old publication’s name.

The student newspaper will now publish under the name “The Spire,” students wrote in a statement issued Friday. […]

The paper was first named “The Tomahawk” and changed its name to “The Crusader” in 1955, according to the news release.

“The decision comes after much deliberation, dating back to last year’s editorial board, and is the result of a long process conducted with the intention of making sure the student paper best represents the Holy Cross community and its tradition,” the news release read.

In an editorial published Friday, the editorial board wrote that discussion regarding the newspaper’s name was prompted a year about by a letter signed by nearly 50 faculty members, noting that “The Crusader” was also the name of a KKK publication.

“Holy Cross’ crusader, as a motif and concept, has been synonymous with the school since 1925, when it was adopted as its official symbol,” the student newspaper wrote. “Men and women have been proud to call themselves Holy Cross Crusaders for nearly a century. The decision to break with that tradition, then, was not taken lightly or hastily.”