Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr. had seven staff members expelled for publishing an anti-Long letter to the editor and refusing to accept faculty censorship.
The students, now commonly referred to as the "Reveille Seven," were Carl Corbin, Samuel Montague, Stan Shlosman, Cal Abraham, Jesse Cutrer, L. Rea Godbold, and David McGuire.
It resumed daily publication again in 1947 but dropped back to four issues a week in 1951 when the Korean War caused LSU enrollment to slump to just over 5,000 students.
[1] The Daily Reveille underwent a rebrand in 2017, and now publishes print newspaper editions semi-weekly, with a heightened focus on its digital presence.
"[5] In 2015, LSU Libraries began a $100,000 project to create digital scans of the entire archives of the Daily Reveille to make them more accessible and searchable.
Staff of the Reveille must be full-time students in good standing with the University; many of them major in mass communication.