'Rebels' fading away BATON ROUGE: Images of Colonel Rebel are hard to find at Baton Rouge's Robert E. Lee High School, but the school mascot has been the Rebels since 1959. That will change next year. The Lee High Rebels will be known next year as the Patriots, thanks to the school's decision late last month to change its mascot. As the Rebels, the school had long ago abandoned Confederate flags and the more-controversial practices associated with schools named after Southern Civil War leaders. While he approves that decision, Principal David Phillips said being the Rebels without really being the...