Harvard University ordered the faculty deans who oversee campus residential houses Wednesday to let the conservative Harvard Salient distribute in their buildings, Salient President Sarah Steele told a Job Creators Network event on Capitol Hill on protecting conservative voices at Harvard.

Steele believes that student complaints prompted some deans, who have wide leeway over their residential houses, to order the newspaper to stop delivering print newspapers, six issues a year in addition to daily online articles, door to door in their buildings, which house hundreds of students each.

She said the newspaper spent nearly a year lobbying administrators to let it distribute campuswide, and "I feel that this outcome is delicate still ... we're still fighting the good fight."

The newspaper has high-profile supporters. Its board includes former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta.

Harvard did not immediately respond to a request to confirm the alleged policy change.