{"id":102966,"date":"2016-06-22T14:26:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T19:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=102966"},"modified":"2016-06-23T09:11:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T14:11:22","slug":"und-unveils-fighting-hawks-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=102966","title":{"rendered":"UND unveils Fighting Hawks logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-102962\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UNDhawksLOGO1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"UNDhawksLOGO1\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UNDhawksLOGO1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UNDhawksLOGO1-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UNDhawksLOGO1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The University of North Dakota has unveiled its Fighting Hawks logo.<\/p>\n<p>It depicts a white hawk head with black shading and a black eye, atop the letters &#8220;ND&#8221; in green. UND also unveiled a &#8220;North Dakota Fighting Hawks&#8221; wordmark, or descriptive name, to enhance the new graphic identity.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Forks school retired its controversial Fighting Sioux nickname nearly four years ago after the NCAA deemed it to be hostile and abusive.<\/p>\n<p>The Fighting Hawks nickname was selected in a vote of alumni, students and staff. It beat out Roughriders, Nodaks, Sundogs and North Stars, and has been in use since late last year.<\/p>\n<p>New York-based SME Branding worked for several months to design a logo to accompany the new moniker. Interim UND President Ed Schafer made the final decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The University of North Dakota has unveiled its Fighting Hawks logo. It depicts a white hawk head with black shading and a black eye, atop the letters &#8220;ND&#8221; in green. UND also unveiled a &#8220;North Dakota Fighting Hawks&#8221; wordmark, or descriptive name, to enhance the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103007,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102966\/revisions\/103007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}