{"id":178119,"date":"2019-08-21T14:51:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T19:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=178119"},"modified":"2019-08-21T14:52:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T19:52:01","slug":"donations-to-the-ralph-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=178119","title":{"rendered":"Donations to &#8220;The Ralph,&#8221; contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-174372\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/EngelstadRalphArena2-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/EngelstadRalphArena2-300x186.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/EngelstadRalphArena2-283x175.jpg 283w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/EngelstadRalphArena2.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A major donor to the University of North Dakota who had threatened to withhold donations over a dispute with the former president has agreed to a 10-year contract extension with the school to operate the team\u2019s hockey arena.<\/p>\n<p>School and Ralph Engelstad Arena officials announced Tuesday that the deal will run through September of 2030. Terms were not announced.<\/p>\n<p>Engelstad Foundation trustee Kris McGarry, whose late father donated money for the $110 million arena, was at odds with previous president Mark Kennedy over the arena usage agreement, among others things. Kennedy was named president at the University of Colorado in May.<\/p>\n<p>McGarry said in a release that she appreciated interim President Joshua Wynne\u2019s \u201cleadership on this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The foundation recently donated $4 million for a $6 million hockey scoreboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A major donor to the University of North Dakota who had threatened to withhold donations over a dispute with the former president has agreed to a 10-year contract extension with the school to operate the team\u2019s hockey arena. School and Ralph Engelstad Arena officials announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":174374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178119","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=178119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178121,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178119\/revisions\/178121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}