{"id":54769,"date":"2014-09-19T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T21:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=54769"},"modified":"2014-09-19T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T21:01:08","slug":"und-taskforce-new-name-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=54769","title":{"rendered":"UND taskforce new name logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43510\" alt=\"UND3\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3-300x202.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3-259x175.png 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The University of North Dakota has formed a task force that will figure how the school goes about picking a new name and logo.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Grand Forks-based university says the group will meet for the first time next week.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 UND spokesman Peter Johnson says the group isn&#8217;t charged with picking a new name but it could make a recommendation to university President Robert Kelley later this year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Johnson says the earliest the school could legally adopt a new nickname and logo is January 2015.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The university officially retired the nickname in June 2012.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sixty-eight percent of North Dakotans at the polls voted to drop the nickname deemed &#8220;hostile and abusive&#8221; by the NCAA before it was retired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The University of North Dakota has formed a task force that will figure how the school goes about picking a new name and logo. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Grand Forks-based university says the group will meet for the first time next week. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 UND spokesman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54769","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=54769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54772,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54769\/revisions\/54772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}