{"id":66748,"date":"2015-03-03T11:48:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T17:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=66748"},"modified":"2015-03-03T11:49:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T17:49:37","slug":"und-nickname-short-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=66748","title":{"rendered":"UND nickname short list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/UND2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14517\" alt=\"UND2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/UND2-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A committee facilitating the selection of a new nickname for the University of North Dakota is expected to submit a &#8220;short list&#8221; of potential names by early May.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 UND announced the formation of the committee on Tuesday. Its 11 members include Minnesota Twins President Dave St. Peter, former UND goalie Karl Goehring (GAYR&#8217;-ihng) and United Tribes Technical College President Leander &#8220;Russ&#8221; McDonald.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The committee will narrow a list of potential nicknames submitted through a public process that UND says it will announce soon. The short list of names will go to a final public vote.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 State residents voted overwhelmingly in 2012 to dump UND&#8217;s &#8220;Fighting Sioux&#8221; nickname, which the NCAA considered &#8220;hostile and abusive.&#8221;\u00a0 The state Legislature put a moratorium on replacing the nickname until this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A committee facilitating the selection of a new nickname for the University of North Dakota is expected to submit a &#8220;short list&#8221; of potential names by early May. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 UND announced the formation of the committee on Tuesday. Its 11 members include Minnesota Twins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66748","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\/66748","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=66748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66750,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66748\/revisions\/66750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}