{"id":87891,"date":"2015-11-18T09:30:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T15:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=87891"},"modified":"2015-11-18T11:42:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T17:42:20","slug":"und-to-announce-new-nickname-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=87891","title":{"rendered":"UND Fighting Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; <a title=\"University of North Dakota\" href=\"http:\/\/und.edu\/features\/2015\/11\/final-nickname-runoff-vote.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">University of North Dakota<\/a> backers have selected Fighting Hawks as the school&#8217;s new nickname.<\/p>\n<p>School officials announced the new name Wednesday. University of North Dakota students, staff and alums were eligible to vote.<\/p>\n<p>UND has been without a nickname since 2012, when the state retired the Fighting Sioux moniker after the NCAA deemed it &#8220;hostile and abusive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A committee considered about 1,200 nickname ideas that were approved by a consultant after a monthlong campaign to solicit suggestions from the public. The group gradually whittled down the list to 15, then seven, and then the final five: Fighting Hawks; Roughriders; Nodaks; Sundogs; and North Stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; University of North Dakota backers have selected Fighting Hawks as the school&#8217;s new nickname. School officials announced the new name Wednesday. University of North Dakota students, staff and alums were eligible to vote. UND has been without a nickname since 2012, when the state retired the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":87925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87891","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=87891"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87902,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87891\/revisions\/87902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}