{"id":130238,"date":"2017-10-05T07:10:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T12:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=130238"},"modified":"2017-10-05T07:10:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T12:10:03","slug":"complaints-against-und-sports-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=130238","title":{"rendered":"Complaints against UND sports dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-102962\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UNDhawksLOGO1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UNDhawksLOGO1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UNDhawksLOGO1-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UNDhawksLOGO1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UNDhawksLOGO1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Federal officials have dismissed two complaints against the University of North Dakota over intercollegiate sports programs.<\/p>\n<p>The university said Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s Office for Civil Rights found no evidence of discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>The complaints were filed last spring after the university announced it was dropping women\u2019s hockey and men\u2019s and women\u2019s swimming.<\/p>\n<p>In one complaint, the federal office determined that the university\u2019s elimination of its women\u2019s hockey program after the 2017 season was due to the state\u2019s budget problems and was not discriminatory.<\/p>\n<p>The office also dismissed a Title IX complaint, determining that students on the women\u2019s hockey team were not treated differently because of gender.<\/p>\n<p>Athletic director Brian Faison says the school strives \u201cto be as fair and equitable as possible\u201d in its sports programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Federal officials have dismissed two complaints against the University of North Dakota over intercollegiate sports programs. The university said Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s Office for Civil Rights found no evidence of discrimination. The complaints were filed last spring after the university announced [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130239,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130238\/revisions\/130239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}