{"id":82768,"date":"2015-09-22T14:34:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T19:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=82768"},"modified":"2015-09-22T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T19:35:57","slug":"und-nickname-vote-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=82768","title":{"rendered":"UND nickname vote announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43510\" alt=\"UND3\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3-300x202.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3-431x291.png 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/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 scheduled the voting for a new school nickname.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The online voting will begin at 8 a.m. Central time on Monday, Oct. 19, and close at midnight Central time on Friday, Oct. 23.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 UND has been without a nickname the last three years after the state Board of Higher Education retired the controversial Fighting Sioux moniker that the NCAA deemed offensive. A committee this summer finalized five nickname options: Roughriders, North Stars, Fighting Hawks, Nodaks and Sundogs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Voting is open to UND students, faculty and staff; school alumni and retirees; donors; and athletic event season ticket holders. People who fall into more than one of the categories may vote only once.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 UND expects to announce the voting results early the week of Oct. 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The University of North Dakota has scheduled the voting for a new school nickname. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The online voting will begin at 8 a.m. Central time on Monday, Oct. 19, and close at midnight Central time on Friday, Oct. 23. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 UND has been [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82768","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=82768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82771,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82768\/revisions\/82771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}