{"id":85729,"date":"2015-10-25T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=85729"},"modified":"2015-10-26T10:24:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:24:50","slug":"und-nickman-vote-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=85729","title":{"rendered":"UND nickname vote continues"},"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) \u2013 People with ties to the University of North Dakota will be voting again as the school moves toward a new nickname.<\/p>\n<p>None of the five choices finalized by a committee last summer got a 50 percent majority in voting last week. UND says there will be a runoff vote next week with three choices on the ballot: Fighting Hawks, Roughriders and Nodaks.<\/p>\n<p>Potential monikers that were eliminated in last week\u2019s voting were North Stars and Sundogs.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting Hawks got the most support, with about 31 percent of the vote, followed by Roughriders with 21 percent and Nodaks with just under 21 percent.<\/p>\n<p>UND has been without a nickname the last three years after the state Board of Higher Education retired the controversial \u201cFighting Sioux\u201d moniker that the NCAA deemed offensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) \u2013 People with ties to the University of North Dakota will be voting again as the school moves toward a new nickname. None of the five choices finalized by a committee last summer got a 50 percent majority in voting last week. UND says there will [&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-85729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85729","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=85729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85732,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85729\/revisions\/85732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}