{"id":86291,"date":"2015-11-02T07:49:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T13:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=86291"},"modified":"2015-11-02T07:50:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T13:50:11","slug":"und-nickname-voting-continues-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=86291","title":{"rendered":"UND nickname voting continues this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/UND2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14517\" alt=\"UND2\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/UND2-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) \u2013 People with ties to the University of North Dakota are voting again this week on a new school nickname.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The three options still in the running are Fighting Hawks, Roughriders and Nodaks. They were the top vote-getters in initial voting earlier this month during which the North Stars and Sundogs options were eliminated.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The online runoff vote is from noon Monday until 11:59 p.m. on Friday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If one of the remaining nickname choices gets 50 percent or more of the vote it will be the school\u2019s new moniker. If not, there will be another runoff.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 UND has been without a nickname for three years, since the state Board of Higher Education retired the school\u2019s \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 are voting again this week on a new school nickname. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The three options still in the running are Fighting Hawks, Roughriders and Nodaks. They were the top vote-getters in initial voting earlier this month [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86291","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\/86291","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=86291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86293,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86291\/revisions\/86293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}