UND Alumni To Vote On Nickname This Week

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — People with ties to the University of North Dakota are voting again this week on a new school nickname.

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.

The online runoff vote is from noon Monday until 11:59 p.m. on Friday.

If one of the remaining nickname choices gets 50 percent or more of the vote it will be the school's new moniker. If not, there will be another runoff.

UND has been without a nickname for three years, since the state Board of Higher Education retired the school's "Fighting Sioux" moniker that the NCAA deemed offensive.