UND Nickname Headed for Third Vote

There will be a third round of voting to determine a new nickname for UND.

Fighting Hawks and Roughriders are the remaining two options after last week’s runoff vote failed to proclaim a clear cut winner.

Fighting Hawks got 45 percent of the vote, Roughriders nearly 28 percent with NoDaks trailing at just over 26 percent.

The final runoff vote will be held for eligible voters beginning November 12 at noon until midnight November 16.

UND has been without a nickname for three years, since the state Board of Higher Education retired “Fighting Sioux” after the NCAA deemed it offensive.