Board: Time for Sioux logo to go

Thursday’s action by the State Board of Higher Education concerning the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo probably seals their fate, UND President Robert Kelley said. “I think it does,” he said shortly after board members voted 8-0 to set a new deadline of Oct. 1 for the university to gain tribal approval for use of the name and requiring that such approval be encased in a 30-year binding agreement.

By: By Chuck Haga, Grand Forks Herald, The Jamestown Sun