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By DALE WETZEL and AMBER HUNT, Associated Press


      BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple has signed a law allowing the state's flagship
university to shed its 81-year-old Fighting Sioux nickname.


      The measure signed Wednesday will let the University of North
Dakota satisfy an NCAA request that it drop the name or risk
sanctions. Lawmakers had passed a law in March requiring the school
to keep the name.


      The NCAA in 2005 listed the university among a group of schools
with objectionable American Indian nicknames, logos and mascots.
UND was the only school still fighting the NCAA over the issue.


      The new law says UND cannot adopt a new nickname or logo until
January 2015. Its supporters say that gives time for the debate to
cool off.

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North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple has signed a law allowing the state's flagship
university to shed its 81-year-old Fighting Sioux nickname.

Law signed letting UND drop Fighting Sioux name

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