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solved.
• Tim O'Keefe, CEO of the UND Alumni Association and Foundation, said neighboring South Dakota State has joined an increasing number of schools to snub the Grand Forks college because of the nickname. Other schools include Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota-Morris.
• "This list keeps growing and it broadly impacts all our programs," O'Keefe said Tuesday morning in the first of four news conferences scheduled around the state.
• "Unless already contracted, South Dakota State has let us know that they will not agree to any further contracts until we're in a good standing with the NCAA," he

said. "For those that would apply that these problems aren't real, quite frankly, they simply aren't paying attention."
• Justin Sell, the SDSU athletic director, said he talked with UND officials a year ago about putting a hold on future scheduling and was surprised that the issue came up Tuesday. SDSU does not have a written policy on nicknames like some other schools, he

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