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said.
• "To be honest with you, this kind of came out of the blue for us," he said about the UND group publicizing the issue. "We're just taking a wait-and-see approach until we get more information on where things sit. It's as simple as that for us."
• The Jackrabbits will play UND in football in 2013.
• O'Keefe's group is seeking support for a ballot measure that would allow the state Board of Higher Education to carry out plans to retire the nickname. A "no" vote on the measure would force UND to keep the moniker.
• Sean Johnson, spokesman for the group that collected petitions to put the issue to a vote in the June primary, said in a statement Tuesday that the state's two Sioux tribes haven't had a voice in the nickname debate.

• "The powerful forces against keeping the Fighting Sioux name continually overplay their hand," Johnson said.
• The debate started in 2005 when the NCAA listed 19 schools with American Indian nicknames, logos and mascots it deemed to be "hostile and abusive." UND sued the NCAA, and that led to an agreement under which the school would retire the nickname unless it received approval from both the Standing Rock and Spirit

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