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Lake Sioux tribes.
• Only Spirit Lake passed a resolution supporting the name.
• A law requiring the school to keep the moniker was repealed eight months after it took effect last year, after the NCAA refused to budge on sanctions. But ardent nickname supporters gained enough signatures to put the issue on the June 12 ballot, and the state Supreme Court last month refused to block that election.
• Rick Burgum, chair of the UND Foundation, said the issue threatens not only UND's membership in the Big Sky Conference, but its ability to stay at the Division I level. A longtime Division I school in hockey, UND is completing the transition to Division I in all sports.
• "Even UND's outstanding hockey program is at risk," he said.

• O'Keefe, a former UND hockey player, said that "like so many other Sioux fans," he's not happy to lose the nickname.
• "It's not about preference anymore. It's about the price the University of North Dakota will pay if we're forced to keep the nickname," he said.
• O'Keefe said school officials cannot promote a political position, so the campaign falls upon alumni. He wasn't specific about the group's budget, other than to say the money is

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