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Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Volume 136 | Issue 1 | Reaching students, faculty and staff of the University of North Dakota since 1888 Inside This Issue Back to School Tips PAGE 3 O’ for Heaven’s Cakes PAGE 6 Fantasy Football PAGE 7 www.dakotastudent.com | facebook.com/thedakotastudent | twitter.com/thedakotastudent The smell is natural, but the coulee isn’t North Dakota’s Jacob Notermann Dr. Phil Gerla is an associ- However, the majority of system because it’s pick- first Chik-fil-A ate professor of geology and the Coulee’s water originates ing up contaminants from The Dakota Student eological engineering at the from storm runoff that was around town.” prepares for University of North Dakota. drained through pipes into Some of the more nota- The familiar “rotten-egg” “It’s nothing unnatural,” the coulee. “Anything that’s ble elements of the Coulee’s smell of the English Coulee Gerla said. “If you go out to deposited out on the streets ecosystem include creatures grand opening is the result of sulfate in the a totally natural wetland and and lawns will make its way like otters, bullheads and water that converts to hydro- dig around in the mud, you to the coulee,” Gerla said. common snapping turtles gen sulfide gas when it reacts can smell hydrogen sulfide as “It’s undergoing natural pro- Diane Newberry with organic matter. well.” cesses, but it’s not a natural Coulee | 2 The Dakota Student As construction work- ers put the finishing touch- es onto the franchise’s new building on 32nd Street, the management team of North Dakota’s first Chik-fil-A pre- pare for their grand opening. “They turn the keys over to me next week,” the own- er Guy Wentink said. After spending years working for “corporate America,” Wen- tink went to work for Chik- fil-A in 2011. The work and time he has put into the com- pany was “worth the sacri- fice.” Wentink says he is both excited and surprised to be opening the first Chik-fil-A franchise in North Dakota, saying that it was meant to happen in Fargo first, but things “worked out better” here in Grand Forks. Currently holding inter- views in a temporary trailer in the restaurant’s parking lot, management is looking to hire “around 100” employ- ees. Jacob Notermann/ Dakota Student According to the Bismarck A snapping turtle was recently seen by the English Coulee. Chik-fila-A| 2 Campus meditation group feels loss of Lotus Center Diane Newberry The original center was The Dakota Student built with a donation from Tamar Read, a former UND Since UND began demoli- faculty member. Rex says there tion on the Lotus Meditation still exist some funds from Center on June 19, the mem- Read’s original donation, but bers of the meditation group that the fees the group has in- that regularly met there have curred since losing their space felt displaced. have often needed to come out The university has pro- of pocket. vided them with a space for “We also had a lot of other their meetings in room 17 of groups that used the space (...) Swanson Hall, but Janet Rex, so people other than our group Chester Fritz Library research might feel a loss,” Rex said guide and leader of the medi- about the lost center. UND has tation group, says this has pre- said that Swanson 17 can be sented its own set of problems, utilized by different campus mostly financial. groups when scheduled ahead The group typically meets of time as well. on Monday evenings and Though Rex says that Wednesday afternoons, but “if “some people may not con- “When we had our own space, we could scheduele the times when we wanted and weren’t paying fees.” Janet Rex - Meditation Group Member we have retreats on the week- tinue with us because of the ends (...) now we’re going to be move,” she and other group forced to pay fees,” Rex said. members remain hopeful that “When we had our own space, they will be able to adjust to we could schedule the times their new home now that the when we wanted and weren’t summer has ended and access paying fees all the time.” to the space will become easier Rex also says that over the for the faculty, students, and summer, the Memorial Union community members that meet was not open on Monday eve- with the group for meditation. nings, and the group could not access their space. Instead, group members took turns Diane Newberry is the news editor for The paying a rental fee to a local Dakota Student. She can be reached at Diane Newberry / Dakota Student church each week. [email protected] Guy Wentink is the owner and operator of Chik-fila-A in Grand Forks. 2 | NEWS THEDAKOTASTUDENT EDITORIAL Editor-in-chief Matt Eidson [email protected] News Editor Diane Newberry [email protected] Opinion Editor Brendan McCabe brendan.mccabe@und. edu Features Editor Shelby Johnson shelby.marie.johnson @und.edu Sports Editor Allyson Bento allysonmarie.bento @und.edu Photo Editor Nick Nelson nicholasgnelson@gmail. com Business Autumn Graber [email protected] 701-777-2678 The Dakota Student Jacob Notermann / Dakota Student A snapping turtle has been seen in the vicinity of the English Coulee protecting its clutch of eggs. reserves the copyright privilege for all stories written and published by the staff. Permission must coulee until we found would be done to im- to its original state of fish and wildlife that be given by the Editor to 2 | Coulee her eggs,” Hanson said. prove the water qual- being a grassy water- currently reside in the reprint any article, cartoon, Dylan Young is a ity if a summer doesn’t way later in the year, Coulee. There are no photograph or part thereof. that laid eggs this past Master’s student at bring regular heavy but only having flow- current plans to remove The Dakota Student spring. UND. Despite the wa- rain. ing water in the spring. any dams from the is a student-operated Paige Hanson, a bi- ter being safe for wild- newspaper published by ology student and re- life, he said he wouldn’t the university of North search assistant to Dr. swim in the water. “It’s Dakota. Turk Rhen, spent the disgusting and smells at “The shape of the eggs was abnormal and summer studying the times,” Young said. “If Opinions expressed in this publication are not eggs collected from one it had more free-flow- the number of eggs was almost double the necessarily those of UND or of the snapping turtles. ing water, it’d be very the administration, faculty, Hanson said the eggs nice.” normal amount.” staff and student body of were nested about 50 Gerla said the uni- UND. yards from the Coulee versity has made ef- in hard, dry dirt. forts to improve the The Dakota Student is “Someone called us conditions, but the is- Jacob Notermann published every Tuesday and said ‘we saw a tur- sue is difficult to deal and Friday during the academic year except tle nesting, you should with. One of the more during holidays, vacation come and grab them recent projects was the Another option is to “People wouldn’t like waterway. breaks and exam periods. because we don’t think addition of the float- remove the dams from that, because then the they’re gonna survive,’” ing garden pads. This the waterway, removing Coulee wouldn’t have The Dakota Student is printed at Grand Forks Hanson said. “It took effort was conducted the possibility of hav- water in it most of the Jacob Notermann is a staff writer for Herald on PEFC Certified the turtle who laid them by students in UND’s ing standing ponds dur- time,” Gerla said. The Dakota Student. paper, using soy-based an hour to get back to Environmental Restora- ing dryer seasons. This Removing the dams He can be reached at inks. the Coulee.” tion Club to aerate the would bring the Coulee would also threaten the [email protected] Some of the 80 eggs water and remove nutri- The Dakota Student began hatching last ents brought in through welcomes feedback week, and Hanson said storm runoff. regarding articles and about 80 to 90 percent “The floating islands photographs, and prints of the eggs will hatch. are actually working corrections for articles This indicates that the quite well, but they’re containing factual errors. water of the Coulee was certainly not big enough healthy enough to have to manage all of the nu- little impact on the eggs trients in the coulee,” themselves. Gerla said. Though, the shape of Students and facul- the eggs was abnormal ty aren’t the only force 2 | Chik-fila-A and the number of eggs bringing new plants to was almost double the the Coulee’s ecosys- Tribune, Grand Forks normal amount. Han- tem. There are invasive County posted a mere son said the shape of and exotic plant species 2.2 percent unemploy- the eggs is a result of along the coulee, more ment rate last year, and the hard ground and the notably Purple-loose- according to the eco- high number is more in- strife. nomic modeling service dicative of the age of “It looks really pret- Emsi, had a 2.7 percent the turtle. ty, but it’s taking over growth in wages be- Hanson said that her the coulee very rapid- Jacob Notermann / Dakota Student tween 2012 and 2016. lab has released turtles ly,” Gerla said.

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