Monday
April 18, 2016 Volume 112, Issue 51
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Opinion 3 Campus Life 4 Sports 6 Games 7 Classifieds 8
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Bourbon Street to be replaced
STUDENT SERVICE Students come together for National Volunteer Week. CAMPUS LIFE PAGE 4
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ANDI KING/Northern Iowan
Bourbon Street, a Barmuda-branded restaurant, is currently located at 314 Main Street in Cedar Falls. Bourbon Street, owned by CEO Darin Beck, is soon to be replaced by Noble Oak.
Student Wellness Services reminds students to relax when things get busy.
SYDNEY HAUER Staff Writer
OPINION PAGE 3
SOFTBALL Panthers come out on top, winning all three weekend games. SPORTS PAGE 6
Bourbon Street, the Mardi Gras-themed restaurant in downtown Cedar Falls owned by Barmuda companies, closed down after being in business for 13 years. However, a new restaurant is set to take its place. One of the better-known features of Bourbon Street will remain a central theme at the new restaurant. In the middle of the dining room is a large, realistic sculpture of an oak tree. It’s this sculpture that
the new restaurant, Noble Oak, will take its name from. Noble Oak is set to open in early June. The oak tree sculpture was commissioned by Darin Beck, CEO of Barmuda companies in Carlsbad, CA in 2003. He said that, although the sculpture sat in the middle of the dining room, he didn’t want to remove it from the space for the new project. “I wanted to pay homage to the tree because everybody loves it,” Beck said. “So we called it Noble Oak.” Beck went on to explain the decision to open the new
restaurant. “It’s an idea I had been working on for a couple of years,” Beck said. “We’ve been wanting to do more of a specialty smoked meats and barbeque restaurant for quite a while.” Beck said that the restaurant will feature an affordable menu of smoked meats, seafood, barbeque and steaks, all under $15. “Food wise, I am very excited about the menu we are offering,” said Chad Huhn, manager of Noble Oak. “We are definitely going to be offering some smoked meats that are outside the box, such as pork
belly and shrimp and housesmoked salmon.” Huhn also said that the restaurant will be “homey” and feature a family-style dining option, where large plates of food will be placed in the middle of the table and shared. Noble Oak will also be one of the first restaurants to offer wine on tap in the Cedar Valley. Bourbon Street had been a successful restaurant that featured Cajun, Creole and Louisiana-style cooking with an upscale feel.
LEZIGA BARIKOR
The audience erupted in laughter at the correction Bialik made as Ruud threw his hands up. “Oh, she gave me a big hug afterwards and said, ‘I’m sorry to pick on you,’” Ruud said. “I said, ‘I know, I made a mistake…the information we had was three, and we had incorrect information.’” The Joy Cole Corning Distinguished Leadership
Lecture Series brought Mayim Bialik to UNI’s Gallagher Bluedorn to give a lecture titled, “Art + Sciences = Big Bang,” where she told of her life experiences in relation to how she got to be the person she is today. There was a Q&A session in Strayer-Wood Theatre before the talk where Bialik answered questions that may not come up in her Gallagher lecture.
Bialik gives ‘bang’-up lecture Associate Copy Editor
MCT CAMPUS
Mayim Bialik, who spoke in the GBPAC on April 11, has been nominated for four Emmys, though President Bill Ruud mistakenly announced she had been nominated for three. Bialik later corrected him in good humor.
See NOBLE OAK, page 2
At the start of Mayim Bialik’s lecture on Monday, April 11, she could not help but correct the blunder President Bill Ruud made when introducing her as a three-time Emmy nominated actress, when she has actually been nominated a total of four times.
See BIALIK, page 4
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