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Leaders break ground on Berwyn apartments Officials hope development will help to attract more graduate students, professionals to area By Mark Boyle and Carly Kempler @thedbk, @CarlyKempler Senior staff writers Community leaders gathered Tuesday morning on Berwyn House Road to officially launch the latest development in the University District Vision 2020 — a new, market-rate luxury apartment building. Vision 2020 is an initiative between the City of College Park and the University of Maryland to transform the city into a top 20 college town, according to the College Park CityUniversity Partnership website. This 275-unit building, which is
being developed by Wood Partners, is located on the 4700 block of Berwyn House Road and is another step toward that vision, said Maryland state Sen. Jim Rosapepe. These apartments will hopefully build a more “dynamic” college town by attracting more graduates and other professionals to the area, said Rosapepe, who is also a chair of the partnership. “It’s about professors, it’s about staff, it’s about researchers, it’s about recent graduates, it’s about retirees, it’s about a diverse community,” Rosapepe said. “And over time, the COLLEGE PARK MAYOR PATRICK WOJAHN, left, and Maryland state Sen. James Rosapepe, center, join other dignitaries to officially break ground on a See BERWYN, Page 2 275-unit market-rate luxury apartment complex located on Berwyn House Road being developed by Wood Partners. mark boyle/for the diamondback
MONUMENTAL COLLABORATION TOWN HALL LIQUORS began accepting credit cards on May 8 and introduced new flavors after a change in ownership that week. file photo/the diamondback
Town Hall accepting credit cards Under new ownership, lounge and liquor store will offer new flavors By Naomi Grant @NaomiGrant7464 Staff writer Town Hall Liquors, located on Route 1 across from The Varsity, started accepting credit cards on May 8 after changing ownership earlier that week. The bar and liquor store had been on the market for a few years, bartender William Key said, and the credit card system was implemented just days after the new management took over. “We had the issue before in the past where people would come in, find out that it’s cash only and that would deter them from purchasing liquor,” Key said. In addition to taking credit cards, the bar and liquor store will introduce new flavors of Cîroc, Smirnoff and Crown Royal brand liquors, Key said. Lucas Scott, a 2016 University of Maryland alumnus, said as a student, he would go to Town Hall about twice a month. “It was just with our small group of five to six people,” Scott said. “I think the appeal was somewhere we could talk, it was quiet.” He said the cash-only policy was personally not an inconvenience to him because of the ATM there. Many of the people who frequent Town Hall, especially during the day, are not students from this university, Key said. However, he noted Wednesday nights have become popular with graduate students, while Friday nights are popular with both undergraduate and graduate students. Staff writer Evan Berkowitz contributed to this report. ngrantdbk@gmail.com
DOUBLE MONUMENT FOR FLAVIN AND TATLIN numbers IX, left, and XIV by Bettina Pousttchi will be on view in a Phillips Collection exhibition sponsored by this university. photos courtesy of the artist and buchmann galerie, berlin
Second Phillips partnership exhibition to open today By Kimberly Escobar @kimescobarumd Staff writer German artist Bettina Pousttchi’s work will be on display from today until Oct. 2 at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., as the second
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This exhibit is part of The Phillips Collection’s ongoing Intersections series. The series, which started in 2009, highlights artists and their contemporary art along with The Phillips Collection’s permanent holdings, history and architecture. The university announced a six-year partnership with The Phillips Collection in October 2015 to allow expansion in a new arts curriculum, more postdoctoral fellowships, a partnership with Phillips’ International Forum Weekend, a See PHILLIPS, Page 3
Researcher to study lives of Asians in US Looking to remedy lack of data, foundation awards $500K to team including U researcher By Alex Carolan @alexhcarolan Staff writer A University of Maryland researcher was among those selected to conduct the most extensive study on Asian American people to date. The National Science Foundation awarded the grant, which totaled more than $500,000, to Janelle Wong, this university’s Asian American Studies Program
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University of Maryland-sponsored installment of its Intersections exhibition series, according to a news release. This architecturally-focused exhibit, “Double Monuments for Flavin and Tatlin,” will showcase five of Pousttchi’s works that transform rails, street barricades, metal crowd barriers and other materials used in public events to set boundaries and control large groups of people into sculptures that are aluminum-coated and have neon lights inside, said Vesela Sretenovic, Phillips Collection senior curator of modern and contemporary art and series curator.
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director, and three other University of California professors. The study will look at different aspects of the Asian American experience — such as racial discrimination, their thoughts on the presidential election and civic engagement — before the 2016 presidential election. Wong, the only East Coast representative on the team of researchers, said this study will combat the lack of data on Asian Americans, who are projected to be the thirdfastest-growing racial group in the
United States, according to Pew Research Center. “We will find out a lot more about their attitudes towards different policies,” Wong said. For example, there is a misconception that Asian Americans are conservative on tax policies, Wong said. Most people don’t know that Asian Americans are generally pro-gun control, she added. “That’s just something, you know, you don’t hear a lot about,” Wong said. “[Asian Americans are] sort of invisible when it comes to those kinds of issues. And yet they look very distinct from the U.S. population.” The survey will be conducted in
two waves. The first will focus on the presidential election, civic engagement and issue preferences. The second wave will review racial discrimination, attitudes between d i fferent g roups a nd attitudes toward social justice, such as Black Lives Matter, Wong said. She said the surveys will be sent to groups in every state and will be weighted based on the results. T he study w ill be conducted through surveys sent out in 11 different languages, which is unusual, Wong said. The languages include English, Spanish, and nine Asian lanSee STUDY, Page 2
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