Money alone will not bring about academic excellence
...boasted a pitiful 54 percent graduation rate, and most school buildings were older than 80 years old. Booker teamed up with Gov. Chris Christie to coax a $100 million investment...
College Park’s newest apartment building is scheduled to open in summer 2017
College Park’s newest apartment building, Fuse 47, will open sometime in July 2017 and contain a number of high-tech features — distinguishing it from neighboring residences. The apartment community is...
Picking worthy names for buildings
...math building, named to honor William “Brit” Kirwan. President Loh’s biggest objection to renaming Byrd Stadium has been that, while we don’t condone the university’s past racism and opposition to...
Officials evacuate Physics Building due to gas leak
Officials temporarily evacuated the Physics Building this afternoon because of a gas leak, a fire department spokesman said. The building reopened just before 3 p.m. Alan Doubleday, assistant fire chief...
Subway to replace deli and cafe in engineering building
...Services spokesman Bart Hipple said. The Subway will replace the E+M Deli, an eatery in the engineering building that closed Sept. 30. E+M mainly served sandwiches, wraps, sushi and other...
Senate now hiding spare key to the Capitol in Mitch McConnell’s jowls
...Citing increased security concerns due to daily crowds of Pepsi-wielding protesters, Senate Republicans have announced they will begin storing their spare key to the Capitol Building in Mitch McConnell’s ample...
When economic policy only caters to the majority, people fall through the cracks
...of the time. But what happens to American factory workers who get left behind in free trade deals? Theoretically, economics has a solution. They would change jobs. Instead of building...
MOM’s Organic Market will move to College Park’s former REI site
MOM’s Organic Market is moving into the former site of College Park’s REI store, and the Enclave student apartment building will be getting its first retail tenant since opening in...
Noose found in UMD Phi Kappa Tau chapter house kitchen
...Building, Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, the courtyard between the A.V. Williams Building and the Computer Science Instructional Center and on a dumpster outside of Symons Hall. Police investigated the...
College Park Academy will move to the University of Maryland’s Discovery District next year
...could’ve done alone,” Ortiz-Brewster said, adding the academy’s state budget allotment “is not enough to build such a beautiful building.” The building is designed specifically for the school’s blended-learning curriculum,...