i 0 0 4. 0 0 S 0 0 THE EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK with WALTER NOWINSKI table__ _ _ _ _ _ s_ A look at the big news events this week and how important they really are. Conveniently rated from one to10. Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - The Michigan Daily An ArchitSpeak primer It's over your head lArchitecture Column 4B-SB WHEN ALL THAT WORKING OUT DOESN'T WORK OUT Football players can lead exciting lives even if they don't make it to the NFL. 6B WHEN SUMMER JOBS GO BAD Some summer jobs that look great on paper turn out to be less than thrilling once you're there. WE WERE OFFENDED... REALLY Lunch at the PIKE fraternity came with an unexpected per- formance last week when a young woman entered the frat, stripped down and started 10 masturbatingon the couch. The 0 frat boys said they were offend- ed by the display - so offended it took them 30 minutes to call the police. BRITISH RESOLVE Fifteen British sailors were detained by Iran last week after allegedly sailing into Iranian waters. As a show of strength, a spokesman for Prime Minister t0 Tony Blair said Britain will be 0 "upping the ante a bit in terms of what we're saying" if the sail- ors are not released. DANCE MARATHON TURNS 10 Dance Marathon celebrated its 10th anniversary last weekend as scores oftstudents stood for 30 hours to raise money for Motts 10 Children's and Beaumont hospi- 0 tals. The $351,060 raised for the wealthy hospitalswill fund pro- gramslike horseback riding and airplane ridesfor sick children. SACKING FELLOW WOLVERINES Two Wolverines were kicked off the football team last week after they allegedly assaulted a student in west Quad. with players tackling students in the 10 hallways, perhaps coach Lloyd Carr needs to consider keeping the team locked up in study hall fora few more hours everyday - as a matter of public safety. FUNDING WITH A CATCH Bya razorthin margin, House Democrats attached a deadline for withdrawal to an emergency funding bill for the Iraq war. President Bush has vowed 10 to veto any bill that includes a timeline for withdrawal - despite thefact that funding for the war will run out next month. 0 Unierit esnacks.] STAY THE COURSE Sen. John Edwards announced last week that he will continue to campaign for the Demo- cratic nomination for president despite the return of his wife's 10 cancer. Unfortunatelynfor Edwards, it took an announce- ment of cancer to capture the media spotlight form Obama for a day. PERSON OF THE WEEK KARL ROVE rule 28: No one will Disgraced after Republicans lost control of Congress last fall, take you seriously political strategist and presidential aid Karl Rove found himself if you're wearing a at the center of a looming constitutional crisis last week after Hawaiian shirt. rule Congress approved subpoena's seeking Rove's tes- timony. Invoking executive privilege, the presi- books is fun until your dent said he will not allow Rove to testify about the politically-motivated firings of eight former student account gets U.S. prosecutors under oath. frozen. rule 30: It's If Rove can't devise a warm out. Clothing scheme to shift public your dog no longer attention away from serves a function himself and this scandal, besides cruelty. there might not be much left of the political party he - E-mail rule submissions to worked so hard to build after TheStatement@umich.edu the 2008 election. n the world of architecture, especially in academia, there is an alternate language that dif- ferentiates the neophytes from the virtuosos. Architectural rhetoric often exploits common English for its own purposes, but words are just as easily created from scratch. This transition can be quite confusing, and those outside the architecture circle have an even greater dis- advantage. Many times, interlop- ers are baffled when they stumble across a design review because they come in thinking that they will hear about buildings and leave pondering the existential nature of phenom- enological paradigms. The kicker is that the architects were talking about buildings the entire time. While architecture students may laugh at the cryptic jargon imposed on them throughout school, I find it incredibly frustratingthatarchitects are unable or unwilling to speak clearly about their studies to those FOOTBALL From page 5B Acho says one of her challenges is making some of the football players realize that their future may not rest on the gridiron. Instead, her job is to ensure that those who can't cut it in the NFL find success elsewhere. From the moment a recruit steps on campus, Acho said she tries to engrain the Michigan culture in him. She makes a point to meet with the student and his family, show them the academic facilities and reiterate her emphasis on his even- tual graduation. "When they get here, they under- stand what's expected," Acho said. "You're not going to just come here and play football. This is Michigan; it just doesn't work that way here." Acho heads the University's Ath- letic Academic Success Program, which is designed to keep athletes on pace to graduate and find success once their eligibility expires. In her seven years at the University, Acho has been instrumental in the aca- demic success of football players. From her office in the Ross Cen- ter, Acho moderates the academic side of a football player's time at Michigan. She works directly with the campus's larger academic advis- ing program and coordinates the athlete's schedule if there is a con- flict or change of interest. Acho has networked with various programs on campus to ensure the best possible learning environment. outside of the discipline. Architec- tural lingo began as an attempt to succinctly describe the physical world, but it has since mutated into an incestuous conglomeration of esoteric terminology. Sure, many subjects need their own jargon to describe things unique to their field, but architec- ture affects us all. Experts should speak about it frankly and candidly. Even professional architects have trouble relating their ideas to cli- ents. So in my final column for the Daily, I will attempt to bridge this language gap by defining some of the key words found in ArchiSpeak. Here goes nothing. Space: To the surprise of many, architects don't think they construct buildings. They're thinking about creating space, the interior volumes that people simply call "rooms." Buildings are merely the inconve- nient consequence of space-making. Through various advising meetings, activities and appointments with the Career Center, Acho does what she can so that the players to have every possible opportunity to succeed. "Ultimately, in terms of achiev- ing their goals and graduating, we're doing that," she said. Acho has also put in place the 3.5 and 4.5-year graduation program so that the players can get their degree in line with the end of the season. Working in constant communi- cation with Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, Acho takes on the responsibil- ity of the players' success. She meets with the coaching staff every Monday to give a full report on the players' academic progress. "I've been working 'with coach Carr for a long time, and he's extremely supportive if I'm having any issues with players to follow up right away with them," Acho said. "I'm very lucky that way. I don't know if everyone in the country has that kind of support." AFTER COLLEGE Even with specialized career counseling, many students flounder when they're thrust into the real world. A year after John Becker walked onto the Michigan football team, he walked off. "I knew I wasn't going to have a career in professional football no matter what, so I needed to walk out of there with my degree," Becker said. "My parents were paying my way, so I had to make sure I wasn't Aperture: A wall with windows sounds so banal. A mass punctu- ated with apertures seems formally intriguing. Hint: They're the same thing. Spatiality: The shape of a room. Architects have a penchant for add- ing the suffix "ality" to every word they use, even though a shorter word may suffice. It gives architec- tural discourse a certain amount of complexiality. Built Environment: When everything around you is manmade, you are within the built environ- ment. When everything around you is natural, you're probably much better off. Urban Fabric: Not to be taken literally - don't think Jeanne- Claude's orange curtains in Central Park. Urban fabric describes the nature of a city due to the relation- ships of its constituent buildings. Basically, it's whatyou see when you walk down the street. throwing But ev first and in 1991 w ing degre to be aha He tri Wh mar are but he recalls in Ford Mot plc Gro rejection lowing M With; truck dri "I aiw; as a kid," at the tic thought, this, getI Most1 trucker.: they'd et across tf their live of being; Becke for about neering: He wo g their money away." weapons research for the University en though he put his studies of Denver for the next seven years graduated a semester early before returning to trucking. rith an aerospace engineer- "I didn't necessarily love the driv- e, the real world turned out ing aspect of it so much," Becker arder than Becker thought. said. "I always thought I could give ed to get a job in his field, it a shot to run it as a business." His business, White Rider Truck- ing based out of Denver, has about at to do when five trucks. Theyhaulbuildingmate- rial, mostly through Colorado and lost of your the rest of the mountain states. Looking back, he made a reason- tbl able compromise. After all, it's ulti- mately only the very lucky few that on the field. don't end up adjusting their dreams until they fit reality. When Becker was searching for a job after college he went through the same search only met failure. Becker most graduates do, though it was terviewing for a position at probably a little easier with an engi- tor Company and the Senior neering degree than it is for many p on a Friday. He received liberal arts majors. Other football letters in the mail the fol- players are at a comparative disad- londay. vantage compared with the other few prospects, he became a University graduates, just because wvet. the players might not have had the raye wanted to drive a truck time to make their degree their Becker said. "Being unable top priority. Becker was a walk-on, ne to get a job in my field, I which meant it might have been less 'Well, I can get a job doing emotionally taxing for him to walk paid to see the country."' off at the end of the day and focus on kids don't dream of being a engineering. It couldn't have been as If you told the football team easy though, for the star players. Materiality: What a building is made of, except more abstract. See concrete, think monolithic expres- sion of solid planes. Intentionality: An architect's intent is what they tried to do, and their intention is what they tried to accomplish. Their intentionality is what they were thinking about when they intentionally obscured their original intent in order to achieve what they intended. It usually has somethingto do with spatiality. Glazing: Why not just say win- dows? Perhaps architects think that the allusion to donuts will make their designs more appetizing. Fenestration: Doors and win- dows. It's not exactly thrilling, but the term defenestration refers to the act of throwing someone out of a window. Building Membrane: Architects also like to take terms from other disciplines and use them as their own. Obviously taken from biology, a building's membrane is the skin of its structure, or the outer walls. Architectonic: Even though the definition of tectonics already relates to building and construction - the science or art of construct- ing materials - architects like to include the prefix "archi" wherever possible just to make sure everyone knows thatthey are still important. Stereotomy: Involves the carv- ing out of space from a solid. Ever wonder what turns a pumpkin into a Jack-O-Lantern? Now you know. Orientated: A pretentious alter- native to "oriented." It's one of my pet peeves. I looked them up in the dictionary, and they mean the same thing. Why use extra syllables? Sexy: What architects like to say aboutanythingthattheythink looks good, or well, sexy. Anything and everything. A model of a building can be "sexy." A drawing of a build- ing can be "sexy." I guess we needto get out of the studio more. coached all three players, pushed his players toward good grades in a way that might make Carr look lax. "If you didn't go to class, you didn't play," Bergeron said. "And he had the graduate assistant coaches make sure that we went to class." Betts can remember occasions when his old coach would pull play- ers aside to discuss their classroom performance. If one of his players struggled with academics, Schem- bechler would take an active role in getting that player to succeed in the classroom, Bergeron said. After all, Schembechler had to makehis players realize that a Michi- gan education was just as important as a victory on the field - one is ulti- matelyfleetingand one makes the dif- ference between earning millions on Wall Street and hoping for the mana- gerial promotion at McDonalds. Forthosewholeavethefootballfield behindlike NormBetts,BobBergeron and John Becker, the gridiron memo- ties never leave - but neither does their college degrees. And the combi- nation itself, they say, is invaluable. "The discipline I learned being on the football team and going to school at the same time are things that I've carried with me through- out my career," Betts said. "It taught me the life skills that taught me to be successful." The NFL provides a dream life, which Bergeron, Betts and Becker never reached. But the three found success off the field. And to them, that makes it all the more satisfying. . .9m & Earn Up to 10 Credits! Info. Session TODAY, 4 p.m., 1706 Chemistry Bldg. UM BIOLOGICAL STATION wwIsaaurni ha durnb nd up hauling frozen food he country for the rest of s, you might stand a chance tackled. r drove trucks outofDenver t a year. And then the engi- offers started rolling in. irked doing automotive and SEEING OFF THE VICTORS Today, if an athlete is falling behind in class, Acho and Carr will do what they can to nudge him along. But in bygone days, the nudge toward academic success was more like a shove. Bo Schembechler, who