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1 Gear tooth
4 Scotch whisky
brand
9 Apples, e.g.
14 Sushi bar tuna
15 “Inside the NBA”
analyst Shaq
16 Scary bacteria
17 *Dots-and-
dashes system
19 Charged toward
20 Long Island
airport town
21 “Divergent” star
Woodley
23 Robber, to cops
26 Join the game
27 Electrical unit of
resistance
30 Fish market
offering
33 Revolutionary
Guevara
36 *Entrée
38 Linen fiber
source
39 Statesman
Stevenson
40 Part of UNLV
41 Fly like a
parasailer
42 Weed-control
tools
43 *Boxy British
economy car
45 “Take your pick”
46 Ironed
47 Grounded fast
jet, briefly
48 Affordable __
Act
50 “This __ unfair!”
52 Car thief on a
pleasure spin
56 Car wheel shafts
60 Offensively
pungent
61 *Venue for
hypothetical legal
cases
64 Stop to think, say
65 Alma __
66 Word in
itineraries
67 Tricky road
curves
68 Roast host, and a
hint to the
answers to
starred clues
69 Wild blue yonder

DOWN
1 Victoria’s Secret
garment, for
short

2 Cries of
discovery
3 “You go, __!”
4 “My Cousin
Vinny” co-star
5 Post-apartheid
ruling party:
Abbr.
6 Prefix with
conservative
7 Father figures
8 “Ick!”
9 Hazards
10 Central Florida
city
11 *Wallet
alternatives
12 Zing
13 Web browsing
destination
18 Dainty taste
22 Church recess
24 Vintage vehicle
25 One of Tony
Soprano’s
henchmen
27 Mutual of __
28 Was wearing
29 *Hannah
Montana
portrayer
31 Fiber-rich cereals
32 St. Francis of __
34 Greek god of the
underworld
35 Use, as influence
37 __ in November

38 Showman
Ziegfeld
41 Devout term for a
churchyard
43 TV “neigh” sayer
44 These, in Nice
46 Lion family units
49 Roll out of the
sack
51 Kitchenware
brand
52 Bit of mockery
53 Andean stew
tubers

54 Buxom one-
named
supermodel
55 What the buffalo
do, in song
57 Disposable
diapers brand
58 “CHiPs” star
Estrada
59 Time at a motel
62 Non-Rx
63 Golfer’s gadget ...
or where it’s
used

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Taubman program 
trains new architects

By CAROLINE FILIPS

Daily Arts Writer

Though higher education is ide-

ally the gateway to the profession-
al world, there is often discrepancy 
between material taught in class 
and its practical application. In an 
attempt to bridge the gap between 
academic and professional set-
tings, the University offers vari-
ous 
degree-specific 
programs 

outside of the classroom, such as 
The Taubman College of Architec-
ture and Urban Planning’s Spring 
Break 
Connections 
externship 

program. Though Spring Break 
is often regarded as a relaxing 
departure from rigorous course-
work, many architecture under-
graduates spend their weeklong 
vacations learning the real-world 
applications of their scholastic 
endeavors.

Months prior to each Spring 

Break, the school’s Career Ser-
vices Coordinator Beth Berenter 
is hard at work, serving as a 
liaison between students and 
architecture firms. Berenter has 
catered to Taubman students 
desirous of professional experi-
ence since 1999, pairing them up 
with firms based on their loca-
tion preferences.

Berenter is inspired by the 

admirable work ethic of her stu-
dent clients.

“Architecture students typi-

cally work a lot of hours; school 
isn’t just going to class and going 
home,” Berenter said. “They 
literally live in the studio. The 
fact that they’re willing to give 
up any kind of break before the 
final push before graduation or 
the end of the term is a testament 
to the firms giving them a good 
experience.”

In terms of the feedback she 

receives 
each 
year, 
Berenter 

insists the program is less about 
studying and more about stu-
dents’ saturation within a profes-
sional environment. Each firm 
exudes a unique character specific 
to the organization, and Berenter 
stressed the indelible experience 
of students’ immersion within a 
specialized workplace.

“Many of the undergradu-

ate students have never seen the 
inside of an architecture firm, so 
they get an eye opening experi-
ence of what it’s actually like to 
be in a firm,” Berenter said.

Though 
originally 
created 

exclusively for undergraduate 
and graduate architecture stu-
dents in the early ’90s by the 
American Institute of Architec-
ture Students, the program has 
grown to also include graduate 
urban planning students. This 
year, 45 undergraduate architec-
ture students participated in an 
externship.

Among this year’s under-

graduate architecture extern-
ship participants were Taubman 
sophomore Taylor Boes and 
Taubman senior Nathaniel Ros-
neck. Boes travelled to Raleigh, 
North Carolina where she spent 
the week at Integrated Design. 
Rosneck chose Cooper, Robert-
son & Partners, a firm in New 
York City.

Boes began her education at 

Taubman last year as a member 
of the first class to be admitted as 
freshmen. She contributed to the 
college’s Research Through Mak-
ing exhibition, which explored 
various tactile fabric therapy sys-
tems for autistic children.

“It’s really cool to see immedi-

ate outcomes of your work,” Boes 
said. “Creating an environment 
that can do different things is 
really interesting to me.”

At Integrated Design, a small-

er firm of six architects, Boes had 
fully packed days from 9:30 a.m. 
to 5:00 p.m. She opted for the 
Raleigh firm due to her sister’s 
residence in the city and its being 
the workplace of 2010 University 
alum Sam Berner.

In retrospect of her first 

externship, Boes spoke positively 
of her experience. She found a 
greater understanding of how 
an architectural firm functions 
through editing projects, sit-
ting in on meetings, working on 
renderings of three-dimensional 
models and attending an urban 
design conference.

“It 
was 
a 
really 
good 

experience to see what a day in 
the office was like, because its not 

always just ‘oh here’s the finished 
product,’” Boes said. “It was nice 
to see how architecture is outside 
of an academic context. It’s very 
different 
studying 
something 

and then going into the actual 
field.”

This year was Rosneck’s sec-

ond externship experience. Last 
winter, he participated in Dis-
ney’s college program for the 
duration of the winter semester 
at HuntonBrady firm in Orlando. 
This spring, he decided on the 
more concentrated environment 
of New York City at Cooper, Rob-
ertson & Partners.

“At Cooper Robertson, we 

worked on the design for a new 
lifeguard headquarters in Asbury 
Park, New Jersey,” Rosneck said. 
“I think what I found so interest-
ing about them is that they do a 
lot of urban planning projects.”

Rosneck and three fellow 

students worked in a team 
alongside two architects. The 
duration 
of 
their 
workday 

consisted of exploring the facets 
of urban sustainability in the 
exploration of materials and 
researching New Jersey codes 
and regulations for eco-friendly 
building on the coast.

Rosneck believes this year’s 

externship taught him the value of 
professional collaboration, which 
he regarded as a refreshing depar-
ture from the more individualized 
work throughout the school year.

“I think that when you get into a 

work environment, you really real-
ize how important collaboration 
is,” Rosneck said. “I think in stu-
dio projects we really tend to wrap 
our heads around our own project. 
You kind of zone in on what you’re 
doing, and in the real world that’s 
totally not the case.”

Both Boes’s and Rosneck’s 

beneficial externship experiences 
wouldn’t 
have 
been 
possible 

without 
Berenter’s 
help, 
and 

Rosneck wasn’t shy to emphasize 
his appreciation.

“We’re so demanding, and I’m 

fascinated by how (Berenter) has 
been so accommodating and so 
well organized,” Rosneck said. 
“She’s a fantastic resource for the 
university.”

‘Glee’ reflects our 
adolescent selves

Beloved FOX series 
was the voice of a 

generation

By KAREN HUA

Daily TV/New Media Editor

Every generation has a tele-

vision series that defines their 
coming-of-age 
experience. 
For us – gen-
eration Y, mil-
lennials, call it 
what you will 
– Ryan Mur-
phy (“American 
Horror Story”) 
created “Glee,” a theatrical repre-
sentation of the American adoles-
cent experience. As young adults 
now, we may have spent the past 
few years repressing our high 
school identities. But ultimately, 
whether we know it or not, wheth-
er we like it or not, part of us has 
been shaped by the “Glee” phe-
nomenon.

The series pilot first graced our 

screens in the spring of 2009 – for 
some of us, at the peak of middle 
school; for others, during our 
entrance into high school – for all 
of us, post “High School Musical” 
phase, right at the tumultuous 
threshold of the tween-to-teen 
transition. Almost immediately 
upon hearing the a capella notes 
of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” 
(or maybe Salt-n-Pepa’s “Push It”), 
we all dual-enrolled in our respec-
tive high schools and William 
McKinley High in Lima, Ohio.

But somewhere between that 

first moment and now, we grew 
older and forgot about “Glee.” The 
final season even had the low-
est viewership and ratings of the 
entire series. Some former hard-
core-Gleeks didn’t even know the 
series took its final bow and exited 
stage right as the curtain closed 
indefinitely this past Friday.

The two-hour finale, appropri-

ately titled “Dreams Come True,” 
was first a flashback to the 2009 
pilot, then a flash forward to 2020. 
The episode was just as perfect 
and just as flawed as the show 
always has been. And for one last 
time, it tried to tie up the loose 
ends at which viewers incessantly 
screamed.

In the present, McKinley is 

converted to a performing arts 
school, and the remaining alumni 
celebrate the exponential progress 
that developed before their very 
eyes over the seasons. In more 
ways than one, the episode wasn’t 
only the reunion of New Directions 
– it was the final union of this cast 
as they waved goodbye to an era.

Project forward into the future: 

all the characters have reached 
their theatrical and musical aspi-
rations, as well as their relation-
ship goals. Kurt Hummel (Chris 
Colfer, “Struck by Lightning”) and 
Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss, 
“A Very Potter Musical”) are also 
expecting a baby, whom Rachel, 
finally 
a 
Tony-award-winning 

actress, is carrying as a surrogate. 
Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch, “Two 
and a Half Men”) has managed 
to become vice president of the 
United States, but she also shows 
a softer, more mature side, in con-
trast to the jaded bitch we grew to 
know throughout the series. She 
makes sincere amendments in 
too-good-to-be-true monologues 
of inspiration and even rededi-
cates McKinley’s auditorium to 
the deceased Finn Hudson (Cory 
Monteith) – a noteworthy tribute 
to Monteith’s memory after he 
unexpectedly passed away two 
years ago. And everyone gives their 
greatest thanks to Will Schuester 
(Matthew Morrison, “What to 
Expect When You’re Expecting”), 
the man who started it all.

The finale, like the rest of the 

series, was not completely plau-
sible – superficially glossing over 
issues of continuity and using 
coincidences for expository conve-
nience. How could all the students 
have continued to be wildly suc-
cessful? The despicable Sue Sylves-
ter is future vice president of the 
United States? Almost every single 
high-school-sweetheart relation-
ship worked out?

Most 
of 
us 
slowly 
lost 

interest in the third season and 

eventually stopped watching by 
the fourth, primarily because 
the plot increasingly became 
unbelievable. 
As 
we 
gained 

our own experiences and grew 
slightly more cynical, we began to 
realize how the show’s depictions 
of reality were too perfect and too 
simply resolved. The show grew 
cheesy as we grew mature.

However, 
“Glee” 
addressed 

this point in the finale, when Sue 
Sylvester repeated an iconic Finn 
Hudson quote: “See the world not 
as it is, but how it should be.” Not 
everything needed to be a replica 
of reality in order for it to be pow-
erful and poignant. The show was 
never perfectly accurate, but it 
showed us the possibility of what 
situations could be – what charac-
ters have the potential to be – even 
if these representations may not be 
completely true in real life.

The fact is, we were also cheesy 

and tacky and unoriginal and 
hyper-overdramatic and pseudo-
inspirational; a superficial sheath 
of makeup complexions and foot-
ball jerseys, a mask of insecurities 
and inadequacies and idiosyncra-
sies. Our critique of and eventual 
disdain for the show was just a 
cringing reflection on the charac-
ters we were during our tumultu-
ous teens.

Regardless of what “Glee” has 

become, we cannot renounce the 
fact that we grew up with it. From 
middle school, the show held our 
hand as we stumbled through 
our own high school’s dim corri-
dors. Rachel Berry’s (Lea Michele, 
“New Year’s Eve”) voice soothed 
us to sleep after our first bad date 
or heartbreak. A little bit in all of 
us strove to be as effortlessly popu-
lar as Quinn Fabray (Diana Agron, 
“I am Number Four”), to be so 
naturally badass like Noah “Puck” 
Puckerman (Mark Sailing, “Rocky 
Road”). However, for all the freaks 
and geeks, the outsiders and lon-
ers, we found solace among the 
other misfits of McKinley. What 
we all soon realized was that we 
all, in some form or fashion, had 
a big ‘L’ on our foreheads. We all 
struggled to fit in; we all cried 
over our identity crises; we all had 
our respective haters – but we all 
found our refuge in glee club on 
Tuesday nights after school.

“Glee” shined a direct spotlight 

on our lives, but it taught us how to 
stand tall and proud, to take com-
mand over our own stage-fight of 
adolescence. By guiding us with 
uncomfortable renditions of “Boo-
tylicious,” and touching ones like 
“Cough Syrup” and “Imagine,” 
“Glee” gave us all the talks the 
adults in our lives couldn’t – or 
wouldn’t in high school.

“Glee” maturely addressed the 

nuances of sex, dating and rela-
tionships – miraculously providing 
progressive perspectives without 
making us cower in fear or scrunch 
our noses in disgust. The show 
demonstrated multidimensional-
ity behind the most controversial 
issues: it showed humility in even 
the most loathsome of characters, 
urging us to examine deeper and 
disperse empathy to all characters 
equally. Being a homosexual buff 
football player, being an upper-
class pregnant cheerleader, being 
a clumsy boy in a wheelchair – 
being in love with theater, song 
and dance – that was all ok, even 
if the real people in our lives never 
told us they were. Regardless of 
our identities, the series taught us 

how to tackle adversity with grace 
under pressure.

The fact is, “Glee” didn’t 

changed 
– 
we 
did. 
“Glee” 

transitioned from the show we 
loved, into the show we liked 
ironically, then finally into the 
show we loved to hate. The show 
was never a piece of cinematic art 
or screenwriting brilliance; what 
made the show memorable and 
significant was its timing at the 
crux of our generation’s malleable 
adolescent years, right when we 
needed it most.

Even if we haven’t sustained our 

devotion to “Glee” for the past few 
years, it was almost impossible not 
to cry during the series finale. It 
was still difficult to digest the final 
end notes: “do-ba-do-ba-do-ba-
dah-dahhh” as the credits rolled 
one last time. Regardless of how 
hard we try to bury our adolescent 
years, they are a period of life we 
can never negate. As awkward, 
confusing and uncomfortable as 
they were, they undeniably helped 
us define who we were – and who 
we are. As we turn from our teens 
into our twenties now, whether we 
like it or not, “Glee” had some sort 
of impact on raising us.

We are a Gleek generation. 

TV REVIEW

FOX

“Who’s got the clap?”

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Glee

Series Finale

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