KRS-ONE Emphasizes Importance of Experience
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An Associated Collegiate ~ress Pacemaker Award Winner • THE • Separating fact from fiction Men lose to UNC in film, Wilmington, 69-54, Bl Cl Non-Profit Org. 250 Student Center • University of Delaware • Newark, DE-19716 U.S. Postage Paid Thesday & Friday Newark, DE Permit No. 26 FREE \'olum~ 128. Issue 36 www.reriew.udel.edu Tu~sda~ · . l\ larch 5. 2002 KRS-ONE emphasizes importance of experience BY K.W.EAST Your brain controls your body, but Here invented a new instrument, Cultural Programming Advisory Slaff Reporter to this day neurologists do not know Parker said. Board member, said he thought Success in life is achieved where the mind is." He also pointed out how emcee Parker focused on essential topics. through finding your true purpose, The words that we speak can Grandmaster Flash "transcended his "I feel as though Parker brought Lawrence Parker - commonly affect our reality in ways we do not education" as an electrician by up a few religious and known as emcee KRS-ONE - said understand, he said. connecting two turntables together philosophically-centered statements in a speech Thursday night in To illustrate this, Parker gave the with a simple on/off switch. so that that brought up issues that are Mitchell Hall. example of earlier emcees who the beat would loop continuously. important to the African-American "A degree does not define who rapped about cars and money they In addition, Parker talked about community," he said. you are," he said. "Your did not have. Ten years later, hip the rivalry that erupted last year After the speech, the audience confmnation of who you are makes hop's stars attained that wealth. between rappers Nas and Jay-Z, in was invited to participate in a it official." On Boogie Down Production's which he was mentioned. question and answer period. Parker used his experience in the 1987 album Criminally Minded, "No matter how big you get in the Parker explained his belief that hip-hop world and his knowledge of members of the group posed _with pop world, the only thing that Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed are philosophy to show how to realize automatic weapons and rapped about matters is your reputation," he said. "personalities who will lead you to goals in a speech titled "Urban violence. Later that year, DJ Scott ''Whatever they were saying on the discovering your purpose." Inspirational Metaphysics." La Rock died of a gunshot wound radio, the T.V., it did not matter. He was also asked about his Early Metaphysics, a branch of while trying to break up a fight, "On the street, everyone was feelings toward the Black philosophy that studies truth, is Parker said . saying, 'Didn't KRS-ONE already Entertainment Television Network. concerned with how man perceives "So speak only good words, even have an album called the Blueprint?' " I feel that it is somewhat the world, he said. Urban when people are hating on you, so umbalanced," he said. "We should Metaphysics is an updated version that good things will come to you," In order to attain that reputation have more black shows on other of that science. he said. and overcome insecurity and networks, rather than trying to carve The first step in finding your As a member of seminal '80s hip- unhappiness, Parker said, the most out a separate niche in pop culture." purpose is to question what you ' hop group, Boogie Down TIIE REVIEW/Rob Meletti important thing is for an artist to Parker explained the moniker already know, Parker said to more Productions, Parker said he has Emcee KRS-ONE connected hip-hop and philosophy in explaining know his direction. "KRS-ONE" and recited a poem to than 200 in attendance. incorporated this individualistic urban metaphysics in a speech at Mitchell Hall Thursday night. "The quickest way to discover draw his speech to a close. "The truth does not take four principle into his music. Rap music your purpose is to volunteer your "Knowledge Reigns Supreme years to learn," he said. "You have promotes this idea by "telling it like with his third point: about DJ Kool Here, who is widely· time," he said. "If you are doing Over Nearly Everyone .. because to have the courage to look past your it is" in urban neighborhoods, he "Always remember that acknowledged as the inventor of rap something for free, you are going to ignorance rules the minority." education and decide for yourself said. everything is something else too," music. fmd out real quick whether it is what Parker' s speech was sponsored by what is real and what is fake. Parker encouraged audienc~ he said. "Everything." By interacting with the turntable, you want to do." the Center for Black Culture and "The next important step is to members to "think outside the box" He explained why this idea is so which was previously seen as an Sophomore Ramsey Harris, CPAB. separate the brain from the mind. important to rap music by talking appliance that is set and left alone, Project Alcohol policy at new acquits hotel instigates debate BY GRACE GODDARD alcohol with their meal, but there will be no. Contributing Editor seating around a bar, and those drinking must The recent decision by the university to be seated at all times. innocent build a hotel on Laird Campus caused debate "We don' t want a nightclub atmosphere," BY JEFF LUDWIG among members of Newark City Council and he said. "We don't want the hotel lounge to Stude11t Affairs Editor the surrounding community with regard to turn into a popular watering hole for Post-conviction DNA testing has alcohol and zoning issues. students." granted freedom to many wrongly Some council members said they were Godwin said he did not want the sale of convicted people, Peter Neufeld, author initially hesitant to approve the construction alcohol at the hotel to have any negative and co-founder of the Innocence Project, of the hotel. effects on the surrounding neighborhoods. said Thursday night in Memorial Hall to The original plans included a bar and Newark resident Albert Porach, who lives approximately 150 attendees. lounge area, but council and community on East Park Place, said the consumption of "The beauty of DNA is that it has members said they feared the sale of alcohol alcohoi by those at the hotel was not a large become the gold standard of innocence," at a cocktail lounge could promote drinking in problem for him. he said. an area close to the surrounding Christiana Porach said he is more concerned with the Neufeld said this standard has shifted a Towers and Pencader residence halls. re-zoning issues than with the sale of alcohol. TIIE REVIEW/Rob Meletti Councilman Karl Kalbacher; 3rd District, Godwin said the land for the hotel will be paradigm in the criminal justice system Peter Neufeld's Innocence Project from one of guilt to one of innocence. said the prospect of having a lounge where considered a business zone, but the area recently proved the innocence of alcohol was served would contradict the goal TIIE REVIEW/File photo He said DNA testing recently helped surrounding it is university and residential. Newark City Council decided that the the Innocence Project exonerate Bruce Bruce Godschalk, convicted in 1986. of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Porach said he felt that since the property Grant, which works to prevent underage building to be built on Laird Campus Godschalk, the 1 03rd person released resembles the perpetrator through "relative was originally zoned for the university, it drinking. will house a restaurant but not a bar. through its use after conviction. judgment." should not be changed into business property. "By putting a bar inside the hotel, they Neufeld said Godschalk was wrongly He said police officers that handle cases "Lf MBNA came in and was trying to build what are they doing in business?" would be sending a mixed message to convicted in 1986 of raping two should not be present during the a hotel on that property, the city would be Councilwoman Christine Rewa, 6th students," Kalbacher said. "We wanted to Montgomery County, Pa. women. identification process. looking into it a lot more," he said. "Just District, said she likes the idea of the hotel take a measured approach to control alcohol." When the process became available to "Even if it is unintentional, there still because the university is doing this doesn't because it benefits to HRlM majors. As a result, he said, the council members Godschalk last month, Neufeld said, the exists the possibility of subtly coercing the mean they should be allowed to start their "I think this will be a world-class hotel," worked with members of the community, test proved the same man had raped both witness," Neufeld said. "Statements like, own business." she said. "I've only heard a few constituent of the women in 1986, but that man was 'What about number six' and 'l noticed representatives from the university and hotel Godwin raised the same concern at the questions, regarding the impact of watershed planners to form an agreeable compromise. not Gpdschalk. you looking at number three' stem from a council meeting, but he said it was not a large and additional traffic." Mayor Harold F. Godwin said the city was "He was innocent," he said. "One and a desire to bring disclosure to a case." focus of debate. Building for the hotel is scheduled to begin pleased with the agreement it formed with half weeks ago Godschalk walked out of Neufeld said trying to bring change to " I understand this will be gootl for the in April alongside Clayton Hall on New Blue Hen Limited Liability Corporation, jail, spending 15 years in prison for a the current criminal justice system is hotel, restaurant and institutional management London Road.