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WEDNESDAY | 9.11.2013 | MaceandCROWN.COM | Vol. 57, Issue 3
TOO CLOSE TO HOME TWO SHOT ON 41st STREET AND KILLAM AVENUE “Old Dominion Police are working in partnership with Norfolk Police to investigate this off-campus incident. ODU Police have also been working since the start of the semester, as they did last year, with the city’s bar task force and state agents to address large, open access parties that are attracting students from all the area colleges and individuals from outside the area. The university is ramping up those and other security efforts even further and University Police have encouraged students to avoid these parties.” - statement released by ODU regarding a double-victim shooting that occured at approximately 1:33 a.m. on Sept. 8.
LOCAL STATION TALKS
HIGHER EDUCATION By: Samuel Mohan Contributing Writer Mace & Crown Old Dominion University President John Broderick was featured on WHRV’s public affairs radio show “HearSay with Cathy Lewis” on Sept. 5. The latest instalment of the “Local Movers, Shakers, and Innovators” series focused, in part, on what defines a metropolitan university and the role ODU will soon play in preparing a new generation of entrepreneurs. It also touched on the university’s latest construction projects and its endeavour to increase retention and graduation rates. “A metropolitan institution defines our location, but it also provides and defines the opportunities...Whether it’s working with the military, or with the Federal labs,
or with the court, or the bay. You can see we have some built in advantages that ought to be part of our academic curriculum and our research platform, and I think that gives us an edge and a niche over some of the other schools we compete against,” Broderick said. He made note of the growing regional and national economies and their role in providing new entrepreneurial opportunities offered through the university. He also expressed his hope that these and like opportunities will benefit the school, students and the community symbiotically. “The more opportunities people have to interact with us and see what’s going on; I think that works in our best interest,” Broderick said. Listen to the show - http://www. whro.org/home/html/podcasts/hearsay/09052013.mp3
LEGENDARY MC DARRYL “DMC MCDANIELS
KEEPS IT REAL FOR HIP HOP By: Jonathan Tyson Contributing Writer Mace & Crown
STORIES INSIDE INTRODUCING NEW TECHNOLOGY & GAMING SECTION ON PAGE E1
THREE FORMER MONARCHS INDUCTED INTO HAMPTON ROADS SPORTS HALL OF FAME PAGE D1
DANCE DEPARTMENT FACULTY MEMBERS COLLABORATE ON NEW SHOW “RITUALS” PAGE B1
Iconic MC Darryl “DMC” McDaniels spoke in the North Café on Thursday, Sept. 5. The event “Real Hip Hop with Darryl ‘DMC’ McDaniels”, hosted by the Student Activities Council, shined a light on the vast history of hip-hop. Most would know McDaniels from the hip-hop group Run DMC from the ‘80s. Throughout the two-hour event, McDaniels tackled a variety of topics that included growing up as a straight-A Catholic school student who witnessed the birth of hip-hop. He focused on both the positive and negative transitions hip-hop has made, which hip-hop artists have inspired him and his belief that hip-hop should be more responsible McDaniels said responsible hip-hop means that artists should stay true to themselves. Referencing artists like MC Hammer and Ja Rule, McDaniels explained that artists can be on top, but lose it all once they allow the industry and outside forces to change their paths. He quoted Afrika Bambataa’s “be who you are, just be” lyric to address how he believes that many in the hip-hop culture today
are afraid to be themselves and constantly put on a façade to hide their true self. McDaniels said he believes in the power to speak things into existence, and drew an example from The Notorious B.I.G.’s album “Ready to Die.” “As a man thinketh, so he shall be,” McDaniels said, paraphrasing Proverbs 23:7. He also expressed his admiration for Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five, noting that they were the first rap group to be inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, not Run DMC. “I’m never going to talk about it until all media before me, until all media celebrates Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five being inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Don’t come even talk to me about my induction until y’all spend 5 years [talking] about what got Flash and them there, because that’s why hip-hop will always be here and will always exist,” McDaniels said. McDaniels closed by reflecting on his beliefs of what hip-hop truly is. “We became legends, in rock n roll hall of fame, not because we were successful show business people, it was successful because it must be good and it must have purpose, that’s the whole essence of hip-hop,” McDaniels said.