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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 27, 1900
Drum Major Erica Neildinger, St. Louis senior, studies in Hoch this year's songs in Hoch. Because drum majors do not play an instru-
Auditorium. The KU Marching Band was recording cassette tapes of ment, Neildinger got a study break.
Major studying
Fulcher
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mick, a 1990 KU graduate, they began Black Men of Today.
Fulcher said, "Of the four founders, Mark was the mind, John was the voice, I was the heart and the emotion, and Cory was a culmination of all of those. That is what I do best: heart and emotion to whatever I do."
In addition to responsibilities as a student senator and volunteer at Safecare, a community service organization that provides temporary housing for underprivileged dues' natives in Black Men of Today keep him busy nearly all the time.
"I tend to be more stressed out now than I ever was," he said, sporting a tuxedo baseball cap with the hilt of his glove. "I have not distressed. Things have to be perfect."
Norma Norman, associate director of the Office of Minority Affairs, said Pulcher succeeded in representing her son, a student who felt discriminated against.
"Darren is typical of the type of student at KU in that he is an extremely bright, capable student." Norman said. "He is atypical in the sense that unlike traditional students who are concerned and wants to be involved.
"Darren certainly makes KU, in my estimation, a much better place to be."
Riccardo Harris, Fulcher's roommate, said one of the things that impressed him most about Fulcher
was his ability to keep working hard.
"He truly works hard all the time He's always working to make things better."
"He's always positive," said Harris, Witchia junior. "He never shows anything negative. And he's always busy. When he's home, he's getting something together, and when he's left, pile his messages up by the phone.
But the time has come for Fulcher to take some time off to avoid becoming overworked
"As long as I'm in Lawrence, I don't get away from it," Fulcher said. "There's always someone talking about Black Men of Today."
A smile came over his face as he said, "The only time I get totally away is when I go home to my mother's house. I'll take off and go there, and no one will know where I am. I'll get back and there will be a message on my machine saying, 'Where are you?' And they be mad because they think I'm dead or something."
Educationally sheltered
That home in where he feels so shellered is in south Kansas City, Mo. where Fulcher was born and reared. He was born in 1968, and his parents, Johnny and Queen, divorced when he was 3.
Between the divorce and later remarriage. Fulcher's mother worked to support him and his siblings. Fulcher has three sisters and two brothers, and he is the next to the youngest.
but things took a change for the better when his mother remarried
His family was poor, Fulcher said.
"It was like moving from one world to the next," Fulcher said. "The best thing was that my mom was able to stay home with me. I was the only kid she actually had time to stay home with."
But all of his memories are not fond ones. He regrets the lack of education he received about Blacks in American history.
"Growing up, I never, never, had anyone tell me about Black consciousness," he said. "I do resent not having that base. I hate the fact that I was never told who Malcolm X was. The only person I knew was about Martin Luther King, who we had a picture of in our house."
Fulcher smiled and said, "Every Black household had a picture of King and one of JFK."
Fulcher said the educational system was to blame for his lack of knowledge about Black history.
Fulcher graduated in 1986 from Southwest High School and enrolled at William Jewell, where he played for the Boston team one year, the time came for a change.
In 1987, Fulcher took a year off and headed to Lancaster. Calfen's, a town near New York, was one of his homes.
Fulcher said that living in California taught him a lot. One of the best experiences he had was growing up under his father, who lives in California.
Determined to give
son relationship." Fulcher said. "I can tell him what I'm comfortable saying, 'Hey, pops, listen to this.'"
While in California, he worked as a waiter in a Pizza Hut, and one of his most memorable days there was Spielberg came into the restaurant
"My father and I have become more like pals, not like a father and
"I sat back and actually saw what he had done for her, and it had an effect on me," he said. "I thought, "What exactly it is about,"
Speilberg bought a homeless woman a pizza, Fulcher said, and the experience affected him.
After his stay in California, Fulcher came to KU, where he enrolled in pre-law. He will graduate this spring.
He said he was worried that the gap between Blacks who had opportunities and those who did not was growing.
"They don't see us as them anymore," he said. "But 'I'm still Darren from around the way, I still go back and hang out on the block, but they treat me different. But I could never leave that part of me."
He said he was determined to give back to the Black community so that it might survive and even prosper. It was his belief in the hope of hope in the Black neighborhoods.
"Sometimes, I wish I were still blind," Fulcher said. "Because if I were still blind, I wouldn't have to worry about it.
"The thing about it is that I couldn't give any of it up. And I know that, I know that I can't give it up because it's me. I wouldn't be the same."
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