PERSPE CTIVES
Friday, June 10, 1988
t The Michigan Daily
Page 7
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A glimpse
BY JOSHUA RAYLEVIN out of the back si
nothing in her ha
For those men who cannot com- something like, "
prehend the fear in which women bundle?" thinking t
live... of my fellow deliver
I was out delivering Dailys last The way her head
Thursday night; we were running towards me immed
late, and it was about 3:30 a.m. I had called out to a
was delivering with two other When you talk to sc
staffers, one male, one female. We confused with some
split up at the LSA building, and as the day, you just fe
they went in, I ran over to the when you do what I
Fleming Building to drop off a dlc of the night on
subscription bundle. and all the woman s
As I headed back towards the rear unkept man shoutin
of LSA, I saw a woman walking at her, it is a lot mo
Magazine offc
BY VERONICA WOOLRIDGE
Hey bouys and gulls. It's a beau-
tiful day in the neighborhood. The
sun is shining. The birds are
singing and hey, it's Saturday and
we don't have to go to class. This
presents us ample opportunity to
read our magazine, Moving Up,
which landed on our doorstep Fri-
day.
We're not sure how it got there.
Maybe by some strange phenomena
like the all-powerful Zeus, which
we learned from story time at the
library. Or maybe it was dropped by
the will of God which we learned
Ffrom the televised Babtist Preach-
ers. Or just maybe, maybe Mr.
Mailman put the magazine in our
little black mailbox. Hmm, which
could it be? Who could have done
such a ding? I'll take a peek inside
the magazine and tell you what I
see.
I checked out the magazine and
what did I see.
Wonderful phraseology that para-
lyzed me.
It's a magazine for the Upper-
classman.
That point is just a clear as cream.
How nice, a floating sentiment
from a pre-historic Neanderthal's
wet dream.
Music and Magazine are two dif-
ferent things. And you may be
wondering what this understanding
lbrings. I'm showing you this mag-
azine through a medium you're not
soon to forget. It's a musical rap.
I'm getting out the crap. I read the
magazine - well spent time. I'll
tell you why. I'll lay it on the line.
"Upperclassmon" - my thoughts
settle on the word.
Upperclassmon sounds like reg-
gae's rasta mon, the two come from
completely different worlds. I pause
over regurgitated sentiments of
Marley's musical melodies. I flip
through the pages of "The Modern
Man's Guide to Life" - parodies?
Life mon, that's
about, that's how
sings it and that's h
mon reads it. Moi
when an upperclas
wu-mon, these are t
wumon weally wa
kind of dude. A fre
sensitive and carin
sensible women
Moving Up news.
Modern mon says;
this, Bub - "as cl
will allow to a men
Moving Up is a
tells people to "learn
with conviction, k
bending their knees
cerely at a guy w
carry their knife byr
This wonderful ad
each page. Apparen
mon "can't figure
oppressed sisterhoo
big deal out of clea
I wunder what press
such wimits of spic
Maybe, as modern
"the best approach
sure-fire division -
ally to hit a raw n
woman peevedv
women tend to coni
emotions."
What confuses m
my emotion, is wh
editors contribute
zine's production.
man is the seniorc
Dickey is the copy
M. Weeks is the
lisher. What I wa
women, whose si
mon?
I don't know what
of Moving Up are
the average intelligi
class student, but th
showcase, a wet dre
the making. Mr. S
the Editor, sho
anachronistic mind
Up elsewhere. Plea
to:
into the danger of the night
de door with looking foolish. her nervous. But I didn't walk ately realized there was nothing I
nds. I yelled As soon as she spun around at away; I guess I thought I would could tell the police to prove my
Where's your me and I realized I had been mis- just solidify her obvious assump- innocence, but I still didn't run. I
hat she was one taken, we both froze. Motionless. I tion about me, and that would scare still was frozen.
ers. wanted to yell to her and explain her more. So I just froze where I Fortunately, the staircase from
snapped around my error but I couldn't; if I had ap- was standing, praying someone like that door in LSA has windows, and
iately told me I proached her she would have been a cop would come by and relieve I could see my two colleagues
total stranger. more frightened, and what would this woman of her fear. coming down the stairs as the
omeone you've you think if some man on a de- After we stood there for what woman went in the door. I called
one else during serted road at 3:30 in the morning seemed to be a very long time, the out to my friends to ask the woman
el really stupid; walked over to you and said, "Don't woman started walking slowly to wait. She heard me yell and came
did in the mid- worry, I'm not going to hurt you?" across Maynard St. toward what I to the doorway. I slowly crossed the
a deserted road I also thought to turn away and assumed was her car. She dug her street and approached as close to her
ees is a scruffy, run, just as I would cross the street car keys out of her purse and held as I dared. I said, "Excuse me
ig out inanities if I was walking behind a woman at them firmly, the way I had heard ma'am, but I think I must have
ore serious than night and could tell I was making women were told to do when facing startled you." What an understate-
a potential assailant. ment. I then pointed to my female
1 A TTs w o m e n As she got closer (I was standing colleague with her newspaper bun-
d w o m e n on the curb, about five feet away die and explained howI had con-
from her car), under the street light, fused the two of them. The woman
what it's all Car-rt sort, student resident, Ann I could see the woman's face: abso- said that I had indeed scared her, and
the Rastamon Arbor Michigan - I guess that lute terror. This woman was so ob- looked much relieved.
how the Modern means me viously afraid, and I was paralyzed I walked away with my friends,
dern mon says Over 600,000 upperclass students to do anything to help her. And I who jokingly teased me. However,
ssmon meets a receive quarterly publications of couldn't take my eyes off her, as we were leaving I started feeling
he wules: what Moving Up magazine during the though I tried to look away to make worse and worse. I hadn't done
nt is a macho school year. They receive the her feel less threatened. I doubt it anything malicious, I had just made
e thinking man, magazine "whether they like it or helped a mistake. But I started thinking
g, "make most not," said Weiner, who would not After what felt like forever, the about that woman's face, how I
puke," is the disclose the organzation that com- woman made it to her car and got made her her feel. How I had terri-
piles the student mail-list. in. She didn't start the car, or turn fied her. I still cannot believe I
a barber shop is Some es women are sent the on the lights; she just stared at me made someone feel that way.
-only clb. sh a e," saidgWzine. "Theres a mag- through her windshield, waiting for Although I started this article ad-
magazine that azines for women like Cosmo, and me to attack. After another forever, dressing is to other men, I guess I
she hit the brights, blinding me for am really writing this with the
n to lie and deny there are magazines for men like hoe that the woman I scared so
:isa ass without GQ." There is a speeial edition ofawieWhnIslldntmo - P
and asmilewin- Moing' oris woenand therei i fexcept to cover my eyes- she badly that night at the LSA build-
hand smile sin- Moving Up for women and there is gunned her engine and drove past ing will see this, and maybe be re-
hose back will a special edition for men. me. But, instad of driving away, lieved that I really wasn't out to
quitting time." Moving Up gives good straight- hurt her. Regardless, I did hurt her
vice varies with from-the-shoulder advice from how she pulled in to the driveway in hr e.RgrlsIddhr e
icyhe em oto handlesourgirlfriend, to how t back of the LSA building, and by putting her through an ordeal
tly, the ode be hnled, or inte o aob. t parked in the space right next to the that, sadly, so many other women
xi makes such a presents a realistic portrayal of life. back side door. caeaet.Fray mnwora
nig"d n k e ,h Moving Up speaks to people in f She checked to see if I had moved this, I hope they will understand,
ining." And gee, di g Ua shos te stdnt towards her, then quickly got out of through my first-hand experience,
and span stress. what life is really likeoutside of the car and made for the entrance. I just how they can make women feel
n sustss. the Ivy Walls." knew she was going in to call the - whether or not they are
mto women ... Weiner said it is ironic that what police, but I didn't run, again for "innocent" of any malicious inten-
try intention the magazine prints is true. He used the same reason; it would only tions.
erve. Getting a mci confirm her fears, and she would
ee-nm : n x " - forever think she stood in the face Levin is an Opinion page editor.
works because
fuse their strong
y intellect, not
y three women
to this maga-
Nancy Gottes-
editor, Shannon
editor, Patricia
associate pub-
nt to ask these
de are you on,
the perpetrators
assuming to be
ence of an upper
is magazine is a
am stereotype in
;tewart Weiner,
uld take his
I muck Moving
se do not send it
dsatisfaction as proof ta to at-
tract a woman's attention all you
have to do is make her angry.
"When you sideswipe a woman's
politics you get attention," said
Weiner. I told him if you get any-
one peeved, not just a woman, then
you are going to get attention. He
said I was right. In fact, through the
whole discussion he kept saying I
was right and he apologized if the
May 1988 edition of Moving Up
offended. Weiner said women writ-
ers and staffers of Moving
Up, particularly the senior editor,
thought it was "terrific."
Weiner explained that a woman
student who writes for the magazine
said the opinions the magazine pre-
sented were true and sometimes the
truth hurts.
Woolridge is a Daily news staffer.
of a rapist on the street. I immedi-
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