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The Detroit News Inside Pop goes the culture In the prize-winning slackers wax profane over the little things: hockey, sex and existence Page4C to Section Saturday, October 22, 1994 J. B. DlXSON -s 1 1 i Iiifnhi'lf 4 Neil Pasha, left, and James say fear over the Ann Arbor rapist has rendered every black man suspect. A City on The search for a rapist has women scared, blacks angry and Ann Arbor in turmoil "The problem is that the police released a profile so general it includes nearly every black man walking down the street." Raymond MULLINS By Michael H. Hodges The Detroit News These days when the sun sets, a bit of Manhattan-style terror steals into Washtenaw County: All across Ann Arbor, single women vanish from the landscape, while the few out alone in the midst of the city's ongoing rape crisis are usually tethered to large dogs.

Keys are carried weaponlike, poking out through clenched fists; friends are made to call the moment they get home; and answer bright, has been turned up even higher. And police besieged by women desperate for all possible information, and assailed by blacks for alleged over-zealousness please no one. Women are angry. The black community is angry. The two regard one another across the public spaces with a mix of suspicion and guilt Lawyer's dirty and sexist campaign shows he has no judicial restraint I don't know Susan Moiseev very well, but the attack levied against her by an opponent for her Oakland County District Court seat put me in mind of that old saw about the differences in the way people perceive the same behavior in men and women: He has confidence.

She's arrogant. He has high standards. She's a slave driver. He's dedicated to his job. She has no other life.

He refuses to put up with fools. She's irritable and impatient. He's strong. She's pushy. He lets you know where he stands.

She's rude. He's having a bad day. She has PMS. It goes on, but you get the point. The sleazy campaign tactics used by Judge Moiseev's opponent, Stephen Korn, whom she trounced 60 percent vs.

20 percent in the primary, include a survey he paid for after the Oakland County Bar Association rated Moiseev as "outstanding" and him as "not rated" because he refused to participate in the rating process. The anonymous survey asked lawyers what they thought of Moiseev's "judicial temperament." Barely 9 percent of those polled even bothered to return the survey and, not surprisingly, after 8V2 years on the bench, it turned out that the judge has a few non-fans. Korn then made a booklet out of his survey "results" and included 45 pages of mostly handwritten comments from lawyers before mailing it to voters. The comments contain sexist and anti-Semitic remarks that I doubted the lawyers would choose to make public, especially in their own handwriting, but they were not given that choice. The judicial wannabe who paid for the "anonymous" poll never warned the respondents that he would use their remarks in his campaign literature.

There are only two women out of 30 some judges in the 46th District Court. The male judges' "judicial temperament" was not questioned in this poll, nor of course were the lawyers queried as to their opinion of Korn's own qualifications or lack thereof. In every court case, someone wins and someone loses. One lawyer thinks the judge was a veritable Solomon and the other swears (s)he was a dunce. Some lawyers are late, unprepared and histrionic; some judges react vehemently.

Such is life. Both the Oakland County Bar Association (OCBA) and the State Bar of Michigan were appalled enough at Korn's unprecedented act of sleaze that they issued public statements calling Korn's tactics "reprehensible," "repugnant" and in violation of "not just our canons of ethics but common decency as well." Wendy L. Potts, OCBA president, said, "It's a sad commentary when a lawyer attacks a sitting judge who cannot respond." She noted that the Code of Judicial Ethics, which prevents Moiseev from defending herself, also requires that candidates such as Korn conduct campaigns with "the dignity appropriate to judicial office." Sounds to me like Stevie's blown it before he's even gotten a robe. His defense of himself to date Please see DIXSOX. 2C "I'm sorry my suspicion compounds an existing social injustice, but I value my hide, and am just not going to apologize for that." Jeannette Gutierrez ing machines all across town have been repro-gramed to urge callers not to drop their guard.

Daylight brings little relief. The city's wooded areas and parks, where several of the attacks have occurred, are shunned as one would skirt the slums. In the meantime, the serial rapist remains at large as a siege mentality and baffled empathy. Everyone wants the rapist caught, says Robert Coleman, a middle-age African American with an otherwise affectionate take on his town, but Ann Arbor seems to have the perception "that only whites are victims of violent crime. If this rapist were white, it wouldn't be such a big deal same as if his victims were black." It's an opinion heard from coffeehouses to the city's dilapidated public housing projects.

Playing craps with friends outside the South Maple Apartments, Mike Kent, 15, expresses the skepticism voiced everywhere in the black community. "The description they've given could fit any black man," he says with a shrug. "I don't think they would've done that to white guys." Most of the attacks have occurred on the Please see RAPE, 4C settles over the city of trees, and residents square off into opposing camps. Women aren't the only ones to feel reality's unwelcome smack. Because at least two rape victims have identified the suspect as black, men throughout this city's small African American-community complain they now feel the spotlight on them, always Photos by Donna Terek The Detroit News Bookstore owners Lyn Kelly, left, and Kate Burkhardt never walk alone anymore.

Local ministers will ask CBS to keep the faith and their programing I CBS would realistically consider keeping relatively low-rated religious programs on WGPR's schedule. "Some may consider any religion program 'low-rated' if it's not entertainment," he responded. "We receive thousands of letters. We would expect them (CBS), as a responsible business entity acquiring an African-American station, to keep some of those vital community interests on the air." Asked whether moving their programs to cable wasn't an option, the ministers said that many of their telecasts already run on cable and nationally, via satellite as well as on Channel 62. "The revenue that we receive from viewers really isn't a significant amount," said Pastor Wayne T.

Jackson of Great Faith Ministries. "What we will be losing is the ability to minister to prisons, convalescent centers, hospitals and people who can't afford cable." programing on WGPR after it becomes a CBS-owned affiliate. "What CBS said initially is that they are going to keep the faith of the community," Brooks noted. "We want them to hold to that." CBS spokesman Tom Goodman confirmed that Jonathan Rodgers, president of the CBS Television Stations division, "is looking forward to" meeting with the ministers on or before Nov. 2.

WGPR, the nation's first black-owned television station, has historically devoted a healthy portion of its broadcast schedule to religious programs produced by local churches, both in prime time and on Sundays. The churches pay Channel 62 for the air time, providing the bulk of the independent station's revenues. Merritt stressed that the group is not challenging the sale of WGPR to CBS by the International Free Accepted Masons. But he maintained that the ministers have Metro Detroit clergy hope Channel 62 won't squeeze them out of their traditional broadcast home. By Jim McFarlin Detroit News Television Critic Setting into action their belief that "through God, all things are possible," Detroit African-American ministers believe they can convince CBS to continue airing their religious programs on Channel 62 (WGPR) after the network assumes control Dec.

11. At a press conference Friday at Detroit's Straight Gate Church, the alliance of ministers, led by Bishop P.A. Brooks of New St. Paul Tabernacle and Bishop Andrew Merritt of Straight Gate, said they plan to hold a meeting with CBS officials within the next 10 days. They hope to discuss the network's specific plans for local lit -'I'- Bishop Andrew Merritt: "It was not that we wanted anything for free." "It was not that we wanted anything for free," Merritt said of the other stations.

"They were not available to us, period." Brooks was asked if he thought Bishop P.A. Brooks: "Some may consider any religion program been denied access to air time on virtually every other Detroit TV station, and they do not intend to be squeezed out of their traditional broadcast home..