Rez(life) Mag Doesn't Need Sex to Sell

Rez(life) Mag Doesn't Need Sex to Sell

The marketplace is littered with tons of magazines, and now Marc Andrew Deley is throwing his publication into the heap. Ironically, the Boston College dropout started a magazine written for college students by college students. Can he even use that tagline if he's no longer in college?


Started at BC and distributed for free at colleges around the country, Rez(life) Magazine covers lifestyle, fashion, entertainment and sports. The first issue came out last December and the second, and most recent, hit campuses in April, both featuring student-created work with students as the models in the photos.
 

But what sets Rez(life) apart is its high-end approach to the college scene. That and the fact that it does this without naked girls!
 

Compared to Harvard’s H-Bomb magazine and Boink at Boston University, which focus on sex and the salacious, Rez(life) is a “sedate antidote to those soft-porn literary outlets,” according to the Boston Globe.
 

Sedate? Really?
 

Sounds like a snoozer to me. But Deley insists, “You can have girls in dresses that are just as sexy and just as hot as women who are naked.”

 

This is no doubt true, but will college students buy it?
 

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Comments

Anonymous
In a word, no, they won't. Posted 07/16/2008 6:54 PMReply
Anonymous
... they give it away for free so college students don't need to 'buy it' Posted 07/16/2008 7:55 PMReply
Anonymous
it's a free magazine ... if you are a real journalist, you would have checked up on that. Posted 07/17/2008 3:22 PMReply
The Candle
If you read carefully, you'll see I did mention it is free. What I meant was whether college students would figuratively "buy" the concept, not literally pay for the magazine, though I understand the confusion. Posted 07/17/2008 5:23 PMReply

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