we cannot heal without discussing what has occurred,” writes Jessy Wallach PO ’29. “For better or worse, we are experienced at grieving these tragedies. Let us not grow experienced in having these incidents fail to register as tragedies at all.”
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Reading My Surroundings: Lessons from Mount Baldy
Jessy Wallach PO ‘29, writes about Leonard Cohen’s “Leaving Mt. Baldy” and her experience at the Claremont colleges. She draws striking comparisons between Cohen’s stay at the Mount Baldy Zen Center and the promised utopia of college.

