School Days & Second Cuts

All Along the GirlTower, 1977-1979

I entered college the way some people enter a witness protection program. I was supposed to start my “new life,” but I had no idea what that looked like. I was in a disguise— I looked like a freckle-faced undergraduate, but I had come out of an underground cell.

Jay Levin was desperate for reporters when he started the LA Weekly, so my socialist newspape…