Remembering Jim Pagels, CC ’13: ‘Brilliant, hilarious, unique, and passionate’
Remembering Jim Pagels, CC ’13: ‘Brilliant, hilarious, unique, and passionate’
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Remembering Jim Pagels, CC ’13: ‘Brilliant, hilarious, unique, and passionate’
Remembering Jim Pagels, CC ’13: ‘Brilliant, hilarious, unique, and passionate’
Image courtesy of Kunal Gupta
Jim Pagels, CC ’13 and former Spectator sports editor and columnist, died on Friday. He was 29.
Pagels’ death was the result of a five-car chain-reaction crash in Washington, D.C. He was struck by a vehicle at 7:30 p.m. on April 9, while cycling on Massachusetts Avenue. Earlier that day, Pagels had received his second COVID-19 vaccine and tweeted about the dangers of cycling through the New York Avenue/Montana Avenue traffic circle. Hours before his death, he wrote alongside a Google Maps image of the roundabout, “Had to bike through a roundabout over a highway to get my Covid jab. Lifespan maximization function is clearly perfectly well-calibrated.”