Jacob Koch
Jacob Koch
Recent Stories
Koch: Yale needs Urban Studies
Last semester I left Yale to pursue something I couldn’t find here: an education in urban studies. After taking a range of classes relating to cities in my sophomore year and the first semester of my junior year, I was finally fed up with the fact that Yale offered not one single class about non-American cities. I went on a program called “Cities in the 21st Century,” which took me to Sao Paulo and Curitiba, Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; and Hanoi, Vietnam. I studied urban planning, politics and culture, and I realized how much my education had been lacking at Yale.
Yale for Change: Get up and go
“This is the most important election of our lifetime.”
Koch: To Palin, he says ‘victory’
It was not that long ago that people said the differences between Republicans and Democrats were negligible. But after watching both conventions these past weeks, it is clear that this dichotomy is no longer true.
Today’s youth not guilty of political, social apathy
Why do I have to keep listening to complaints that my generation is apathetic? On Tuesday of this week the Harvard Crimson published an article titled “Alums Protest Student Apathy.” The article details how 13 members of the Class of 1967 sent an open letter to Harvard President Drew Faust bemoaning the “widespread apathy and political indifference” of today’s Harvard students.
Fallen off the Road in the 21st Century
The 50th anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” has sparked much debate in the academic and journalistic communities about the meanings and lessons of the Beat opus.
Ward 22’s Morehead has earned a full term
In just five months, Morehead has already been successful in implementing changes in Ward 22, and residents can now see that he is not only a candidate who can think big, but also an alderman who can produce results.