Growing up in public
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This News-Letter article recounts George Yatchisin’s memories of writing for the paper as a Hopkins student and the career that followed.
- The News-Letter reported that Yatchisin was a freshman under 18 when he wrote a review of U2’s debut album.
- The paper reported that his News-Letter experience led to a paid job at the Baltimore City Paper before he graduated.
- The article adds that Yatchisin later wrote a cocktail column for Edible Santa Barbara and became communications director at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education.
- The reporter writes that he returned to community radio after first working at the 10-watt WJHU, saying Hopkins had left him with “hearty roots.”
- The article says Yatchisin covered the student council when Michael Steele was president, before Steele became Maryland’s lieutenant governor and chairman of the Republican National Committee.