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At Middleton, he joined the hippie counter-culture and met his future wife [[Helen Morgendorffer|Helen]] there. The counter-culture was a calming influence to the seething cauldron of repressed rage and hatred for the world around him and for his father, and he became an extremely cheery optimist with a firm belief in the counter-culture's ideals and rejecting the modern world. He and Helen were arrested in summer 1969 as a student and once protested outside the Pentagon, where he got enraged and kicked the building. ("[[That Was Then, This Is Dumb]]")He attended [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert Altamont ''Free'' Concert] and somehow ''got his money back'' ("[[Road Worrier]]"). Hippie friends included [[Willow Yeager|Willow]] and [[Coyote Yeager|Coyote]]
The couple graduated in 1972 ("[[The Daria Database]]") and moved into a commune together with their friends. In July 26 1975 they got married. ("Diaries" and "[[The Daria Database]]") His father didn't bother to turn up for the wedding ("[[Of Human Bonding]]") and died shortly thereafter.
Like many hippies, Jake and Helen rejected the 1960s counter-culture by the end of the 1970s and began working in the corporate world. Jake in particular began work in the advertisement industry, with little success. Adding to his strife was the fact that Jake worked for a rather controlling boss who treated Jake poorly (whom he referred to as a "mini-Mussolini" in the episode "[[Boxing Daria]]") and further verbally abused Jake on a regular basis.
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