Regarding “Being happy at Princeton” (Monday, May 10, 2010)
[Tuesday], at lunchtime, on the corner of Prospect & Washington, I called out for two hours for students to vote for my friend Jill Jachera for mayor. I said that the election would be decided by 100 votes. And so it was. Yina Moore ’79 defeated Jill.
Jill was endorsed by the ‘Prince’; Yina Moore never came to the Whig-Clio debate. Does it matter? It matters to me because I’ve lived here for four years, and I have three children, and I’m 50. But here’s the thing: on the most gorgeous of November days, you collegians were trudging back and forth to the clubs on Prospect or class, mostly looking glum, hardly anyone smiling. Okay, so you might not have wanted to talk to some middle-aged woman in a “Vote for Jill” T-shirt, but really ... was it so bad?
Maybe it’s because I went to a southern school in the 1980s, but aren’t you happy? My advice is to look up and try to smell the proverbial roses. The 1,000 registered voters on campus had a chance to swing this election, but less than 100 of you showed up to vote in person on Tuesday, and less than 100 returned absentee ballots. You could have swung this election. Instead, Yina Moore, a mediocre alumna, beat a highly qualified leader who wanted to give students a vote and was willing to support the Arts and Transit Center.
Fortunately, consolidation did pass and Forbes College will no longer sit on an arbitrary line between the Township and Borough. In any event, my old-person advice is: Try to be more joyful — find even little things that make you happy. It is a big bad world out there, so enjoy Princeton while you can. Really, don’t be so sad after lunch tomorrow. Maybe I’ll see you on Prospect & Washington next year. After all, Yina Moore was only elected for 365 days.
Beth Covin, S ’91
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