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More letters from alumni about Wasteful balloting

July 4, 2001 PAW
Is every candidate for alumni trustee barren, unmated, or simply opposed to reproduction? Do these success-driven supermen and women even like children?
Bios of trustee candidates shipped to us for evaluation-before-voting don’t reveal whether candidates are mothers or fathers, and the number of their children. This information was standard in candidate bios for decades.

Trustees function as “parents” to thousands of Princeton students by helping shape university policies that facilitate or impede the success of their education.
It’s important to some of us that most (not all) of the professionally proven alumni we’re asked to consider for trustee think enough about the next generation that they also participate in creating it. Thus they will care about kids, have firsthand experience in coaching and financing their march to maturity, and thus can make informed decisions about how best to underwrite and educate promising sons and daughters in the Princeton environment.

Superfathers and supermothers should dominate the trustee candidate roster for these reasons. By the same token, the few of us who take the time to review candidate bios and vote for these key delegates should be given a broader snapshot of their priorities and achievements, including parenthood.

Rob Mack ’62
Palos Verdes Peninsula, Calif.

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