Sam Alito pleaded ignorance on his membership in the Concerned Alumni of Princeton. Well, Sam, here's a refresher.
- You seemed to remember joining the organization in 1985, when you cited your membership as a reason for the Reagan justice department to promote you (the organization folded a year later) ...
- You have to this day, including during today's hearings, never disavowed the group, despite its long history of extreme views on the "comingling of the sexes" and races...
- The organization was founded in 1972 (the year you graduated from Princeton, coincidentally...) on the following basis, according to Wikipedia:
Among other things, the group opposed the university's switch to coeducation from an all male model as well as the policy of affirmative action designed to increase minority attendance at the Ivy League institution. Generally speaking, the group in its early years regarded itself as a defender of an all male, explicitly Christian Princeton. - The group also published a magazine, with these tidbits that students at other colleges in your day, including Joe Biden and Bill Frist, remember quite well:
"Prospect" was founded in October 1972 by the then-newly-formed CAP, which was co-chaired by Asa Bushnell '21 and Shelby Cullom Davis '30. The latter, who was the University's largest donor at the time, was a strong traditionalist, firmly opposed to the many of the new directions Princeton was taking, including coeducation.
He wrote in "Prospect": "May I recall, and with some nostalgia, my father's 50th reunion, a body of men, relatively homogenous in interests and backgrounds, who had known and liked each other over the years during which they had contributed much in spirit and substance to the greatness of Princeton," according to an account in "The Chosen," a book by Jerome Karabel on the history of admissions at Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
"I cannot envisage a similar happening in the future," Davis added, "with an undergraduate student population of approximately 40% women and minorities, such as the Administration has proposed." - What the Prospect writers and founders apparently failed to write much about, was the ROTC, ostensibly your reason for joining the group...
- The CAP records are neatly tucked away in the Library of Congress archives. Might you support releasing them?
More on Alito's record regarding the broad area of "discrimination" here and here. And by the way, don't look for the National Association of Woman Lawyers to stand up on behalfof Alito. They declined to support his nomination... Previous: Tags: Supreme Court, Politics, SCOTUS, Law, News, Alito, Sam Alito |
