Interesting article in The Daily Princetonian regarding Alito and CAP

[theHandpuppet]

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/11/18/news/13876.shtml

Alito '72 joined conservative alumni group
Concerned Alumni of Princeton known to be anti-coeducation

Chanakya Sethi
Princetonian Senior Writer

Clarification appended

Earlier this week, recently released documents drew attention for showing that, in a 1985 job application, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito '72 wrote that he is "particularly proud" of his work on cases arguing that "racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion."

Now, opponents to his nomination are using another piece of information from those documents to suggest he is far outside the mainstream in his political and social views: Near the end of his "Personal Qualifications Statement" for a high-level job in Ronald Reagan's Justice Department, Alito wrote that he was "a member of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton University, a conservative alumni group."

Interviews with several alumni who were students in the 1970s paint a picture of Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) as a far-right organization funded by conservative alumni committed to turning back the clock on coeducation at the University....

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[ClintonTyree]

1. So Alito's self respect and honor is up for sale.......

Some alumni have suggested, however, that Alito's association with CAP may not be exclusively about politics, but also about networking for the job market.

"Probably the most cynical view was that undergraduates wanted to ingratiate themselves so that they had good summer jobs," Lee Kaplan '73 said. "Other people thought that they were truly committed individuals who were swimming against the prevailing political tide."

A possible networking connection involves Terry Eastland, who served in the Justice Department during the Reagan administration and was involved with CAP, according to two people familiar with the group who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue.

"That would have been a good connection for Sam," one of the individuals said.

:eyes: He'll do whatever it takes in order to get the job, prostitute his values, honor and self respect in order to get :in with the in crowd". Fuck him. This man isn't fit to be a Supreme Court Justice.