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...collective squirming of the eight exclusive clubs’ prospective politicos could be sensed. The senator’s affiliation with the club was questioned late last week by conservatives after Kennedy lambasted Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito for his membership in the conservative group Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP). Though Kennedy’s disassociation with the Owl was likely motivated by political expedience, it was an appreciated gesture. We have expressed our distaste for the offensive and antiquated nature of final clubs ad nauseam. We demur at the exclusion of women—individuals who make up half...
Alito listed his CAP ties on a 1985 application for a Justice Department post, though Alito subsequently said that he had “no recollection” of his membership in the group...
...Many CAP members wanted their alma mater to remain all-male, according to a 1974 New York Times report. And a Princeton alumnus alleged in an op-ed for the Daily Princetonian student newspaper this past November that CAP opposed “the mere presence of women and minorities” at the school...
...Alito’s disavowal of CAP didn’t mollify Kennedy. The Democrat cited “CAP’s troubling opposition to equal educational opportunity for women, minorities, and the disabled” in a December letter to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa. And Kennedy raised the issue again at Alito’s confirmation hearings last week...
Radio host Rush Limbaugh said on his broadcast, “Do you remember what the Owl Club was? Exactly what [Kennedy] was trying to make people think that CAP was at Princeton: a bunch of rich white kids who only wanted to associate with themselves...