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Kennedy’s affiliation with the Harvard final club drew national attention after the senator criticized Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. for having once joined Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP), which opposed the integration of women at Alito’s alma mater...
...Supreme Court fight in Washington yesterday as conservatives criticized Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s membership in the club. Republican activists said that Kennedy, the senior Democrat from Massachusetts, had been hypocritical for attacking Judge Samuel A. Alito’s membership in Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP), a conservative group founded in 1972 in part to oppose coeducation at the university. Alito claimed to be a member of the alumni group in a 1985 job application. Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh sought to equate the Owl with CAP on his show yesterday. “Ted Kennedy...
...modus operandi, but it was unusual for him to admit that outright. Perhaps he felt comfortable inside the confines of what was ostensibly an off-the-record meeting, though nothing said among 40 professors is private. Or perhaps he thought he could remove his University president’s cap for an hour, though he has since acknowledged, in an interview last February, that “your words will never be heard in a way that is entirely separated from your role as president.”Whatever motivated Summers toward provocation that day, it is now a clich?...
...through the lens of these memories that I watched the Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) matter unfold in the Alito confirmation hearings. Judge Alito was an undergraduate at Princeton at the very moment the school went co-ed. It seems that, like many men of his vintage, he opposed the admission of women and/or affirmative action for minorities. At least that's the implication of his joining CAP, a group formed to preserve the Princeton of yore as an elite academy for white males. Yet Alito, a man with a highly orderly mind, is oddly vague about his association with...
...Alito now says that the anti-female and racist views of CAP are "antithetical" to his personal beliefs. Maybe so. But being part of CAP was consistent with his opposition to affirmative action and easy to remember back when it suited him. That Alito's name did not turn up in a search of CAP papers demanded by Ted Kennedy has been seen as vindication for the judge-a sign that Democrats were overreaching on this minor matter. The hearing's ?biggest bang? on Wednesday, writes the Washington Post, thus ended in a whimper...