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OT IS ALITO MORE OF A SEXIST, OR A RACIST?
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Membership in "Concerned Alumni of Princeton." In 1972, the year Alito
graduated from Princeton University, a group of wealthy alumni formed
Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) to resist the growing influx of
female, African American, Hispanic and even disabled students who were
changing the face of Princeton "as you knew it." The university's most
famous alumnus of the day, basketball star and later U.S. senator Bill
Bradley, was invited into CAP initially but quickly found it
"impossible to remain a member" because of CAP's "right-wing" views. A
special committee of alumni, which included future Senate Majority
Leader Bill Frist, accused CAP of presenting a "distorted and hostile"
view of the university. Alito joined CAP about that time, despite its
purposes and reputation, and remained a member through 1985, when he
cited his CAP membership as another qualification to join the Meese
inner circle.
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