Sunday, January 15, 2006
Alito's Speech To CAP Discovered
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 - An aide to Senator Edward Kennedy discovered a number of documents pertaining to Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel A. Alito's membership in the ultra-conservative organization, Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP). Alito, who claimed he didn't remember joining the organization or participating in any of its activities despite listing his membership on his resume when he applied for a job in the Reagan Administration, apparently was quite active according to the documents.
Alito gave a speech before CAP members during alumni weekend in 1985 where he claimed that women and minorities were lowering the standards of his beloved alma mater. He suggested that women, especially attractive women, were a serious distraction to young Princeton men who should be concentrating on their studies and not on the opposite sex.
"If the admissions office would only accept the most homely looking girls who wear thick glasses, are flat-chested, and have some apparent physical deformity, that would be acceptable," he told CAP members. "Princeton undergraduates should develop their bodies by participating in intercollegiate and not intercourse activities," he added.
Alito went on to claim that black students are inherently lazy and slow witted and recommended that if Princeton felt some social obligation to this minority group, the school should develop an overseas campus somewhere out-of-sight in Africa. He proposed two-year programs such as Minstrel Singing and Cotton History leading to an associates degree from Princedum U, Congo Campus.
As far as Jews are concerned, Alito recommended in his speech a requirement that they convert to Christianity during their freshman year. "As a group they are very bright but socially they are an embarrassment," he told fellow CAP members. "We need to teach them about the joys of eating white, spongy bread, spreading mayonnaise on their ham sandwiches, and stop them from using UnPrincetonian-like vocabulary such as "oy-vey" and "chutzpah."
Alito proposed an annual CAP event called "The Abraham & Andee Show" where members put on black faces, dressed in drag, and danced the hora around the Princeton campus. He said it would send a subtle message to certain high school students who were thinking about applying to the University. "There is no reason to say that women, blacks and Jews are not welcome, but we certainly can make them uncomfortable if and when they get here," Alito pointed out.
The Republican leadership responded to this new information by saying that it doesn't diminish, in any way, their support for the Supreme Court nominee. "He remains a fine, honorable jurist who will defend the constitution," said Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter.
Alito gave a speech before CAP members during alumni weekend in 1985 where he claimed that women and minorities were lowering the standards of his beloved alma mater. He suggested that women, especially attractive women, were a serious distraction to young Princeton men who should be concentrating on their studies and not on the opposite sex.
"If the admissions office would only accept the most homely looking girls who wear thick glasses, are flat-chested, and have some apparent physical deformity, that would be acceptable," he told CAP members. "Princeton undergraduates should develop their bodies by participating in intercollegiate and not intercourse activities," he added.
Alito went on to claim that black students are inherently lazy and slow witted and recommended that if Princeton felt some social obligation to this minority group, the school should develop an overseas campus somewhere out-of-sight in Africa. He proposed two-year programs such as Minstrel Singing and Cotton History leading to an associates degree from Princedum U, Congo Campus.
As far as Jews are concerned, Alito recommended in his speech a requirement that they convert to Christianity during their freshman year. "As a group they are very bright but socially they are an embarrassment," he told fellow CAP members. "We need to teach them about the joys of eating white, spongy bread, spreading mayonnaise on their ham sandwiches, and stop them from using UnPrincetonian-like vocabulary such as "oy-vey" and "chutzpah."
Alito proposed an annual CAP event called "The Abraham & Andee Show" where members put on black faces, dressed in drag, and danced the hora around the Princeton campus. He said it would send a subtle message to certain high school students who were thinking about applying to the University. "There is no reason to say that women, blacks and Jews are not welcome, but we certainly can make them uncomfortable if and when they get here," Alito pointed out.
The Republican leadership responded to this new information by saying that it doesn't diminish, in any way, their support for the Supreme Court nominee. "He remains a fine, honorable jurist who will defend the constitution," said Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter.
