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January 11, 2006
"Concerned Alumni of Princeton" in the New York Times, 1984
I don't know, but I do know that articles on controversies swirling around the organization and its magazine appeared in the pages of the New York Times twice in 1984.
From the New York Times, April 29, 1984:
Prospect Magazine, a conservative monthly publication financed by a group of Princeton University alumni, has been the center of controversy from time to time on campus during its 12-year history.From the New York Times, March 24, 1984:. . .
Prospect, which was founded by William Rusher, an editor of the National Review, has attacked the university's policies on minority admissions, absence of athletic scholarships, and religious nondenominationalism.
Robert Durkee, Princeton's vice president for public affairs, said he had been disturbed by the attacks on the university by a magazine whose editors have mostly been Dartmouth graduates.
He said Prospect had become "outwardly destructive and irresponsible" since Mr. D'Souza became its editor.
A group of undergraduates at Princeton University, upset over an article in a conservative alumni magazine that makes allegations about the personal life of a female freshman, is circulating a petition asking that the magazine no longer be delivered to their dormitory rooms.The article appears in the March issue of Prospect, published monthly by the Concerned Alumni of Princeton....
The article, written by the magazine's editors, Dinesh D'Souza, ... discusses the young woman's sex life....
In previous articles, the magazine has referred to the director of the Women's Center at Princeton as "the wicked witch of the Princeton Women's Center" and to a Hispanic assistant dean of students as "señor."
Posted by Eric at January 11, 2006 2:44 PM
Comments
CAP significantly predates my Princeton tenure, but if you check those stories, you'll see that they were hardly front page material.
Both were buried rather deeply in the paper -- one in the New Jersey section, if I'm reading ProQuest correctly. It's not implausible that someone wouldn't have been aware of them.
Few of us have time -- much as I'd like to -- to read the NYT cover-to-cover anymore.
Posted by: David Nieporent at January 19, 2006 4:37 PM
No student on campus in the mid-1980s could possibly forget CAP and its antics. The latter story, in particular, was big news -- it apparently caused a legal scuffle behind the scenes and led to CAP's demise. Laura Ingraham briefly took over as editor after D'Souza, publishing one lukewarm issue.
Interesting that Alito, whose friends/classmates in 1972 founded CAP, would mention CAP on a job application in 1985 -- a year after the organization needed money and good legal advice.
Interesting that for the purposes of his sworn testimony, Alito has "forgotten" all about CAP, even though he was close friends with its founders.
Posted by: QuickSilver at August 16, 2006 2:30 PM