Erasing History

Eric Muller has an interesting finding with respect to Concerned Alumni for Princeton, the group whose concern was that women and minorities would ruin campus life and make it harder for unqualified legacies to be admitted. Ultra-reactionary judge Sam Alito, as most of you know, was still expressing pride in his membership in this racist and sexist organization in 1985. Muller was interested to see a 1984 article in KKKCAP’s newsletter, which drew national attention by revealing a Princeton freshman woman’s name and discussing her sexual history. I suppose what happened isn’t surprising:

I thought it’d be interesting to see what the offending article actually said, so I asked someone at Princeton to track down the magazine in the campus library and send me a copy. It turned out there was a long wait for this obscure publication; not only was it already checked out, but another patron was in the request line ahead of my researcher.

My researcher finally got his hands on the issue yesterday.

The article in question has been cut out.

(Also razored out, incidentally, is an article entitled “Sexuality at Old Nassau” in the March 1975 issue of CAP’s magazine.)

Seems like the right punchline for a story involving Strip Search Sammy and our Royal President.