Wait--there are conservatives at Princeton?!?!?!

The New York Times digs up Sam Alito's connection to the conservative/reactionary Concerned Alumni of Princeton, the group that was founded in 1972 to protest the admission of women as undergraduates and which later accused the University of lowering its admission standards as the proportion of minority students rose in the 1980s. (NYT)

I hate to tell you this if you are one of the people who like bash on academia--and especially the Ivies--for being a bastion of rampant elitist liberalism, but--the whole place is run by extremely wealthy white people.*

So while it is still concerning that President Bush's most recent nominee to the Supreme Court is connected to such an organization, and that such an organization once existed at Old Nassau, it is not really surprising.

*Rampant elitism, separate from any particular ideological bent, is really the issue.