Buried deep in Sheryl Gay Stolberg's profile of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor in the NYT today:

When Ms. Sotomayor arrived at Princeton in the fall of 1972, she was one of the only Latinos there: there were no professors, no administrators, and only a double-digit number of students. Princeton women were sharply outnumbered as well; the first ones had been admitted only a few years earlier, and some alumni had protested their increasing ranks. (Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who graduated just a few months before Ms. Sotomayor arrived, belonged to one of the groups that protested.)

The group that Alito belonged to was called Concerned Alumni of Princeton. (He mentioned his membership on a job application to work in the Reagan administration in 1985—you can read a pdf of that application here. [Dear internet: you are amazing.] It's toward the end of the typewritten section that begins "I am and have always been a conservative...") A writer for the right-wing website Times Watch ("Documenting and Exposing the Liberal Political Agenda of the New York Times") writes today, in response to that parenthetical about Alito in Stolberg's piece:

Hmm. Did Alito protest against more women at Princeton? He was a nominal member of a conservative student group, Concerned Alumni of Princeton, which protested affirmative action, but that's not quite the same thing, except perhaps among ultraliberals.

Nothing I've found after a few minutes on Google backs up Times Watch's description of Concerned Alumni of Princeton. They did protest affirmative action too, but that's not what it was primarily about. According to the Wikipedia page for Concerned Alumni of Princeton:

The Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) was a group of politically conservative former Princeton University students that existed between 1972 and 1986. CAP was born in 1972 from the ashes of the Alumni Committee to Involve Itself Now (ACTION), which was founded in opposition to the college going coed in 1969... The primary motivation behind CAP was to limit the number of women admitted to the university.

And according to reporting in The Nation:

The executive committee of CAP published a statement in December 1973 that affirmed unequivocally, "Concerned Alumni of Princeton opposes adoption of a sex-blind admission policy."

It was established during his confirmation hearings—and in reporting elsewhere on the web—that Alito was not deeply involved in CAP. Still, it's pretty awesome that she and he (should she be confirmed, which is expected) are going to be sitting across the table from one another for the rest of their lives. (Or at least until one of them retires, which will be a while, as they're both in their 50s.) You have to imagine Obama knew about the Princeton connection and, as a writer, as a guy who thinks about narrative, secretly kinda relishes it. After all, he voted against Alito's confirmation in 2006 ("When I examine the philosophy, ideology, and record of Samuel Alito, I'm deeply troubled," he said at the time). Not only would Obama's nominee be the first Hispanic justice and only the third woman ever on the Supreme Court, but she is the equal and opposite of Alito—a woman from the very university that Alito clearly believed should not have a bunch of women running around. Interesting fact from Princeton University's newspaper:

Sotomayor would be the 11th Princetonian and first female graduate to serve on the Supreme Court. Her appointment also would mark the first time two Princeton alumni have served together on the court since 1860.