Concerned Alumni of Princeton: Difference between revisions

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The '''Concerned Alumni of Princeton''' ('''CAP''') was a group of politically [[American conservatism|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 (ACTIIN), which was founded in opposition to the college becoming [[coeducation]]al in 1969. Some claim that CAP was founded to bring the [[Reserve Officer Training Corps]] (ROTC) back to the Princeton campus after the ROTC building was burned down by anti-war activists and the Princeton administration refused to rebuild it. However, the ROTC had returned to campus by the time CAP was founded. The primary motivation behind CAP was to limit the number of women admitted to the university.{{Citation needed|date=June 2011}} CAP also opposed [[affirmative action]] designed to increase [[minority group|minority]] attendance at the [[Ivy League]] institution.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.isthatlegal.org/images/cap1.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-01-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060217213830/http://www.isthatlegal.org/images/cap1.pdf |archivedate=2006-02-17 }}</ref> CAP also exhibited strong support for Princeton's [[eating club]]s, which were male-only at the time.