The Boston Globe is one of those elite media sources that should always be taken with a grain of salt (Except when they are poking fun at Harvard, of course. On that subject they show their ability to shoot fish in a barrel.)
As with much of the biased media today the central fact is well down in the story, in this case at the very end (and headlines are particularly untrustworthy):
A classmate, Jeffrey G. Weil, said yesterday that Alito, one of the top seniors in his class, had been selected to advise juniors writing the report, coaching them through the research and then writing an introduction explaining their recommendations. [Note THEIR recommendations, NOT HIS.] [My ellipses and emphasis]
And at any rate:
"A man who is not a liberal at 20 has no heart, A man who is still a liberal at 40 has no brain." (Attributed to Churchill in a slightly different form.)
Judge Alito was less than 40 when he supervised the research. He is over 40 now.
From a Boston Globe article, AT PRINCETON [/] Alito writing backed privacy, gay rights :
AT PRINCETON [/] Alito writing backed privacy, gay rights [/] By Christian R. Burset and Alan Wirzbicki, Globe Correspondents | November 2, 2005PRINCETON, N.J. -- As a senior at Princeton University, Samuel A. Alito Jr. chaired an undergraduate task force that recommended the decriminalization of sodomy, accused the CIA and the FBI of invading the privacy of citizens, and said discrimination against gays in hiring ''should be forbidden."
The report, issued in 1971 by Alito and 16 other Princeton students, stemmed from a class assignment to study the ''boundaries of privacy in American society" and to recommend ways to protect individual rights.
The far-ranging report, which satisfied a requirement for public policy students and which was stored in the university's Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, provided a glimpse of a more liberal Alito than the jurist is now perceived.
''We sense a great threat to privacy in modern America," Alito wrote in a foreword to the report, in 1971. ''We all believe that privacy is too often sacrificed to other values; we all believe that the threat to privacy is steadily and rapidly mounting; we all believe that action must be taken on many fronts now to preserve privacy."
A classmate, Jeffrey G. Weil, said yesterday that Alito, one of the top seniors in his class, had been selected to advise juniors writing the report, coaching them through the research and then writing an introduction explaining their recommendations. [Note THEIR recommendations, NOT HIS.] [My ellipses and emphasis]
