ok, so this from today's washington post.....Backers of Supreme Court nominee Sam Alito tout his 30-year paper trail as a judge and government lawyer -- lots for senators to work with deciding whether to confirm him. But our Post colleague Juliet Eilperin discovered a crucial missing piece in the Alito record: his undergraduate thesis.
Eilperin tasked Princeton University senior Alyson Zureick with tracking down the paper, a requirement for all graduating students. (Yeah, we know, we're glad we're not Supreme Court nominees either. . .) Alito's topic was Italy's Constitutional Court. But when Zureick went to the campus library . . . it was nowhere to be found! Proof of the right-wing conspiracy? Or the left-wing one? University archivist Daniel J. Linke said a mid-1980s survey found nearly 300 theses missing, "Alito's among them, unfortunately." The 55-year-old Alito graduated in 1972.
His thesis adviser, professor emeritus Walter Murphy, put out a statement praising his former student and whacking the president who hopes to put him on the nation's highest court: "I confess surprise that a man so dreadfully intellectually and morally challenged as George W. Bush would want a person as intellectually gifted, independent and morally principled as Sam Alito on the bench." Oh, those Princeton Tigers! Never a kind word about Yalies!
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