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Menendez jumps on Hugin’s past opposition to allowing women, gays into elite Princeton club
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jul 20, 2018 08:32pm |
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| Author | Matt Friedman |
| News Date | Friday, July 20, 2018 04:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | When New Jersey Republican Senate nominee Bob Hugin was a senior at Princeton University, he made it clear that gay students weren’t welcome at the Tiger Inn, the elite eating club he led as president.
If a member of the club was found to be gay, a 21-year-old Hugin told the Central Jersey Home News in 1976, “he wouldn’t last long,” according to an article circulated Friday by the campaign of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.).
"I'm proud to say that my views are a lot different than they were 40 years ago. On this issue I was probably more influenced by my kids than anything else. They had insight at a very early age on the issues of equality and fairness that made me re-evaluate the way I saw the world,” Hugin said in a statement to POLITICO on Friday. “Personal growth should be seen as a strength, and more elected officials should embrace and be open to discussing it in their public lives. As Senator, I will be a leader on issues of equality from day one."
But Hugin’s association with the Tiger Inn — one of the oldest and most prominent “eating clubs” at Princeton, which for over a century have been part of the university’s social scene — didn’t end when he graduated. He took a leadership role on its alumni board and in the early 1990s, when he was in his late 30s, fought a woman’s 13-year attempt to make the all-male club co-ed in state and federal court. |
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