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Yale Political Union

The Yale Political Union (YPU) is a debate society at Yale University, founded in 1934 by Alfred Whitney Griswold. It was modeled on the Cambridge Union and Oxford Union and the party system of the defunct Yale Unions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which were in turn inspired by the great literary debating societies of Linonia and Brothers in Unity. Members of the YPU have reciprocal rights at sister societies in England.[2]

Formation

1934 (1934)

Student organization

To provide Yale with a non-partisan forum for parliamentary debate and to encourage the discussion of matters of public interest by other suitable means[1]

ypu.sites.yale.edu

The union is an umbrella organization that currently contains seven parties: the Party of the Left (PoL), the Progressive Party (Progs), the Independent Party (IP), the Federalist Party (Feds), the Conservative Party (CP), the Tory Party (Tories), and the Party of the Right (PoR).[3][4]

(YPU Treasurer, 1998), Federal Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Patrick J. Bumatay

(Party Chair, Spring 2001), White House speechwriter for the George W. Bush administration and Publisher of City Journal

Meghan Clyne

(Party Chair, Fall 1996), editor of Forbes magazine and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute[6]

Avik Roy

List of Yale University student organizations

Yale International Relations Association

Yale Debate Association

Berkeley Forum

Official website