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Founded	1934
Home Page	The Yale Political Union
Elected Officers of the Union, Fall 2011Executive Board, Yale Political Union Website (as of 26 May 2011)Teller ReportsYale Phonebook
President	Jonathan Yang, IP (BK '13)
Speaker	Yishai Schwartz, IP (BR '13)
Vice President of Guest Affairs	Stephen T. Marsh, PoL (SY '13)
Vice President of Communications	Sandy Yang Zhu, IP (JE '12)
Director of Development	Yang William Li, CP (BK '12)
Treasurer	Radhika Koul, CP (TD '14)
Director of Campus Relations	Jess Belding, PoL (DC '13)
Floorleader of the Left	Francisco Diez, PoL (MC '14)
Floorleader of the Right	Harry Steyer Graver, CP (DC '14)
Party Chairs and Chairmen
Liberal Party	Ryan Pollock (CC '13)
Party of the Left	Joshua Revesz (CC '13)
Independent Party	Roy Lee (ES '13)
Federalist Party	Benjamin Wilson (CC '14)
Conservative Party	Tianmu Li (DC '13)
Tory Party	Brendan Harrington (BK '13)
Party of the Right	Max Daniel Jacobson (SY '13)
Appointed Officers
Secretary	Andrea Stein, Lib (BR '14)
Teller	Chase Ross, Tory (CC '14)
Social Chair	Lydia Price, Tory (CC '14)

The Yale Political Union (YPU), a debate

Policy debate

Policy debate is a form of speech competition in which teams of two advocate for and against a resolution that typically calls for policy change by the United States federal government or security discourse...

 society now the largest student organization at Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

, was founded in 1934 by Professor Alfred Whitney Griswold

Alfred Whitney Griswold

Alfred Whitney Griswold was an American historian and educator, and President of Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.-Biography:...

 (1906–1963) (later University President), to enliven the university's political culture of the time. It was modelled on the Cambridge Union Society

Cambridge Union Society

The Cambridge Union Society, commonly referred to as simply "the Cambridge Union" or "the Union," is a debating society in Cambridge, England and is the largest society at the University of Cambridge. Since its founding in 1815, the Union has developed a worldwide reputation as a noted symbol of...

 and Oxford Union

Oxford Union

The Oxford Union Society, commonly referred to simply as the Oxford Union, is a debating society in the city of Oxford, Britain, whose membership is drawn primarily but not exclusively from the University of Oxford...

. Members of the YPU have reciprocal rights at sister societies in England. The Union has at times been the central forum for political discussion and activism at Yale. Its officers over the years have included United States senators John Kerry

John Kerry

John Forbes Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to former President George W...

 and David Boren, US Attorney General Edwin Meese

Edwin Meese

Edwin "Ed" Meese, III is an attorney, law professor, and author who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration , the Reagan Presidential Transition Team , and the Reagan White House , eventually rising to hold the position of the 75th Attorney General of...

, New York

New York

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 governor

Governor

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 George Pataki

George Pataki

George Elmer Pataki is an American politician who was the 53rd Governor of New York. A member of the Republican Party, Pataki served three consecutive four-year terms from January 1, 1995 until December 31, 2006.- Early life :...

, columnist and author William F. Buckley, and journalist Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist and author. From 2000 to 2010, he was a columnist for Newsweek and editor of Newsweek International. In 2010 he became Editor-At-Large of Time magazine...

.

The Union is a non-partisan debate society. A speaker moderates weekly debates according to Robert's Rules of Order

Robert's Rules of Order

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. The Union's highest ranking officer is the President, elected for a term of one semester, who oversees the Union's daily affairs and provides leadership in any given semester. http://www.yale.edu/ypu/constitution.html In late 1961, the responsibilities of the office of President were divided between the offices of President and Speaker.

A prominent figure (e.g., politician, journalist, etc.) is often invited to keynote a Yale Political Union debate. Students then have the opportunity to ask questions of the guest, and then give speeches of their own, either in support or opposition to the resolution. This ability to allow students to interact with relevant political figures is often considered one of the great strengths of the organization.

Parties

The Union is an umbrella organization that currently contains seven Parties: the Liberal Party (Lib), the Party of the Left (PoL), the Independent Party (IP), the Federalist Party (Fed), the Conservative Party (CP), the Tory Party (Tory), and the Party of the Right (PoR). These parties are actually independent debating societies that host their own debates and activities apart from Union activities, though members will come together for weekly Union debates. The Parties are traditionally listed in the order above. http://www.yale.edu/ypu/

In the past, the Political Union has had other Parties, including a Bull Moose Party, a Constitutional Union Party, a Labor Party, and a Progressive Party, but not concurrently. The minimum number of parties has been two, the maximum seven, while four is typical. All parties contribute in their unique way to the Union's character.

Though party size and membership varies greatly over the decades, the Independent Party has consistently been the largest party in the Union for a decade, maintaining a voting membership usually between one-third and one-half of the Union total. In recent semesters, the Party of the Left, the Party of the Right, and the Tory Party have each had their turn as the second largest party, usually between half and two-thirds the size of the IP. The other parties have been comparatively smaller but always met the minimum voting requirement (25 voting members).

These Parties have their own political leanings, as their names might suggest, but they are better understood as being distinguished by different styles. For instance, the Parties on the Right tend to have more formal debates that cover philosophical topics. The Parties on the Left tend to have a more casual atmosphere than the Parties on the Right, while still engaging in political dialogue.

The Liberal Party is one of the three founding constituent parties of the Yale Political Union. The party holds discussions rather than debates, and tends to be less formal. The Liberal Party is consistently the left-most in the Union.

The Party of the Left was formed in the spring of 2006 by a group of left-leaning students who were looking for more formal philosophical debate on the Left of the Union, emphasizing a synthesis of first principles and policy. The Party of the Left seeks to develop its Members as people and leaders and to develop a new vision of the American Left. As such, the Party provides an open atmosphere for rigorous debate on topics that "divide the Left." PoL debates are more formal than Liberal Party discussions, as they are conducted following parliamentary procedure.

The Independent Party covers nearly the entire political spectrum. The Independent Party has been the largest Party in the Union since 2002. The Party debates policy as well as philosophy and is known for its explicit goal and motto: "Hear All Sides".

The Federalist Party is the youngest Party in the Union, founded in 2010. It is a group of religious social conservatives that seeks, according to its charter, "to resist the errors of the age and to promote ... the tempering of taste, the ennoblement of custom, the correction of judgment, the cultivation of virtue, and the perfection of friendship." Its members coalesce around a shared wariness of the modern phenomena of scientistic materialism, apathetic relativism, and the homogeneity of suburban sprawl. The Party's motto is "e parvis oriuntur magna", "From small things great ones arise," a reference to St. Thomas Aquinas on the importance of first principles.

The Conservative Party was founded in 1996, and claims to be committed to the production of principled and profound leaders, regardless of political orientation. The Party's debates focus on the principles of Western Civilization, and are often mostly philosophical; other party events include the Allan Bloom Forum and the Sir Thomas More Lecture Series, which each Friday hosts a Yale professor to give an informal lecture over lunch. The Conservative Party maintains ties with its alumni and is one of two Parties in the Union with a private debate hall.

The Tory Party is the foremost society of conservatives and the party of 'reasoned conservatism' at Yale. The Party was founded in 1969 and is known for its thriving alumni network; a strong tendency towards the British aesthetic; and its fondness for speeches delivered with wit and levity. Tory debates divide conservatives and cover a broad spectrum of topics, running the gamut from current events, modern politics, history, philosophy, aesthetics, popular culture, and campus life. The Party requires all members to identify as "conservative" but does not maintain any party line, inviting conservatives of all kinds to petition for membership, and those of all political ideologies to visit Tory debates. The Tory Party is also one of the two Parties of the Union with a private debate hall, aptly named "The English Market."

The Party of the Right

Party of the Right (Yale)

The Party of the Right is a fraternal, political, and intellectual organization founded in 1953, functioning secondarily as one of the parties within the Yale Political Union. The POR was founded by genuinely conservative members of the Conservative Party, outraged by the Conservative Party's...

was founded in 1953 by members dissatisfied with the lack of true conservatism in the Union. Its members now tend to be politically libertarian, while devoting themselves more to philosophy and intellectual history than to current governmental issues and debates. The Party has been described in a recent Yale Herald article as "at once flamboyant, intellectually elitist, aggressive, mischievously subversive, eccentric, and maniacally eager to challenge anyone and everyone." It is fond of saying: "We care not what you think, only that you think."

History

Founded in 1934, the Yale Political Union originally had three parties: the Liberal Party, the Labor Party (now defunct), and the Conservative Party (which became the Independent Party in 1978), and it has seen the rise and fall of many others since. Over the years, the Union has played a key role on Yale's campus. Like most organizations, it has had periods of flourishing, as well as less prosperous spells. Once the only organization devoted to political debate on campus, it remains a unique and high-quality forum for oratory and political dialogue.

All sides agree that the Union is not as influential as it once was. Members note that this is the result of several factors. Many believe that it is simply one of the effects of Yale's metamorphosis from Old Yale into the vibrant modern Yale of 2008, which has notably included the rise of activism on campus. Eventually, Union debate came to be a combination of a keynote speaker and ensuing student speeches. This push and pull between outside speakers and student debate has characterized the Union for at least thirty years.

The YPU regained strength throughout the 1970s, during which period the Liberal Party was by far the largest, but then it suffered a severe blow shortly after A. Bartlett Giamatti

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti was the president of Yale University and later the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Giamatti negotiated the agreement that terminated the Pete Rose betting scandal by permitting Rose to voluntarily withdraw from the sport, avoiding further...

 became the Yale President. Giamatti, violating numerous agreements and covenants established with the Union, "repurposed" the YPU building/debate hall. Today, it is used for office space and storage.

After several years of rebuilding, the Union recovered its numerical strength. This recovery moved into rapid gear during Spring term of 1984 (under the presidency of Fareed Zakaria) when membership tripled to 900 during a term highlighted by a nationally televised debate. By the end of 1986, active membership rolls comprised over 1200 members, nearly 1/4 of the entire student body at Yale, and the YPU successfully launched a Model Congress, a magazine, an annual three-day visit to Washington DC (for meetings with Cabinet Members, Supreme Court Justices, IMF and World Bank heads, foreign Ambassadors and even the Director of the National Gallery of Art), and an on-topic debate team (which sent two union members overseas to the world debate championships). Then, the one-vote failure of an attempt to acquire the much financially stronger Yale International Relations (Model UN) program at Yale in Spring 1987 (which would have made for a political powerhouse on campus), and the earlier 1980's loss of the YPU's dedicated facilities slowed momentum, and membership declined after a poor recruit in the fall of 1988.

In the early 1990s, membership reached its peak in YPU history. It then fell again, as a spurt of new political organizations on campus diverted politically active Yalies. Though smaller, the parties were relatively stronger and tighter institutions during this period. Most have remained intimate organizations, though with somewhat larger membership, to the current day.

One of the few enduring YPU spinoff publications, Rumpus Magazine

Rumpus Magazine

Rumpus is a tabloid publication produced six times a year by students at Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut. Visually resembling the New York Post, Rumpus is a controversial, humorous publication with content ranging from campus gossip to investigative reporting.-History:Rumpus was first...

, was founded by members of the Progressive and Tory Parties in 1992. For the first 3–4 years of its publication, Rumpus remained closely linked to the YPU. One of the more sordid scandals of the period, involving a member who misappropriated the YPU's long-distance phone access number for calls to a racy 1-900 number from his senior single, was broken by Rumpus in the Fall of 1994.

As more and more Yale undergraduate organizations were founded, the YPU had the misfortune of losing its offices under Bingham Hall. It managed to retain its small office on Crown Street, where it currently resides, although the Union has recently begun a capital campaign to raise funds for a new building. During its various moves, many irreplaceable historical archives were lost, although the YPU's collection of paraphernalia signed by noteworthy public figures is sizeable. The YPU hit a low point in membership in the late 1990s. The YPU President, an Independent Party member, was impeached in the Fall of 1997, leading to the near collapse of the Independent Party. The effects of this crisis took some time to reverse, though by 2001 the Independent Party was largely restored and began an impressive period of growth. Although membership remains roughly 25% of its last peak in the 1990s, the Political Union is nevertheless the largest undergraduate organization at Yale, with approximately 325 members (as of the end of 2007).

Officers

Union Officers are elected at the end of each semester (except for the Treasurer who holds a year-long term). All Officers are members of the Executive Board of the Union, although not all of the Officers have votes on the Executive Board. There are two primary officers, a Speaker, and a President, and a number of other offices, that have varied over the years, including Vice President(s), Treasurer, and Secretary. The Speaker is the most important officer during the actual periods when the Yale Political Union is in session, and runs the meetings, deciding on points of parliamentary procedure as necessary. The President is the most important officer while the Yale Political Union is not in session, and runs the Executive Board, with primary responsibility for planning the meetings, the seasonal calendar, and the overall strategy of the group.

The Advisory Committee

The recent constitutional amendments passed on April 4, 2006, created a new Advisory Committee to "advise the Executive Board and the President and provide long term planning for the Union." Past Presidents of the Union are automatically nominated for membership, subject to approval by the Executive Board, and there may be up to four other members on the Committee at any one time (subject to nomination by the Chairman of the Committee and approval by the Executive Board). http://www.yale.edu/ypu/constitution.html The most senior Former President on the Committee is constitutionally designated as the Chairman of the Committee.

Chairmen

Each Party in the Political Union is headed by a Chairman, although the Liberal Party and the Party of the Left use the gender-neutral term 'Chair.' (The Chairmen of the Conservative Party and the Party of the Right, during their tenure, are referred to as "The Chairman" or "Mr./Mme. Chairman" instead of their given names.) All of these Chairmen either serve personally on or send proxies to the Executive Board and the Rules Committee of the Union.

Notable alumni

Notable alumni of the YPU include:

• William Bundy
  William Bundy
  William Putnam "Bill" Bundy was a member of the CIA and foreign affairs advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He had a key role in planning the Vietnam War. After leaving government service he became a historian.-Early years:Raised in Boston, Massachusetts he came from a...
  
  , President, Spring and Fall 1938
• H. Bradford Westerfield
  H. Bradford Westerfield
  Holt Bradford Westerfield was a Damon Wells Professor of International Studies and professor of political science at Yale University....
  
  , President, Fall 1945 (Liberal)
• Byron White
  Byron White
  Byron Raymond "Whizzer" White won fame both as a football halfback and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appointed to the court by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, he served until his retirement in 1993...
  
  , Chairman of the Conservative Party (Conservative-IP)
• Samuel P. Huntington
  Samuel P. Huntington
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  , Leader of the Labor Party, Fall 1945 (Labor)
• L. Brent Bozell Jr.
  L. Brent Bozell Jr.
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  , President, Spring, 1949 (Conservative-IP)
• John Glenn Beall, Jr.
  John Glenn Beall, Jr.
  John Glenn Beall, Jr. was a Republican member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland 1971–1977. He was also a member of the Maryland House of Delegates 1962–1968, and the U.S. House of Representatives from the sixth district of Maryland from 1969 to 1971...
  
  , Vice President, Fall 1949
• Edwin Meese
  Edwin Meese
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  , President, Fall 1951 (Conservative-IP)
• David P. Calleo
  David P. Calleo
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  , President, Spring, 1954
• Richard S. Arnold
  Richard S. Arnold
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  , Vice President, Fall 1955
• Senator John F. Kerry, President, Fall 1964 and Spring 1965; Chairman of the Liberal Party, Spring 1964 (Liberal)
• J. Harvie Wilkinson
  James Harvie Wilkinson III
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  , President, Fall 1965 and Spring 1966; Chairman of the Conservative Party, Fall 1964 (Conservative-IP)
• John J. O'Leary
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  , President, Fall 1967 and Spring 1968
• Fred Krupp
  Fred Krupp
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  , President, Spring 1974 (Conservative-IP)
• Evan Wolfson
  Evan Wolfson
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  , Speaker, 1976
• Peter Keisler
  Peter Keisler
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  , Speaker, Chairman of the PoR (PoR)
• Robert Pollock
  Robert Pollock
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  , Chairman of the PoR
• Dana Milbank
  Dana Milbank
  -Biography:He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Trumbull College, the Progressive Party of the Yale Political Union and the secret society Skull and Bones. He is a graduate of Sanford H. Calhoun High School in Merrick, New York...
  
  , Chairman of the Progressives (Progressive)
• Michael J. Astrue
  Michael J. Astrue
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  , President, 1977, Chairman of the Tory Party, 1975 (Tory)
• Steven Calabresi
  Steven Calabresi
  Steven G. Calabresi is a professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law. He is also a visiting professor at Brown University.Calabresi co-founded the Federalist Society when a student at Yale University, and is an active conservative author and commentator.Among others, he has...
  
  , President, Fall, 1978
• Akhil Amar, Chairman of Liberal Party
• David McIntosh
  David M. McIntosh
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  , President, Fall, 1979
• Keith Ferrazzi
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  , Chairman of the Tory Party, 1985
• Neal Wolin
  Neal S. Wolin
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  , President, Fall, 1981 (Liberal)
• Fareed Zakaria
  Fareed Zakaria
  Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist and author. From 2000 to 2010, he was a columnist for Newsweek and editor of Newsweek International. In 2010 he became Editor-At-Large of Time magazine...
  
  , President, Spring 1984 (PoR)
• John Wertheim
  John Wertheim
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  , President, Spring, 1988
• David Boren, Speaker (Conservative-IP)
• Austan Goolsbee
  Austan Goolsbee
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  , (Independent)
• John Bolton
  John R. Bolton
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  , Floor Leader of the Right, 1968 (Conservative-IP)
• Richard Brookhiser
  Richard Brookhiser
  Richard Brookhiser is an American journalist, biographer and historian. He is a senior editor at National Review. He is most widely known for a series of biographies of America's founders, including Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, and George Washington.-Life and career:Brookhiser was born...
  
  , Chairman of PoR, 1975 (PoR)
• Governor Bob Taft
  Bob Taft
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   Chairman, (Conservative-IP)
• Governor George Pataki
  George Pataki
  George Elmer Pataki is an American politician who was the 53rd Governor of New York. A member of the Republican Party, Pataki served three consecutive four-year terms from January 1, 1995 until December 31, 2006.- Early life :...
  
   Chairman, (Conservative-IP/Tory)
• William F. Buckley (Conservative-IP)
• Raymond Price
  Ray Price (speechwriter)
  Raymond K. "Ray" Price, Jr was the chief speechwriter of U.S. President Richard Nixon, working on both inaugural addressess, his resignation speech, and Gerald Ford's pardon speech....
  
  , Chairman of the Conservative Party (Conservative-IP)
• Marvin Krislov
  Marvin Krislov
  Marvin Krislov is the 14th president of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. He was appointed President of Oberlin after nine years as the vice president and general counsel of the University of Michigan....
  
  , Chairman of the Liberal Party, Fall 1979 (Liberal)
• Peter Beinart
  Peter Beinart
  -Early life and education:Beinart was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of South African immigrants. His mother, Doreen, works at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and his father, Julian Beinart, is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His stepfather is theatre...
  
  , Chair of the Liberal Party, Fall 1990 (Liberal)
• Maggie Gallagher
  Maggie Gallagher
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  , Chairman of the PoR, 1981 (PoR)
• Jonathan Zittrain
  Jonathan Zittrain
  Jonathan L. Zittrain is a US professor of Internet law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School, a professor of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a faculty co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society...
  
  , 1991 (Independent)
• Lauren Willig
  Lauren Willig
  Lauren Willig is a New York Times bestselling author of historical romance novels. Her books follow a collection of Napoleonic-Era British spies, similar to the Scarlet Pimpernel as they fight for Britain and fall in love.-Biography:...
  
  , Chairman of the Tory Party, Spring 1998 (Tory)

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External links

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• The Progressive Party of the Yale Political Union
• The Independent Party of the Yale Political Union
• The Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union
• The Tory Party of the Yale Political Union
• The Federalist Party of the Yale Political Union
• The Party of the Right of the Yale Political Union
• An article from the Yale Herald on the state of the Political Union
• An article on Sen. John Kerry's YPU career, written by the first Chairman of the Tories, a political union contemporary