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Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 p.m.

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YPU celebrates 75 anniversary

Contributing Reporter
Published Monday, October 26, 2009

The Yale University Art Gallery auditorium echoed with hisses and fist-banging this weekend as about 140 current and former members of the Yale Political Union gathered for the organization’s 75th anniversary celebration.
Eighty-five YPU alumni returned to New Haven this weekend, joining scores of current YPU members to celebrate the organization’s history. Starting in 1934 with more than 150 people at its first debate, the YPU now boasts seven member parties and a membership of 350 undergraduates.
At the reunion, alumni from every party gathered Saturday in the gallery’s lecture...

#1 By Y11 12:46p.m. on October 26, 2009

I'm sure these poor alums were devastated to see the kind of weenies who now comprise the YPU. John Kerry wouldn't be caught dead with his modern "successors."

#2 By Christopher Bieda '83 2:04p.m. on October 26, 2009

Y11, that's okay: I'm sure some students wouldn't want to be caught dead with him (as wouldn't this alum, a two-term Speaker of the Union).

#3 By yale 11 10:21a.m. on October 30, 2009

JOHN KERRY??? wtf?

A complete loser.

Most overrated legislator everrrr

#4 By 00 10:59a.m. on November 4, 2009

ypu was comprised of weenie hacks-in-training 10 yrs ago, and if jkerry is any indication things probably haven't changed appreciably.

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