High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yale Political Union (YPU), a debate society now the largest student organization at Yale University, was founded in 1934 by Professor Alfred Whitney Griswold (1906 1963) (later University President), to enliven the university's political culture of the time. It was modelled on the Cambridge Union Society and Oxford Union. 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 and David Boren, US Attorney General Edwin Meese, New York governor George Pataki, columnist and author William F. Buckley, and journalist Fareed Zakaria.