From: Bill Strom [william.strom@yale.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 3:03 AM
To: marxists.and.moderates@yale.edu
Subject: all the liblong week
all the liblong week
the *new* whipsheet of the liberal party of the yale political union
six
week of: 07oct02

Admittedly, this is the portion of the whipsheet I dread to write the most. I mean, everything else is fairly well scripted in advance. All I have to tell you is what we're doing, when we're doing it, and where you can find us doing it--a propos given our most recent debate topic. But here, in this space, I have to say something that will make you continue reading to the bottom. A steep challenge, no doubt about it. Perhaps I've lost you already. Perhaps you don't even know I'm writing this now. Perhaps I don't even know I'm writing this now. Look at the time stamp on this email: You know it's late. I know it's late. And if you receive this before Monday morning, you'll understand where I was coming from when I wrote this. Please come see me at a Lib Party event, when I promise to be less punchy and more full of punchlines.--}:-{)

*undercard*
07oct02 1730: Lib Dinner, Commons Dining Hall
Please join us under the portrait of G.H.W. Bush, DC '48. Enjoy our dinner conviviality, as we Partake Once in Reallybadfood (in stark juxtaposition to other political union members).

*steel cage match*
08oct08 1930: Meeting of the Yale Political Union, LC 211
Tuesday night, the YPU welcomes Michael Barone, Harvard College and Yale University Law alumnus and current senior writer for US News and World Report, to speak in favor of the resolution, "America Should Seek to Assimilate Her Immigrants." Is the purpose of the melting pot homogeneity? Or is the goulash better when you can taste its component parts for what they are in and of themselves? Contact bradley.lipton@yale.edu to be docketed to speak. Come to be heard, come to hear, come to find out about compulsive capitalization in ordinary sentences.

Special Note: The YPU, free and open meetings, and paying for memberships
The YPU, in a less than enlightened move, has decided to make closed meetings the order of the day. If you're thinking about buying a membership, you should do it now. Membership in the Yale Political Union entitles you to vote in YPU elections, come to meetings that are closed to the public, and membership in the Cambridge and Oxford Political Unions. Only by establishing a strong liberal party presence in the YPU can we hope to reverse this decision.

The Yale Political Union (www.yale.edu/ypu) was formed in the 1930s in order to provide a forum for rollicking debate among its six member parties. Our Liberal Party is the oldest of these six. Each year, nationally and internationally recognized social and political leaders visit the union to speak about political philosophy, current events, and policy issues. For more information about the YPU, contact william.rogel@yale.edu. For arcane and trivial history about the YPU, contact jonathan.khoury@yale.edu.

*main event*
11oct02 2030: Parents' Weekend Debate, location TBA
That's right, come one, come all, and bring your folks! Tell them about how they've been oppressing you all your life, as we debate the resolution, "You're an imperialist." Does living in America, with all the opportunities it provides, inherently make you an oppressor? What good is leftist thought in a quasi-imperialist/militarist state? Show your parents how intellectual you can be on a Friday night! Further details to follow! Yes!

*royal rumble*
11oct02-13oct02: Lib Party College Brunches/Dinners
Look out for invitations to brunch/lunch/dinner from your favorite Liberal Party whips, as we give you the opportunity to get to know us more intimately--and no, not in the same sense as our debate last week. (For those of you who missed it, sex with a Yalie beat out abstinence in a landslide.  Surprising? I didn't think so.)

*exit music*
"America is colonizing our minds. One day, every great story the world has ever seen will be set in an American high school in the movies."

from The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, by David Grieg