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There are a number of student organizations at Yale University. The Yale Political Union, the oldest student political organization in the United States, is advised by alumni political leaders such as John Kerry and George Pataki. It was the largest student organization at Yale; several groups, including the Yale International Relations Association (YIRA), have laid claim to the title in recent years. The university features a variety of student journals, magazines, and newspapers. The latter category includes the ''Yale Daily News'', which was first published in 1878 and is the oldest daily college newspaper in the United States. Dwight Hall, an independent, non-profit community service organization, oversees more than 2,000 Yale undergraduates working on more than 60 community service initiatives in New Haven. The campus also includes several fraternities and sororities. The campus features at least 18 a cappella groups, the most prominent of which is The Whiffenpoofs. A number of prominent secret societies, including Skull and Bones, are composed of Yale College students. == Fraternities and sororities == The fraternity system in American education was developed at Yale. In 1738, Yale students founded the first selective college organization, a debating society named Crotonia; two competitors sprang up soon after, Linonia (1753) and Brothers in Unity (1768). In 1780, students created a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, a secret academic society begun at the College of William and Mary four years earlier. In 1832, Phi Beta Kappa's evolution from a secret academic society into a public one led students to set up the Society of Skull and Bones. Secret and senior societies proliferated, and with them, fraternities. Originally, most were part of an interrelated system of socially or academically elite junior, sophomore, and even freshman societies, which fed into the prestigious senior societies. Other types of fraternities, however, were also formed. In 1932, Yale opened 10 residential colleges, which included elaborate facilities for living and dining. As they became centers of social life, the underclass fraternities began to wither. They became increasingly unpopular in the 1960s, due to the atmosphere of social equality and Yale's decision to require undergraduates to purchase full meal plans. Around 1973, the last two surviving fraternities—Delta Kappa Epsilon and The Fence Club (associated with Psi Upsilon) -- closed and sold their facilities to the University. As the social and political atmosphere became more moderate and the Connecticut drinking age was changed from 18 to 21, old fraternities began to reopen and new ones were formed; however, these generally bore little resemblance to the old Yale fraternities, as most did not have elaborate houses or the atmosphere of social and campus elitism.〔Yale's senior societies were "elite" but, in all fairness, depended less on family status than those at Princeton and Harvard. They were more inclusive of men from poor and undistinguished families who achieved prominence on campus in such areas as athletics, academics, and student organizations. See " Tombs and Taps: An inside look at Yale's Fraternities, Sororities and Societies", http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Tombs_and_Taps.htm〕 Yale’s first sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, was formed in 1985. The following fraternities and sororities have chapters at Yale: Fraternities * Alpha Delta Phi fraternity () * Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity () * Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity * Chi Psi fraternity () * Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (founded at Yale) * Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity * Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity ''(Epsilon chapter, Sachem Hall, active 1893-1929)'' () * Psi Upsilon fraternity * Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity () * Sigma Chi fraternity () * Sigma Nu fraternity * Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity () * Zeta Psi fraternity () Sororities * (Alpha Rho Lambda ) sorority * Kappa Alpha Theta sorority * Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority * Pi Beta Phi sorority * Sigma Psi Zeta sorority () Non-National Fraternities: * the Fence Club (coed) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Yale University student organizations」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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