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Lambda Upsilon Lambda

American Latino interest collegiate fraternity

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc. is a Latino and multicultural interest collegiate fraternity. It was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York on February 19, 1982, and has 85 active undergraduate chapters and nineteen graduate alumni professional chapters across 119 universities and various cities throughout the United States.

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“Lambda Upsilon Lambda” enters the record as american Latino interest collegiate fraternity. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lambda, Upsilon and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lambda Upsilon Lambda” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.