sentences:  Libby matriculated at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in Fall 1968, graduating "magna cum laude" in 1972.As "Yale Daily News" reporter Jack Mirkinson observes, "Even though he would eventually become a prominent Republican, Libby's political beginnings would not have pointed in that direction.He served as vice president of the Yale College Democrats and later campaigned for Michael Dukakis when he was running for governor of Massachusetts."