Famous ex-members include Chairman of Shell Jorma Ollila and one of the most well known Finnish politicians Paavo Väyrynen.

[1] From the current Centre Party's parliamentary group for example Katri Kulmuni, Petri Honkonen, Antti Kurvinen, Hilkka Kemppi and Anu Vehviläinen have been active members of the organisation during their studies.

It demanded all the power to the students in universities and got the support of Finnish Minister of Education Johannes Virolainen.

Nevertheless, the other parties did not support the radical idea and Finland got a triangular decision making structure in its universities.

It got its own man Jorma Ollila (the future Chairman of Shell, Nokia and UPM) to chair the National Union of University Students.