Amherst Political Union
The Amherst Political Union (APU) is a student debating club at Amherst College. Originally founded in 1939 and re-founded in the spring of 2010, the club aims to bring speakers on contemporary political thought to Amherst in a nonpartisan and unbiased manner.[1]
Other historic collegiate debating organizations
- The Berkeley Forum of University of California, Berkeley
- The Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania
- The Philolexian Society of Columbia University
- The American Whig-Cliosophic Society of Princeton University
- The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society of the University of Virginia
- The Union-Philanthropic (Literary) Society of Hampden-Sydney College
- The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- The Demosthenian Literary Society of The University of Georgia in Athens
- The Euphradian Society of University of South Carolina
- The Yale Political Union of Yale University
- The Philodemic Society of Georgetown University
References
- ↑ Gerchick, Adam. "A Second Life for the Amherst Political Union". www.amherst.edu. Amherst College. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
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