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.

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

External links

• Amherst Political Union Facebook Page