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I Love APUSH Club fails to make history

For most students, retaking history quizzes in their spare time would be an absurd idea. But for the devoted few remaining diehards of the I Love APUSH club, it’s an activity worth sacrificing a lunch for.

The club president, senior Victor Zilinskas, founded the I Love APUSH club at the beginning of the 2004-2005 school year after completing the AP US History class.

"The class and materials were interesting, the textbook was hilarious, and Bungarden rocked,” Zilinskas said. “Seriously, if anybody else besides Bungarden had taught it there would be no I Love APUSH club.”

"Make sure you put in there that I was present when this was done," said Jack Bungarden while rolling his eyes. Bungarden is the AP US History teacher, club sponsor, and main reason for the club’s existence.

The club held its first meeting simultaneously with a Tuesday meeting that Bungarden had to attend. According to Zilinskas, the absence of Bungarden caused disillusionment within the club, and a follow-up meeting held the next Monday attracted few members. After holding formal meetings for a few more weeks, the club spiraled down into its current state, where club members come in on their own time to do club activities.

"At the end of the year to review for AP US History, we made board games with APUSH questions on them,” Zilinskas said. “If you get a question right you get to move forward. In the club we play those kinds of games, we take old quizzes, and we hang out with Bungarden.”

Bungarden apparently does not mind the cult of personality that has sprung up around him.

"Its always nice to see students come back,” Bungarden said, adding playfully. “Even former students like Victor."

The outlook for the I Love APUSH club is bleak. With no regular meetings and sporadic attendance, even Zilinskas does not have a positive view towards the club’s future.

"At this point it’s somewhat of a joke,” Zilinskas said. “It was started as a joke. It still is a joke. It has no future even as a joke."

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