Spring 2025 Joint Senate Officers
President: Cormac Lynch
President Pro Tempore: Katie Fiore
Critic: Gabriel Walsh
Clerk: Violet Frost
Treasurer: Austin Haenni
Sergeant-at-Arms: Aakash Palathra
Historian: Cassius Khan
Spring 2025 Society Presiding Officers:
Di President: Maddux Vernon
Phi Speaker: Stormy Epley
Contact our President, Cormac Lynch (colynch@unc.edu), for general questions relating to the Joint Senate.
Contact our Clerk, Violet Frost (vjohn23@unc.edu), for queries regarding Joint Senate communications and/or this website.
Contact our Sergeant-At-Arms, Aakash Palathra (aakpal@unc.edu), or use our Chamber Request Form for information regarding renting our historic properties.
Contact our Historian, Historian Khan (cbkhan@unc.edu) for questions regarding DiPhi’s history, archives, and portrait collection.
Sign up for our guest email list for information about weekly debates and social events here!
Campus Locations
- Dialectic Chamber: Located at 310 New West Hall on East Cameron Avenue. We hold our meetings here every Monday at 7:30 PM. Please stop by.
- Philanthropic Chamber: Located in 407 New East Hall on East Cameron Avenue. We hold social events and committee meetings here.
Mailing Address
The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, Inc.
P.O. Box 795
179 E. Franklin St.
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
United States
Di-Phi Foundation
Please contact our foundation (president@diphi.org), currently led by President Jeff Smith, for any information regarding the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies Foundation, Inc.
The Foundation’s Mailing address is:
The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 774
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-3647
Faculty Adviser
Our current faculty adviser is Professor and Alumnus Senator Rachel Gurvich.
Rachel Gurvich is a Clinical Professor at the School of Law, where she teaches primarily first-year and upper-level legal writing courses. She has also taught a First Year Seminar on the intellectual history of the American founding. She graduated from UNC in 2004, where she studied political science and Spanish. During her time at UNC, Professor Gurvich was herself a member of the Societies, where she was a proud Philanthropic Senator and held a variety of Exec Board positions, including JSP. After graduating, she attended Harvard Law School, clerked for a federal judge, and practiced patent and appellate litigation in Boston before joining the faculty in 2015. When she’s not teaching, she enjoys spending time with her family, including her two children, good TV, and ballroom dancing. She is delighted to be the Societies’ Faculty Advisor and would be delighted to meet with any senator or guest about any topics relating to the Societies, UNC, or law school.
