Bucknell University Conservatives Club
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The Bucknell University Conservatives Club, or BUCC, is a non-partisan student organization founded in 2001 to promote conservative, libertarian, and classical liberal ideas at Bucknell University.
The BUCC publishes a popular monthly magazine called, The Counterweight. The paper has advanced such issues as: exposing Bucknell's speech code, criticizing liberal bias at the University, and addressing administrative waste. During the Fall 2005 semester, The Counterweight received two national awards. It won the Leadership Institute's Campus Leadership Award for Best Campus Conservative Paper in the Country in 2004-2005 and was runner-up for the Collegiate Network's Paper of the Year Award for 2004-2005.
The BUCC also hosts many events each year. It has sponsored speeches at Bucknell by Ben Stein, John Stossel, Walter E. Williams, Christopher Hitchens, Rick Santorum, and others. The group has also orchestrated protests against the Vagina Monologues, collected items to send to soldiers serving in Iraq, and created an abortion graveyard.
The BUCC was featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, and has received media attention from TIME Magazine, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, the National Review, CNN, MTV, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR, and others.
Its members have worked for the White House, Bush-Cheney 2004, the Republican National Convention, the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, the Heritage Foundation, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the Leadership Institute, Americans for Tax Reform, the Center for Security Policy, the Family Research Council, and the United States Armed Forces.
Members have also gone on to attend graduate schools such as Purdue, Fordham Law, Marquette, Penn State Law, and Boston College Law.
