Bucknell University Conservatives Club
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The Bucknell University Conservatives Club, or BUCC, is a student organization at Bucknell University founded in 2001 to promote conservative, libertarian, and classical liberal ideas.
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[edit] The Counterweight
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. On November 4, 2007, The Counterweight was named Paper of the Year by the Collegiate Network for the 2006-2007 school year, beating 103 other papers. The Counterweight previously 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. As documented in Collegiate Network, the magazine is subsidized by an outside conservative group, both directly and indirectly, including the award of summer fellowships to contributors that turn the talking points into articles.
[edit] Events
The BUCC also hosts many events each year. It has sponsored speeches at Bucknell by John Ashcroft, Ben Stein, John Stossel, Walter E. Williams, Ward Connerly, 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.
[edit] Media
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, the Laura Ingraham Show, and others.
