About

Welcome to the Bucknell Conservatives Club
The Bucknell University Conservatives Club is a non-partisan student organization dedicated to promoting the free exchange of ideas in an environment where meaningful debate and ideological diversity are often lacking. We, its members, seek to serve the Bucknell community by infusing it with the ingredients necessary for a balanced educational experience. These ingredients include conservative, libertarian, and classical liberal thought. We aim to find and describe logical solutions to issues big and small, while adhering to the Constitution of the United States and all its amendments. We believe that peace is best achieved through strength, that utopia is nowhere, and that true equality is blind to race, creed, sex, and sexuality. We take it as our mission to expose the inadequacies of the leftist ideas that dominate this University and to articulate an alternative viewpoint. We strive to inform, engage, and perhaps even amuse our fellow students in doing so.

The BUCC is one of the most effective and well-known student political organizations in the United States. Our programs include our hard-hitting magazine, The Counterweight, our highly successful lectures, demonstrations, our email discussion listserv, and public exposure. Our efforts have received media attention from the New York Times Magazine, TIME, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, the American Prospect, CNN, MTV, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR, and others. Our members have had the privilege of working 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, most importantly, the United States Armed Forces. Members have also gone on to attend prestigious graduate schools such as Purdue, Fordham Law, Marquette, Penn State Law, and Boston College Law. Several distinguished graduates of the University serve on our Alumni Board of Advisors.

We invite the active participation of any student who shares our vision and would like to join our crusade. If you’re interested in joining, please email Secretary Brett Carr.