Happy Valentine’s Day

Lewisburg, Penn. – The Bucknell University Conservatives Club will be selling carnations to benefit Susquehanna Valley Women in Transition, which offers emergency services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.

The Conservatives Club will take orders for flowers February 9, 10, and 13 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. in the Langone Center at Bucknell University. The flowers, which cost $2 each, will then be delivered by members of the club in suit and tie on Valentine’s Day. Carnations will also be available for purchase on Valentine’s Day itself as long as supplies last.

According to Samantha Soller, secretary of the Conservatives Club, “The flower sale has two purposes, first to help women who have been victims of violence, and also to celebrate and embrace what Valentine’s Day is supposed to be all about: chivalry and positive relationships between men and women.”

Conservatives Club president, Dominic Rupprecht, added, “While some radical campus feminists are using Valentine’s Day to sell crude items like vagina-shaped lollipops and perform the obscene and degrading Vagina Monologues, we choose to celebrate women and the true meaning of Valentine’s Day, and do it all for a great cause.”

The Bucknell University Conservatives Club was founded in September 2001 to combat the systematic exclusion of conservative, libertarian, and classical liberal ideas from the University. It publishes a well-known magazine, The Counterweight, and has hosted many speakers, most recently Major John Krenson, an intelligence officer in Operation Enduring Freedom. One of the most successful student political organizations in the country, it was featured on the cover of the May 25, 2003 New York Times Magazine and has also received coverage from other broadcast and print media including MTV, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and NPR.

For more information, contact:

Dominic Rupprecht, BUCC President: 201.230.4986 or president@bucknellconservatives.org.