Lewisburg, Penn. – The Bucknell University Conservatives Club recently held their annual Valentine’s Day flower sale to benefit Susquehanna Valley Women in Transition, which offers emergency services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
The Conservatives Club took orders for roses and carnations from the campus community in the days leading up to Valentine’s Day. On February 14, members of the club delivered the flowers to the recipients. The flowers were purchased from Stein’s Florist in downtown Lewisburg.
Nearly 100 roses and 100 carnations were sold. In total, $309 was raised for the Susquehanna Valley Women in Transition shelter.
Alex Ufier, one of the event’s coordinators, said, “We stepped up and did a good thing for our community. Radical feminist groups on campus are raising money with their crude and disgusting play, The Vagina Monologues. The Conservatives Club celebrated Valentine’s Day the traditional way and still raised a lot of money for abused women. We donated over $300.”
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, which won the Collegiate Network’s “Paper of the Year Award” for 2006-2007 and has hosted many speakers, including former United States Attorney General John Ashcroft last spring. 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.
Samantha Soller is the president of the Bucknell University Conservatives Club.
