Student Paper Awarded National Recognition

Lewisburg, Penn. – The Bucknell University Conservatives Club’s magazine, The Counterweight, recently received the “Paper of the Year Award” from the Collegiate Network.

The Collegiate Network is a subsidiary of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. It consists of 103 conservative student papers from the nation’s top colleges and universities, including every Ivy League school.

The Counterweight, which prints monthly throughout the school year, received the award for superior design and content. The Collegiate Network praised The Counterweight for its continuous exposure of excessive administrative spending. The magazine was also recognized for working with the University on issues of diversity and free speech. Throughout this past year The Counterweight has worked to curb administrative waste, fight classroom bias, reform campus dining, and promote intellectual diversity.

Will Moyer, editor-in-chief of The Counterweight, stated, “The staff of The Counterweight is extremely honored to win this award; receiving the recognition and help of the Collegiate Network keeps us motivated in our struggle to preserve the ideals of conservatism and libertarianism.”

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. Along with publishing The Counterweight, the club has hosted many speakers, including John Ashcroft, a former US Attorney General. One of the most successful student political organizations in the country, the BUCC 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.

Nick Mozal is President of the Bucknell University Conservatives Club.