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Volume XVII
Issue II
MILO YIANNOPOULOS
VISITS BUCKNELL
STORY ON PAGE A4
STORY ON PAGE A7
DINESH DSOUZA
VISITS BUCKNELL
WHY IM A THE DEATH OF THE THE CASE FOR THE
CONSERVATARIAN AMERICAN REPUBLIC LIBERTARIAN PARTY
STORY ON PAGE A1 STORY ON PAGE A6 STORY ON PAGE A3
Ethan Wise the United States. We, as dom for authoritarian an rulers. Out Full Response to
editor@thecounterweight.net The Bucknellian | A4
the human race, cannot rule? For the well-meaning
It can be boiled down allow ourselves to repeat The answer is self-evi- liberals who believe that
to two words: Im an- the mistakes of the past. dent. They amassed their all of todays problems Dinesh DSouza Visits
ti-authoritarian. I caution those wanting power over time, taking should be solved by the Bucknell | A7
Recent movies have more comfort and secu- every inch they could, government, I ask you
helped to remind me just rity at the cost of giving under the guise of na- to take a second and ask, Why Im a Conserva-
why Im anti-authoritar- the government more tionalism, the greater would you like it if you tarian | A1
ian; post-apocalyptic se- power. If you give the good, or progress. were giving these same
ries like The Hunger Games government an inch, it The founders under- powers to someone you
and the Divergent series The Death of the
takes a mile. Every mile stood this all too well. knew would exploit them
in particular. They have American Republic | A6
it takes, is a step towards Thats why the Decla- for their own purposes?
many things in common, You give the govern-
but they all circle around
the liberation from an
I REFUSE TO LET FREEDOM BE ment the power to make
Letters to the Editor | A2
healthcare insurance
authoritarian regime. NOTHING MORE THAN A STO- mandatory today. But The Case for the Lib-
This is also a common ertarian Party | A3
theme found throughout RY PASSED DOWN GENERA- what if years later, in a
strange turn of events,
human history, including
recent history. TION TO GENERATION the government then says
purchasing a firearm was
Outrageous and Quo-
tatious | A5
The leading cause of an uncontrollable au- ration of Independence necessary for the securi-
unnatural death during thoritarian regime. states, ...whenever any ty and well being of its Never Mind or
the 20th century was due This may seem ex- Form of Government citizens, under the same Never Again? | A6
to authoritarian regimes. treme or even laughable becomes destructive of argument?
Between the regimes of to some, but Id ask you, these ends, it is the Right We must all act as if The Republican War
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao how did Hitler, Stalin, or of the People to alter or every inch we give the
alone, close to 70 million
Against Women | A3
Mao get all their power? to abolish it, and to insti- government was being
innocent lives were lost. Were they born with it? tute new Government given to an authoritari-
Thats nearly a quarter of Mission Statement
Did everyone willingly as a safeguard against po-
the current population of - Continued on A2 - and Contributers | A8
just give up their free- tential future authoritari-
To the Editor, ing on college campus- decades since the 1960s, is below.
es by the authors of the especially acute for those Yet Shields and
I read with great inter- recent book Passing on who identify as cultural Dunn in their book
est the thoughtful article the Right, Conservative Pro- conservatives (often prac- nonetheless ulti-
by my friend and col- fessors in the Progressive ticing adherents of tradi- mately dismiss af- (https://provost.uchicago.
league, Prof. Alf Siewers, University, published by tional religious faiths), firmative action as an edu/sites/default/files/docu-
regarding political diver- Oxford University Press. who reported often harsh option for conservatives ments/reports/FOECommit-
sity amongst Bucknell The co-authors, Prof. Jon difficulties with restric- at universities. Instead, teeReport.pdf)
faculty. But let me get A. Shields of Clarement tions on their freedom they favor including po- Of course, the ideas of
this straight. When Prof. McKenna College, and to express their identity litical diversity as a cate- different members of the
Siewers states, classify- Prof. Joshua M. Dunn, Sr., in negotiating the secular gory in university diver- University community
ing political diversity an of the University of Col- academic world. In gen- sity policy, and adopting will often and quite nat-
an explicit goal in uni- orado-Colorado Springs, eral, the authors noted statements on freedom of urally conflict. But it is
versity diversity policy cite statistics in a number that the popular conser- speech to reassure junior not the proper role of the
is something that Buck- of studies indicating the vative view of academia conservative faculty and University to attempt to
nell has not yet done but percentage of Republi- as leftist, and the popu- job applicants, options shield individuals from
should, is Prof. Siewers, can professors in the so- lar liberal view of conser- that I advocate at Buck- ideas and opinions they
and by extension The cial sciences nationwide vatism as un-academic, nell. find unwelcome, dis-
Counterweight, suggest- at about 8 percent, and both discourage and lim- Two top American uni- agreeable, or even deeply
ing there be affirmative in the humanities about it academic careers of versities, the University offensive. Although the
action for conservatives? 8.5 percent. In various conservatives in the US of Chicago and Princeton University greatly values
studies the percentage of today, isolating the acad- University, both provide civility, and although all
Sincerely, self-identified conserva- emy and the conservative Bucknell with models for members of the Univer-
tives in the social scienc- segment of the populace such a policy, to support sity community share
Chris Boyatzis, Ph.D. es ranged between 5 and from one another, and our own excellence as a in the responsibility for
Professor of Psychology 17 percent, and in the hu- even inciting enmity be- liberal arts university. Ex- maintaining a climate
manities between 4 and 8 tween the two. cerpts are given below, in of mutual respect, con-
percent. One study, by Profs. order hopefully to spur cerns about civility and
This is in line with Daniel B. Klein and Bucknell to follow suit in mutual respect can never
FREE BUCKNELL findings of an article in Charlotte Stern (Profes- the near future. be used as a justification
the Bucknellian last fall sors and Their Politics: for closing off discussion
My friend and es- that indicated, based on The Policy Views of So- 1. University of Chicago of ideas, however offen-
teemed colleague Prof. faculty voter registration cial Scientists, Critical Report of the Committee sive or disagreeable those
Chris Boyatzis wrote The in Union County, that Review 17, 264), offered on Freedom of Expres- ideas may be to some
Counterweight in re- 74 percent of faculty are this graphic perspective sion, Jan. 2015 members of our commu-
sponse to my article in registered Democrats and nity.
the last issue on liberal only 6 percent registered 2. Resolution of
hegemonic thinking at Republicans. At the same Princeton University
Bucknell to ask whether time, university surveys Faculty, April 2015, fol-
there is support for af- of faculty indicate that lowing the University of
firmative action for con- 70 percent of professor Chicago statement, ad-
servatives, on the part of self-identify as liberal opted into Princetons
conservatives. or far left, and only 9 official Rights, Rules,
The possibility of affir- percent as conservative, Responsibilities policy
mative action for conser- with none identifying as guide.
vatives at Bucknell, sug- far right. ( http://www.princeton.
gested by my esteemed Shields and Dunn note edu/pub/rrr/part1/index.xm-
colleague, is mentioned that this situation around l#comp113)
as an option to redress the country, which seems
hegemonic liberal think- to have become worse in - Continued on A3 -
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the ideas put forth are sity community, not for contesting the ideas that essential part of the Uni-
- Continued from A2 -
thought by some or even the University as an in- they oppose. Indeed, fos- versitys educational mis-
In a word, the Uni- by most members of the stitution, to make those tering the ability of mem- sion.
versitys fundamental University community to judgments for them- bers of the University
commitment is to the be offensive, unwise, im- selves, and to act on those community to engage in Professor Alf Siewers
principle that debate or moral, or wrong-headed. judgments not by seeking such debate and deliber-
deliberation may not It is for the individual to suppress speech, but ation in an effective and
be suppressed because members of the Univer- by openly and vigorously responsible manner is an
- Gary Johnson
tablishments lack of re- will almost definitely to vote simply to keep the
spect for voters choices. result in someone oth- other side out of office
Lets first examine the er than Trump receiving but rather to vote for the
Democratic race. Ver- asked superdelegates, If a doms as Hillary Clinton. the nomination, despite best possible candidate. I
mont Senator Bernie candidate wins your state The fact is that Clinton Trump holding the great- implore all disillusioned
Sanders, while only trail- by 40 or 50 points, who opposed a freedom as est number of votes! Will voters this November to
ing Clinton by a rela- are you going to give your basic as same-sex mar- these Trump supporters take a good look at Gary
tively small margin in vote to? Clintons estab- riage as recently as 2008 support the GOPs new Johnson and the party of
pledged delegates (based lishment connections and only recently flip- candidate, or sit at home minimum government
on state primary results), run deep, from profiting flopped positions in or- in November? and maximum freedom:
receives virtually no sup- hundreds of thousands of der to attract more votes. I predict that Bernie the Libertarian Party.
port from superdelegates dollars from Wall Street The Republican prima- Sanders, despite receiv-
(who have supported speeches to the Chair of ry is likewise in disarray, ing the votes of roughly
My whole life is about winning. I dont lose often. I almost never lose.
DONALD TRUMP
We must reject the idea that every time a laws broken, society is guilty
rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept
that each individual is accountable for his actions.
RONALD REAGAN
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