Guide to Uncovering the Right on Campus.

If you're worried about the "political correctness" of conservatives in academia, pick up a copy of the Guide to Uncovering the Right on Campus.

Published by the University Conversion Project (UCP), which was founded during the Gulf war, this fifty-two-page guide describes more than a dozen conservative groups and the amount of money they funnel into right-wing activities at colleges across the country.

Included is the Washington-based Madison Center for Educational Affairs, providing "editorial support" to seventy-five conservative student newspapers in its Collegiate Network, and the Third Generation "leadership development" project of the Heritage Foundation. Interviews with the leaders of Accuracy in Academia and the Young Americans for Freedom student wing detail how their thousands of members "expose" liberal faculty.

The Guide also takes aim at "the close financial ties between defense contractors and universities" which pose "a serious threat to academic freedom," as University of Pittsburgh graduate and 1992 UCP summer intern Erin Bush argues.

One example Bush cites is Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, professor of international security studies at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Pfaltzgraff criticized MIT researcher Theodore Postol for casting doubt on the effectiveness of the Patriot missile. Pfaltzgraff's denunciation ran in The Wall Street Journal in April 1992, but the newspaper failed to identify Pfaltzgraff as the president of the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, a conservative think tank and the recipient of tens of thousands of dollars in funding from Raytheon, the Patriot's manufacturer, Bush reveals.

The Raytheon smear campaign ultimately contributed to the loss of $25,000 in funding from two defense contractors to Postol's program. Postol remains angry at the MIT administration for failing to back him up. Bush suggests MIT'S inaction may be explained by the $4.7 million Raytheon has donated to MIT over the past fifty years.

Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, UCP has inspired students at some forty campuses to file Freedom of Information Act requests with the Department of Defense to get a look at the specific grants and contracts with their schools.

Future UCP projects to promote economic conversion and social responsibility in curriculum include a directory of campus peace groups and a guide to creating peace and justice studies.

Copies of the Guide to Uncovering the Right on Campus cost $7 each, and a one-year subscription to UCP's quarterly bulletin Study War No More including the Guide costs $25. Student subscriptions are $20. For more information, write to University Conversion Project, Box 748, Cambridge, MA 02142, or call [phone].