"We feel that there are people who think likeus on a variety of issues, who for understandablereasons don't want to let everyone know they sharethese opinions, at least in as close minded acommunity as Harvard," McGuire says.

"Principally, Peninsula serves to say to thesepeople. 'Hey, there are others like you here.Don't compromise your principles. You're right andhere are the reasons why you're right,"' he adds.

McGuire says the magazine has largely succeededin establishing a united front for right-wingissues.

"What Peninsula set out to do from the verybeginning was to generate a team effort in termsof representing the conservative voice," McGuiresays.

Peninsula often places ads exhorting campusconservatives to find their ideological soulmatesby writing for the publication. An ad in the mostrecent issue urges students to join the "Peninsulafamily." Earlier issues encourage right-wingers to"find out who [their] real friends are."

Although Peninsula may often divide thecampus, McGuire says the staff writers rarelydisagree with one another.

"People that join Peninsula know where westand," he says. "The core group share the sameset of beliefs. I can't say that Peninsula suffersfrom internal dissent at all."

But according to one writer, the magazinesometimes goes too far.

"Often times I think they might intentionallyby trying to be inflammatory," the writer says. "Ithink the current leaders are having a tough timefilling the shoes of the old guard," the writeradds.

One way the magazine can revitalize itself,according to the writer, is to move more towardthe political center.

"There has to be some sort of image control,"the writer says. "[The magazine should come] intothe mainstream, but without kowtowing to thecampus's liberal bias."

But McGuire says trying to appease the publicweakens conservative thought. He cites The HarvardSalient as a publication that has failed to be astrong right wing force.

"When the conservative voice is muted as itis," he says, "why spend time as The Salient hasdone in a recent issue, attacking Rush Limbaugh?Sure, he doesn't stand up to the intellectualstandards of a Harvard, but when you have twoconservative magazines on campus, do you reallywant to pick on your allies in those few pagesthat you have?"

And Peninsula's conservative voice has effectedchange, according to staffers. "I went back toWomen's Studies 10b this semester and listened tothe first lecture," she says. "There was a lotthat changed."

Although many strongly disagree with thepublication's views, McGuire says he is notdiscouraged.

"I think Emerson said it best," he says. "'Tobe great is to be misunderstood.' If that's true,we're the greatest publication since theFederalist Papers."