The advertisement, adapted from an article written by CPSC member David Horowitz, takes issue with Menchu's account of the death of family members at the hands of Guatemalan government troops.

Horowitz cites Stoll's book, which concludes that the killings were in response to a previous attack by Marxist guerillas with which Menchu's family members worked.

"The Marxist doctrines responsible for this mayhem are being taught today by the same people who helped perpetrate Rigoberta's hoax," the advertisement says.

In an interview yesterday, Horowitz added that he feels the book was only accepted for its Marxist viewpoint.

"This was a book," he said, "that was embraced by the tenured left which exercises an intellectual hegemony at Harvard and on other campuses."

The goal of the advertising campaign, according to CSPC's press release, is to "restore intellectual integrity to the university campus by decrying the continuing canonization of Rigoberta Menchu." Horowitz said he considers it a "wake-up call."

At Harvard, Rigoberta Menchu's book is not required by any course but is on the recommended reading list for Professor of Anthropology David H. P. Maybury-Lewis' Anthropology 184, "Ethnicity in the Americas: The Indian Question."