While the Reform Party website currently lists 11 candidates for its party nomination, Buchanan--who finished second in the 1996 Republican primary--is the only one to begin the process of securing ballot access for the presidential election.

But he is far from solidifying student support, especially at Harvard.

"The Pat Buchanan wing is socially conservative and doesn't really appeal to young voters," Davis says. "If he is their candidate, he would probably get no support here at Harvard."

And supporters of Ventura say Buchanan's controversial views do not fit in with the party's socially moderate base.

"Buchanan is fiscally liberal and socially conservative, which is the opposite of Ventura," Hawkins says.

But party faithful take the opposite view, saying Ventura's views were not truly representative of the national party.

"Ventura's centrist themes scared away people that were seeking to join us because they thought we were changing from our principles that made us attractive to them," Moan says.

Buchanan spoke at Harvard last week, often receiving boos and hisses from the crowd for statements he made in the past regarding immigration, homosexuality, women's issues and the Holocaust.