AMHERST - Fliers from an organization that has been called a "white nationalist group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) were found in a UMass Amherst parking lot on Sunday, according to Amherst Wire.

Fliers for Identity Evropa, a group that claims to be a leader of the "greater European Identitarian movement in the United States" but that has been decried as racist "white nationalists" were found on car windshields and other fixtures in Lot 44, the news outlet reports.

The group, which was founded in 2016, has explicitly associated itself with the "Alternative Right"--or the alt-right, as it has become popularly known--which the SPLC, as well as many progressive activists and pundits have dubbed as "racist."

The group was founded by Nathan Damigo, a military veteran and former member of the National Youth Front--another organization that has been dubbed a racist white supremacist organization.

The group also has ties to Richard Spencer, who has become renowned as a "poster-boy" for the alt-right, and who is the president of the National Policy Institute--a think-tank based in Washington D.C. that has been called "white nationalist."

The fliers appearance in Amherst is apparently part of a much larger distribution push by the group. Recently, the group's fliers were also found on the UMass Boston campus, and fliers have allegedly been passed out in other schools across the country--including colleges in Virginia, Georgia, Ohio, Florida, and California.

Dubbed "Project Siege," this public relations campaign is part of the group's attempt to gain influence on college campuses and to attract young people to their cause, according to the group's website.

According to the group, "Siege" is the "beginning of a long term cultural war of attrition against the academia's cultural Marxist narrative that is maintained and propagated into society through the indoctrination of the future managerial class."

UMass spokesman Ed Blaguszewski recently said that the UMass Amherst police department is currently investigating the dissemination of the group's materials and that the school was "keeping an eye out" for more.

Blaguszewski further stated that though the school "believes in and respects people's rights to freedom of speech under the first amendment," that administrators do not tolerate anything associated with "white nationalism" and that they "take these issues very seriously."