
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 13, 1990                   TAG: 9004130590
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: BEDFORD/FRANKLIN 
SOURCE: associated press
DATELINE: FREDERICKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

REMARKS BY MUSLIM STIR FUROR AT COLLEGE

Administrators at Mary Washington College said Thursday the school's Black Student Association was ill-advised to bring in a controversial Muslim figure to speak on campus on the first night of Passover.

Khallid Abdul Muhammad, a lieutenant to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, told the association in an address Monday night that blacks, not Jews, are God's chosen people and that Jews are working to keep American blacks ignorant and repressed.

Muhammad's remarks have created a furor on campus.

Brenda King, special assistant to the school's president and the college's affirmative action officer, said she was "absolutely appalled."

King said many students and faculty members had been to see her since the talk. Many of them "feel as if they've been slapped in the face," she said.

Joanne Beck, the college's dean of students, said Jewish students "don't understand exactly why the BSA brought a speaker like this onto campus, especially on the first night of Passover."

Arthur L. Brooks Jr., adviser to the Black Student Association and assistant dean for minority student services, said the timing was unintentional. He said the only date Muhammad was available to speak was Monday night.

by CNB