The poster is peach and a bit larger than the others hanging on the board in Waring Commons. It grabs Scott Heckman's attention, and he stops to read it once again.

The flyer announces that Minister Conrad Muhammad will be speaking on keys to survival on a mostly white campus, but to Heckman (freshman-business management), it echoes themes of anti-Semitism and hatred.

But Christopher Atkinson, president of Black Caucus, said Muhammad is not an anti-Semite, pointing out that "Semite is a language group and has nothing to do with race."

As for being anti-Jewish, Atkinson said he does not think Muhammad is.

"(The Nation of Islam) are really for the most part pro-black. They aren't anti-Jewish. They aren't anti-anybody," Atkinson said.

Muhammad, scheduled to speak at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4 in 108 Forum, is currently the minister of Mosque #7 in Harlem, N.Y., once home to Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan. Black Caucus is one of the groups sponsoring the speech.

Muhammad's name is associated with many honors, including being cited by Ebony magazine as one of the world's 30 future leaders two years in a row. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a leader of the Nation of Islam -- a religious, social and political organization for black people adhering to Islamic principles.

What concerns Heckman is Muhammad's association with anti-Semitism. Last October, Muhammad was pictured on the cover of New York Magazine accompanied by a headline reading "Why He Hates Jews." The article inside, written by a Jewish friend of Muhammad's, Jeffrey Goldberg, is riddled with hints of anti-Semitism, some inferred by Goldberg, some spoken directly by Muhammad.

"The thing about the Jews is, you have great intellectual talents, and you are very skilled at grafting yourself onto natural talent, but you don't have a lot of it yourself," Muhammad told Goldberg.

He also defended another Nation leader, Khalid Abdul Muhammad, an aid to Farrakhan who was recently demoted when he spoke at Kean College in New Jersey and said Jews were "bloodsuckers of the black nation."

At a New York homecoming for Khalid Muhammad, Conrad Muhammad said "I'm not saying Brother Khalid is Jesus, (but) Jesus attacked the Jews, Jesus attacked the wicked rulers of his day, Jesus got on the handkerchief-head, boot-lickin', butt-lickin' religious leaders of his day. Isn't that what brother Khalid is doing?"

When Heckman heard Muhammad was speaking at the University, he was prompted to write a letter to The Daily Collegian, urging concerned students to attend the speech or contact William Asbury, vice president of student affairs.

Asbury could not be reached for comment.

Heckman wants students to go to the speech "so people can see what their tuition money, what the tax dollars of their parents are going to pay for, if, in fact, it is going to be the type of speech that is going to be biased and anti-Semitic."

He said he does not see Muhammad's visit as a freedom of speech issue. "(Student affairs) has the right and responsibility to at least monitor the people who come to campus -- at least to a degree," Heckman said. In his letter, he wrote that he was afraid the speech would exploit black students' emotions and create feelings of hatred between the races.

But Atkinson said violence is not a part of what Muhammad preaches.

"The Nation of Islam prohibits violence of any kind. The Nation never attacks anyone unless someone attacks them first," Atkinson said.

Muhammad is especially interested in black campus organizations. While he was at Penn, he was president of the Black Student League.

"His speech is called 'Keys to Survive on a Predominantly White Campus,' " Atkinson said. "He's not coming to incite a riot."

Heckman said if the speech is not racist, he does not have a problem with Muhammad speaking.

"I couldn't say I like the man or what he does, but if it's going to be an intellectual, unbiased speech that offers real solutions to how to survive on a predominantly white campus, I don't have a problem with it," he said.