Confused Student Association members called a meeting with the Black Student Union, Campus Activities Board and Hillel Jewish Student Association to discuss Black Muslim Leader Louis Farrakhan’s NIU appearance.

The SA executive board gave $4,000 to the BSU to help pay for Farrakhan’s $12,000 price tag to speak at NIU Jan. 30. There was no time to call an emergency senate meeting before the controversial Minister’s lecture, so concerned SA members have asked why Farrakhan’s speaking and why is he being paid with student’s money. The first SA meeting is Jan. 28.

SA Senate Speaker John Fallon said today’s 1 p.m. meeting at the Center for Black Studies hopefully will help clear the confusion. The meeting is open to the public.

“I do not feel it (the allocation) would pass the senate with a majority vote,” Fallon said.

BSU Vice President Demitricus Carlvin said the meeting will “address concerns of Jewish students and Jewish senators who are in opposition of the program.” Carlvin said he hopes the “misconception in Jewish student’s minds will be dismissed and abolished.”

Farrakhan has been described as a spiritual leader by his supporters and deemed as anti-Sematic by some Jewish leaders.

“Minority Economic Empowerment in the 1990s” is Farrakhan’s 8 p.m. lecture topic. Doors open at 7 p.m.

Tickets for the lecture go on sale today at 11 a.m. at the Center for Black Studies and the Holmes Student Center ticket booths. Tickets are $3 for general admission and $4 at the door.

Carlvin said had the BSU been alloted the full amount, then students would not be charged admission.