The president of Brandeis University, Jehuda Reinharz, is complaining that the university has to foot an estimated $95,000 bill for the cost of security and other accommodations for Jimmy Carter's speech on campus last month...

...Brandeis officials had said they would figure out how to cover the cost, and some faculty had proposed chipping in $100 donations [BWAHAHAHAHA!]. Nealon said yesterday that the university's position was that it would help pay for the event.

But when Carter accepted the invitation last month, the campus community had less than two weeks to plan and no concrete estimate of the cost. One faculty organizer said an original estimate was $25,000, and a student organizer said the estimate was closer to $60,000 as the event neared...