CORRECTION APPENDED SEE BOTTOMDue to financial constraints regarding the security costs involved, an event that would have brought Bill Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground and current professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, to speak on campus yesterday did not occur and has been tentatively rescheduled for April 30, according to a member of the club hoping to bring Ayers to campus.

The event was coordinated by students from Democracy for America and Students for a Democratic Society. Originally the coordinators had brought a Senate Money Resolution to the Student Union Senate asking for $900 to go toward the costs associated with bringing Ayers to campus. The SMR was passed and then overturned in a Union Judiciary case regarding whether the Ayers event was a Student Union project that would qualify it for the use of Senate discretionary funds. The UJ ruled that the Ayers event was not a Senate project and therefore could not use the $900 previously granted to it by the Senate. This ruling left the coordinators missing funds needed to pay the rising costs of the event.

"DFA is still in discussion with [Director of Campus Security] Ed Callahan and [Vice President of Student Affairs] Mark Collins regarding the cost of the event, but it is being scheduled for April 30," said Senator for the Class of 2011 Lev Hirschhorn, the event coordinator.

In an interview with the Justice, Ayers said, "I haven't seen any paperwork done or anything, but I think it's for sure."

Callahan and Collins could not be reached for comment.

Ayers said that DFA and SDS have asked him to speak about activism and involvement in social justice issues. He said that he will also address "questions of war and peace, questions of good, equality and recognition ... and I'm sure that I will talk about the rising expectations of young people in social movements, the danger of war and the current escalating war and the current situation."

Ayers said about Brandeis' message of social justice, "It's what I've spent my entire life working for, so I love it." He added that he is looking forward to visiting the University.

Hirschhorn said, "All details are still being worked out, but I am optimistic that we will get Ayers to campus before the end of the semester."

A bylaw amendment that would have allowed the Senate to have greater control over its discretionary funds, possibly allowing the $900 Senate Money Resolution regarding the Ayers event, was not passed at last Sunday's Senate meeting. It was created by several senators, including Hirschhorn.

-Nashrah Rahman contributed reporting.

Correction: The article originally misnamed the university at which Bill Ayers is a current professor. He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, not the University of Chicago.