> The Columbia undergraduate student government was also basically just party planners, in addition to being a feeble roadblock to university policies. Not rea

> The Columbia undergraduate student government was also basically just party planners, in addition to being a feeble roadblock to university policies. Not really, though the degree to which that's true depends on whether you're talking about CCSC, ESC, GSSC, or SGA. The student governments absolutely can effect meaningful policies of their own; I know because I worked on more than one such policy while I was there. > The truly powerful group was the student-run Activities Board, which distributes student life fees to a hundred or so student clubs and groups ABC (Activities Board at Columbia) is only one of the four funding umbrellas for student groups. And incidentally, ABC does not fund any student groups related to politics, religion, humanitarianism, or public activism. SGB is responsible for all of those, and SGB's funding decisions are fairly autonomous, as opposed to ABC's, which fall under more direct oversight from the atrociously-named F@CU.