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The '''Committee on Student Organizations''' ('''CSO''') was a university-wide administrative office which granted recognition and charters to student organizations. It appears to have fizzled out after the [[1968 protests]], when the office, then constructed as a 6-member student-faculty-administration committee, attempted to prohibit SDS from using university facilities to host an event the year after the protests. Not to be confused with the [[Columbia College Committee on Student Organizations]], a student group empowered with the final authority to recognize a student group as a King's Crown Activity.

During the mid-1950s, the CSO was caught in the middle of a number of campus controversies - the movement to force fraternities to disavow bias clauses in their charters, and a student push to force the [[Senior Societies]] to submit themselves to regulation like all other student groups.

== External link ==
* [http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-ua/ldpd_4198883/summary Columbia University Committee on Student Organizations Records, 1905-1919 | University Archives finding aid]

[[Category:Defunct club administration]]
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