Plans for members of a Columbia University student organization to nosh with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were scuttled Wednesday by “the controversy surrounding the event,” The Columbia Spectator reported.

Fifteen members of CIRCA, which stands for Columbia International Relations Council and Association, were supposed to dine alfresco with Ahmadinejad around noon Wednesday on the campus at Furnald Plaza, the paper reported.

A CIRCA spokesman could not be reached to explain the sudden change of plans.

University president Lee Bollinger had not planned to join the students in breaking bread with Ahmadinejad, despite a FOX News report to the contrary.

“At no time has there ever been any university event planned or considered involving the president of Iran, nor has there ever been any plan for a dinner involving the Iranian president and President Bollinger,” the university said in a statement.

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