After months of criticism about its policies on addressing sexual assaults on campus, Columbia University has canceled a campuswide concert known as Bacchanal scheduled for next month, according to a student group that organizes the event.

The student group, the Bacchanal board, and seven other student organizations issued a statement on Monday in which they said the administration had given no specific reasons for canceling the concert. But the groups said that at a July 28 meeting, administrators made “general comments about safety concerns associated with drinking and sexual harassment.”

According to the Bacchanal board, the administration has agreed to cover the $55,000 cost of performance fees for the three acts that were scheduled to perform at the concert. News of the cancellation was reported Monday by The Lion, an online student publication at Columbia.

A university spokesman said on Tuesday, however, that the decision to cancel the event had nothing to do with combating sexual assault on campus, and that the university was in the process of rolling out a comprehensive effort to address sexual assault and how reports of it are handled by the university.