"The number of Harvard students is small enoughthat it does not warrant a new unit," Josephsonsaid.

Currently 20 percent of participants in allthree ROTC branches at MIT are Harvard students.

Josephson added that ROTC officers areinterested in the council resolution because "itwas passed by a pretty significant margin."

Capt. Brian Mazerski, Air Force ROTC's publicaffairs officer, said the Air Force would beunlikely to start a Harvard unit because of thepaucity of Air Force ROTC students at the schooland the cost of creating a new program. "I thinkit would be pretty costly," he said. "I don'tforsee it even if there is a want to do that."

A Harvard program would also be unlikely,Mazerski said, because Air Force ROTC programs arebeing consolidated nationwide due to decliningenrollment. Last year, the Air Force consideredclosing about 40 ROTC units, including one atBoston University, he said.

Only the Army's ROTC expressed an interest inestablishing a unit at Harvard Lt. Col. Edward D.Hammond, director of MIT's Army ROTC unit, said hewould favor the creation of a new detachment atHarvard.

"Having one on campus would increase thetendency of students to join," Hammond said. "Asit is, it's a bit of a barrier. We would like tomake [ROTC] available to most students.