Although the University allows students to participate in the MIT program, it does not give students academic credit for their ROTC training.
College administrators rejected a proposal by the Undergraduate Council to allow ROTC's return to campus last year.
But Gunn says the University's refusal to allow a Harvard detachment is beside the point, since there are too few Harvard students involved in MIT's detachment to sustain a detachment. Ten students currently participate in the program from Harvard.
MIT's detachment of 55 is considered too small even now. There's even been talk, he says, of closing MIT's detachment and moving it to Boston University.
Even at nearby MIT, Gunn says the detachment's Northeast location is problematic.
"It feels we're very detached from the military environment," Gunn says.
Although they are not recognized as a student group, Gunn and Blankson would like the group to have a more visible presence on campus.
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