Other groups to be approved today include the Harvard Billiards Club, the Harvard Pre-Veterinary Society and Mariachi Veritas de Harvard University.

If today’s applicants are approved, these groups will add to the 275 already in existence, according to statistics from Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis’s 2001 five-year report on the College.

But members of the CCL said they are not concerned about having too many campus organizations.

Illingworth said that as new groups are formed, other groups dissolve as members graduate or lose interest.

“I do not think that Harvard should set a limit of student groups,” he wrote.

Rohit Chopra ’04, chair of the Student Affairs Committee of the Undergraduate Council and a member of CCL—which consist of five faculty and five student members— said he agreed.

“There definitely should be no limit because otherwise we’d be making a value judgement of which students’ interests are more important than others,” he said.

Chopra said the CCL primarily looks to make sure new groups do not duplicate existing ones before approving them. He added that such a problem is usually resolved before a group is considered by CCL and that he would be “surprised if a group did not get approved” today.

—Staff writer Jenifer L. Steinhardt can be reached at steinhar@fas.harvard.edu.