At three six-packs a week, they've now drunk and displayed more than 260 different beers from all over the world including Canada, Germany, and England. They were sampling their first African beer when Weisman arrived.

As a recent addition, they built custom shelves themselves to house their expanding collection, including their own homemade brew. "It felt very manly," Baler says.

Everybody coming out of the Mather dining hall sees the collection in the window.

"Many people pass in front of it, and everybody comments," Weisman says. "That's spectacular. It's a very deliberate act.

"I think this epitomizes a lot of college life, especially the male side of college life," she says. "There aren't a lot of women with beer bottle collections."

In contrast to their bottles, the Mather men also collect fish, which are housed in the common room's three tanks.

"They make us appear more sensitive," Baler says. "We're trying to draw a connection [between fish and beer]. They have liquid in common."

Long Live the King

And then there's the room straight out of Graceland.

The focal point of the Elvis memorial in the bedroom of Eliot House resident Margot A. McAnaney '94 is the afghan of the Elvis Presley stamp hanging on the wall.

She put glowing stars on his eyes and said that no matter where she is in the room, Elvis is always looking at her.

MaAnaney says she found the blanket in Manhattan, and as a collector of the Elvis stamps, she "just had to have it."

One of her walls also sports an Elvis clock from a Holyoke Center shop, a gift she received from a friend. "I think Elvis is just so funny," she says. "It's sort of a cult."

Where the Wild Things Are

To carry out the "Ivy" League tradition, one might swing by the garden room of Eliot resident William C. Weld '94.