McMahan says she believes Dunster's tolerant atmosphere is reflected by the different clubs that are supported by and advertised in the house.

"We have the only pornography appreciation group on campus, and there are a lot of BGLTSA signs up," she says.

McMahan says it seems as though the various activities in the house attract a diverse group of people.

Some of those activities include the Goat Roast--at which students gut and skin a goat in the courtyard--and the Dunster Cafe, in which students perform at an open microphone and sip coffee.

Starkey says she transferred into microphone and sip coffee.

Starkey says she transferred into Dunster from Lowell House because the house activities in Lowell didn't interest her. She says that groups such as the Hard-core Erotic Appreciators--which has an attendance of 15 to 50 people at Dunster events--would not be appreciated at Lowell.

"In Lowell, no one would have gone," she says.

She adds that she enjoyed the Full Moon Ceremony in Dunster last fall.

"We got in this big circle and danced to Hava Nagilah, but there were some people who were new to the house who looked as if they didn't find it a fun thing to be doing," Starkey says.

Although no one interviewed by The Crimson yesterday said they were displeased with the Full Moon Ceremony, Starkey says some students appeared disturbed or confused by the event.

Dunster residents received a flier a few days later which complained that the ceremony offensively depicted Chinese culture, Starkey says.

Ethnic Diversity

Erika E. Evasdottir, the adjunct advisor for race relations in Dunster, says she is pleased that people in general are "dealing with the fact that all of a sudden there's a different racial composition in the house."

Evasdottir says there is an increase in the number of "black and Asian students" in Dunster this year.

"There are cliques in the house, but at the same time I'm surprised by the tolerance," she adds.

Some Dunster residents who love living in the house say that, while the composition of Dunster House will change because of randomization, its atmosphere may not.

Like Duchin and Starkey, Winston G. Olson '98 says what he loves most about Dunster is that "anything goes."

"I'm wondering whether or not randomization will really change Dunster," he says. "The atmosphere here is already conducive to that kind of change.