Harvard students constantly complain about campus party facilities--most party-goers end up hot and sweaty after being stuffed like sardines into small angular suites with little ventilation.

Every so often, though, the truly random Harvard architecture miraculously forms a logical space for social gatherings. These spaces become renowned and students flock to them on weekend nights.

The following have proven to be this year's party suites--meaning that through tradition, or deliberate manipulation, their residents have a space that is earmarked for the all-too-rare raging Harvard beerfest.

Winthrop Seven-Man

Extending the entire length of the fifth floor of Winthrop House's Standish Hall, this suite is considered the best senior room on the River.

Behind the door lie seven singles that come off the 65-foot hall. And on the other side of the sizeable common room--perfect for dancing and socializing--is the room's largest bedroom. Through the window of this bedroom is a balcony that residents have used during the warmer months.

"In the beginning of the year we had a barbecue, so everyone was eating burgers and Franks," says Caleb A. Gibson '99, who lives in the grandest bedroom, which he has furnished with a couch, chair and coffee table.

The seven-man offers extra rooms other lavish Harvard suites can't offer. A small closet area many people would call a coatroom is the residents' "keg room," where they keep a kegerator, a refrigerator that keeps cold beer on tap all the time.

The suite's benefits even extend beyond the room itself.

"It has amenities that lend itself to a social center, like it connects to a triple below us with a ladder," says George W. Hicks '99, another seven man resident.

But Gibson says they have not attempted any two-floor parties yet for fear of people falling off the ladder. But the set-up does allow them to socialize with their fourth floor friends.

Currier 10-Man

As any Quad resident knows, it can be a challenge to convince River dwellers to make the trek up Garden Street. But the parties in the Currier 10-man have been doing been doing it successfully for years.

"It's probably the largest private common room on campus," says Daniel A. Coll '99 of his coveted suite. Size is the main draw. The residents pack people onto the large dance floor in the suite's common room.

And the party tradition has ceded additional amenities to this social life hot spot. Some residents a few years back bought a bar, which now comes with the room, warning students to either hold parties or move out.

The current residents decided they needed a pool table for an area that "looked bare" and of course, the requisite kegerator.

Coll says he cannot imagine a way to improve the room's party aptitude.