Even though she was injured in the game, Michelle decided not to hold a grudge and started a weekly tradition of watching "Ally McBeal" with her new teammates.

"For a while last year she was our token female friend," Ken says.This year, she was the only female to join the guys on their spring break jaunt to Cancun.

Throughout the House, they say, they are known as all-around nice guys.

"At the dining hall at meals, it's like the big joke," Matt says. "When people are down on their luck, they sit with us."

One evening two weeks ago, inspired by the movie Gladiator, the boys had grabbed a copy of Spartacus at the video store.

Dressed in a floral blue dress, Elizabeth E. "Emy" Hancock '00, Michelle's roommate, had joined them for the night's entertainment.

An F-32 regular, Emy says she has grown fond of the boys.

"They're highly abusive, always trying to get me to buy food for them," she says. She teases the boys about a recent prank they pulled on her when she left her purse in their room.

"Generally they act respectfully to me--only later do they put gay porn in your purse."

Just a few moments later, Cabral heads in with M. Jake Ewart '00, a blockmate from Claverly Hall who considers himself an honorary member of the entryway. Both start munching away on their tacos as WWF flickers on the screen.

"I didn't spill a goddamned thing!" Jake shouts, as he stuffs the last chunk of tomato into his mouth and high-fives Cabral.

Beyond Simple Sketches

Instead of slapping palms, the senior males one flight up toss a small white ball around the room while they chat.

"I would say I'm surprised we get along so well together," Juri E. Henley-Cohn '00 says of the personality mix.Each fits into his own niche: Juri and Julio V. Gambuto are the room's resident actor types, Matt Ozug is the outdoorsy master FOP leader and Brian Johnson '00 is the "ec version of a gov jock," according to Julio or "your all natural Fly guy," to Matt.

They could not be any closer.