Hanson declined to comment on whether he had reversed the keg ban last year for Winthrop House, but said students should focus on more important things than “what container they drink beer out of.”

“There’s an election tomorrow and a war pending in the Middle East,” Hanson said.

But Harvard students have not let their dissatisfaction with the administration’s keg policy stop them from coming up with alternative ways to drink come Nov. 23.

“Don’t let the keg ban hold you back!” urges a website set up by several undergraduates to promote the sale of eight-ounce stainless steel flasks engraved with the slogan “HARVARD-YALE: THE GAME.”

Matt Chingos ’05, one of the students involved in selling the flasks, said there has been a brisk demand on the part of students. They have sold between 20 and 25 of the $25 flasks so far, he said.

Other students are taking more mundane steps to evade the ban.

Andre V. Moura ’03, who said he has drunk from kegs at past Games, said he will “pay a lot more for canned beer” this year.

Jeremy N. King ’04, who also said he has drunk from kegs at past Games, said he has “no really clever plans, but just because people won’t have kegs I’m sure they’ll have a wealth of other options.”

In addition, several HoCo chairs have mentioned the possibility of buying alcohol wholesale before the Game in containers other than kegs, but Leverett HoCo co-chair Michal Y. Spechler ’03 said the process would be too logistically complicated for her House to undertake.

She added that the alternative may be even less appealing to the administration.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if people drank heavily in their rooms before,” she said, “and that’s a shame.”