“Athletes always stop here for dinner,” wrote Elsa S. Kim ’08 in an e-mail.

“I don’t think it’s because of the gate—which is good, because I really like having it open. There are too many closed gates at Harvard,” she added.

Although many restrictions go unenforced, most dining halls—all except the Quad Houses, Dunster, and Mather—have some sort of guest-restriction policy in place. Lowell House, which formally bars interhouse dinners, is considering adding lunch limits in light of recent overflow crowds.

Lowell House Committee Co-Chair Kaartiga Sivanesan ’06 said 500 students swiped into Lowell Dining Hall between noon and 1p.m. on Monday, resulting in a line that stretched into the couryard.

But Sivanesan said that the HoCo was “hesitant to institute restrictions, because we like to have the dining hall open. We’ve decided to give it another week because people are still figuring out their schedules.”

—Staff writer Sam Teller can be reached at steller@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Nina L. Vizcarrondo can be reached at nvizcarr@fas.harvard.edu.