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When this house was Phi Psi, the attic was the room where they carried out their secret rituals. That's why there's a throne in the room. But what you might now know is that the attic is much more than the throne room. The ancillary rooms contain numerous secrets that are shrouded in, well, quite literal darkness. If you take a flashlight up there, you'll find all kinds of hidden treasures that the frat and previous co-opers left behind. For instance, there's a box of Phi Psi's secret materials. Handbooks, guides, things like that. All the stuff that they're never supposed to let go into another person's hands. Alot of it's dated. But a surprising amount of it is still applicable.

There are also ten year old lovenotes written on the walls (hell, write some of your own, not like someone will care). And there are newspapers that are even older. Tucked into one corner you can find the catapult that was built in '03, when Beltane coincided with Exotic Erotic. Some Synners set it up in that field out between EBF and 680 and pelted the party with water balloons. It continued as normal, but the cops were called. They had to high-tail it back home and hide it.

Finally, there's the grand-daddy of attic secrets. Back in '73, when this co-op experiment was new, the residents of the house had an extensive argument over whether to ban alcohol from the house entirely. In retaliation, one enterprising chemistry student built a complete, working liquor still in the attic. It's on the far western side of the house (the part above the front porch), tucked into one of the little side rooms. In '02, another enterprising chemistry graduate student cleaned it off and fired it up (with the right ingredients, of course). All I can say is that it didn't render anyone blind. A prop theer manual of how to operate it has been recovered from the EBF journals (since, you know, they used to be in this house) and pasted into the '73 journal.