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Polis House provides for more discussion I was particularly interested in reading Justin Dilley’s piece about the old ATO house and noted the headline “Flirting with Democracy” (Fall 1999). The thrust of the article would make it appear that democracy comes alive only in a group living context like what is described as “Wittenberg’s revolutionary experiment.” I would suggest that there is nothing revolutionary about the concept. It has existed on the Wittenberg campus for over a hundred years in the form of fraternities and sororities. The only unique features of the present arrangement are that it involves both sexes and benefits from significant tax advantages — no real property tax or sales tax — as an instrumentality of the university. If the ATOs were to return, I suspect they would be somewhat nonplussed by the presence of women but would otherwise fit right in. George Hopper ’32
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