Two blocks west of Northwestern University’s campus in Evanston, Illinois, lies a house colloquially referred to as the Frisbee House. All eleven inhabitants are current undergraduate students at Northwestern and all of them play for Northwestern’s club ultimate frisbee team. Like most houses rented to college students in Evanston, the Frisbee House is a little run down, or as my father put it, “well lived-in.” The front door knob occasionally falls off, the first-floor toilet sometimes flushes weird, there are holes in the wall nobody can explain… it’s far from perfect, but for those eleven students, it’s home.
It’s been home to a lot more than eleven students.