The above quote is from Dagmar Schaeffer (Class of 1987 AM). Read the full memory below:

I came to Brown in summer of 1985, after I had graduated in Germany, as a teaching assistent in the German Department and a graduate student in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies.
I remember how impressed I was to learn that the “Rock” was open till midnight (or even later, I don’t recall details). This had been unheard of from German universities in those days. So I became a regular visitor at all hours of the day (and the evening!) although I did not like the building very much, but who cared. My most vivid memory is that of endless card files in hundreds of wooden drawers which I searched over and over to find the literature for my papers and my master’s thesis – and I found plenty!