The above quote is from Andy Shaindlin (Class of 1986). Read the full memory below:

In 1983-84 I worked in the mail room at the Rock, with full time staffers Jim Hannon and Dick Tortorella. They were really great guys to work with and to hang out with. One benefit of working the mail room was being the first person to unpackage and see the Library system’s “new” acquisitions—including handling rare and unusual books before the Special Collections experts even knew they had arrived. On occasion I would take home a new book and read it quickly, before it was catalogued by Acquisitions—but never anything rare, and never for more than a few days…

I was also only one of the only students who knew about the secret tunnel that connected the Rock with the John Hay…