Forrest Gander is a professor in Literary Arts at Brown. He shared the following Rock memory:

I remember teaching a poetry course in the Rock in the basement on a day when Sawako Nakayasu, an MFA candidate, was giving a presentation. When I opened the door to the room—the class in file behind me in the dark—we saw, by the skanky light of the big basement window, Sawako Nakayasu, completely immobile, cellophaned face-up on the middle of the table in the center of the room like the victim in a horror movie. Everyone rushed in. A little hole had been punctured in the cellophane over her lips and through that hole, she began her presentation.