Down in the basement: A customer is ready to put cash on the table at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore’s former home, underground and labyrinthine, in what was then the Chicago Theological Seminary building on University Avenue. (Photography by Richard Zubek, AB’00, UChicago Photographic Archive, apf7-02598, University of Chicago Library)

Bringing the underground to Max Palevsky Cinema: George Chauncey, then assistant professor of history (left), and Hank Sartin, AM’88, PhD’98 (right), pose with reels from Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rope (1948) during the Doc Films Gay and Lesbian Film Series in 1992. (Photography by Adam Lisberg, AB’92, UChicago Photographic Archive, apf7-03733, University of Chicago Library)

Remembrance of meals past: Food preparation staff at the former Pierce Tower serve plates to students in 1993. (Photography by Richard Kornylak, AB’95, UChicago Photographic Archive, apf7-02162, University of Chicago Library)

Signature style: Author and activist Adrienne Rich greets students and autographs books after a poetry reading in Ida Noyes Hall in 1991. (Photography by Marina Mezey, AB’93, UChicago Photographic Archive, apf7-00547, University of Chicago Library)

Taking the air: In this undated photograph, a student cracks open a book, and a window, in the former Shoreland Hall dormitory. (Photography by John Hockenberry, EX’84, UChicago Photographic Archive, apf7-05229, University of Chicago Library)

Conversation piece: At the 1968 reunion, the president’s reception brought alumni of different generations together at the Renaissance Society’s Bergman Gallery in Cobb Hall. (Photography by Uosis Juodvalkis, EX’68, UChicago Photographic Archive, apf3-02056, University of Chicago Library)

Young mods’ forgotten story: A group of students stands in the ruins of Stagg Field during the construction of the Joseph Regenstein Library, 1969. From left to right: Bernard Sawyer, SB’71; Douglas Adams, AB’68, PhD’72; John Bryant, AB’71, AM’72, PhD’75; William Hogle, AB’71; Hank Parker, AB’71, JD’74; and Patrick White, AB’71. (UChicago Photographic Archive, apf2-06132, University of Chicago Library)

One man’s castle: In this undated photograph, a student in Burton-Judson Courts shows off a dorm room featuring abstract art, aquatic life, and a growing library and record collection. (UChicago Photographic Archive, apf4-02481, University of Chicago Library)