Campus legend holds that the land where Anderson Hall sits used to be a marshy, wet frog habitat and when Rice announced they were building this building (the first one constructed on campus after the end of World War II), the students were upset that the frogs’ home would be destroyed. As the story goes, in tribute to the displaced amphibians, an experiment in audio architecture was incorporated into the building’s façade: a series of round indentations, surrounding the building’s quad-facing doorway, allows students and campus visitors to run their fingers down the holes, producing a sound like a frog’s ribbit.