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Inside Risley's Castle

One Daze staffer ventures into the infamously elusive Risley Hall

October 29, 2008 - 11:00pm
By Sydney Arkin

5:30 p.m.: I’d been sitting with Rockwell, Ethan and Jon for over 20 minutes, so I figure it safe to get to the heart of the subject. “So ... what’s up with the orgies?” Laughter ensues. 6:00 p.m.: Dinner time. The infamous Mathis Jackson swipes us in — Mathis knows every person in Risley by name. We go through the assembly line. “You have to get the stir fry. It’s amazing,” Jon tells me. “No really, you just have to get the stir fry. It’s so good ... seriously get the stir fry.” 6:06 p.m.: I sit down, sans stir fry. “Hey, you should really try Risley’s stir fry,” says Sonny Xu ’12.

Without Transfer Center, Students Placed on North, in C-Town and on West

September 24, 2008 - 11:00pm
By Sam Zarnegar

It was move-in day and he was a 30-minute walk from Central Campus. His window opened up into a cement wall. His room was located one floor below ground level. Living in the basement of graduate housing was not what Kyle Doebler ’10 was expecting when he transferred to Cornell from East Stroudsburg University.

Technically, Schuyler House, where Doebler lives, is “on-campus housing” because it is owned by Cornell, although it is located just beyond lower Collegetown. The closest dining hall where he can use his meal plan is on West Campus.

Like most other transfer students, Doebler submitted his housing application in June before the July 1 deadline. But unlike the other transfers, Doebler is living with graduate students.

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