27-514: Risley Hall can mean: Risley Residential College at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA Risley Hall, Derbyshire , now a hotel John Risley Hall at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Risley Hall . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
54-510: A graphic description of female circumcision . Huxley refused, and the book was published by Chatto & Windus . Huxley remembered: "It was indeed a happy day for me when our future Prime Minister couldn't take clitoridectomy ." The book was republished by Penguin Books in 1999 and again by Penguin Classics in 2000; Richard Dawkins played an important role in getting the book republished, and wrote
81-827: A preface to the new edition. Her final tally of 42 books included the ten works of fiction and 29 non-fiction books, as well as thousands of pamphlets and articles. During the Second World War, Huxley was a broadcaster for the BBC. In 1960, Huxley was appointed an independent member of the Advisory Commission for the Review of the Constitution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (the Monckton Commission ). Although she
108-426: A proposal to create university housing specifically for students interested in the arts, as well as decidated performance, practice, and other creative spaces. The Associate Dean of Students, Ruth Darling, was supportive of the proposal, which asked for 40 housing units, but, if there was sufficient demand, they might use Risley Hall. Student interest was overwhelming: the university received over 1000 applications for
135-470: A question and answer session after the showing of his film A Fish Called Wanda , and Samuel R. Delany who continues to collaborate with Risley alumnus Kenneth James. As a dormitory, Risley offers a unique living experience. The Tudor Gothic building itself is shaped like a large red castle, modeled directly on Hampton Court Palace in England. The architect, William H. Miller , was requested to design
162-474: A theater, music practice rooms, art workshops, a recording studio, a darkroom, and a small library. . The affairs of the building are managed by an elected student government, "Kommittee," which determines the budget, use of facilities, and allocation of funds. Students are also allowed to paint the interior walls, resulting in numerous murals throughout the hallways. The college hosts a coffee house called "Tammany," where regional bands perform. . Risley Theatre
189-521: Is an 81-seat black box theater built in a converted ballroom. It is the only fully student-operated theater on the Cornell campus. The theater is run by the Risley Theatre Subcommittee ("T-Sub"), a subcommittee of Kommittee. T-Sub is responsible for producing regular seasons, allocating theater resources, funding student-run productions, and managing the theater space. Performances are open to
216-573: Is placed somewhere in the building along with some cookies, on Monday nights and sends out clues as to where to find it. Legend says that Prudence Risley, affectionately known as "Auntie Prue," haunts the building, flickering the lights whenever she appears. Some doubt the stories, though, and wonder if these "hauntings" might actually be the result of old wiring and the imaginations of overtired students. Elspeth Huxley Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE (née Grant; 23 July 1907 – 10 January 1997)
243-507: The Creative and Performing Arts , commonly known as Risley Residential College , Risley Hall , or just Risley , is a program house (themed residence hall ) at Cornell University . Unlike most other dormitories on campus, Risley is a residential college ; house members, or "Risleyites," have some say in the administration of the residence hall, can continue to reside there as long as they are enrolled at Cornell, are encouraged to eat together at
270-512: The Risley Great Hall was constructed as a smaller scale replica of the dining hall at Oxford 's Christ Church . The hall features a large stained-glass window, portraying English social reformer Elizabeth Fry , U.S. First Lady Abigail Adams , and Scottish polymath Mary Somerville . It is the only gluten-free dining hall on Cornell's campus. The residence has a variety of spaces for students' creative and artistic endeavors, including
297-493: The building and organize regular programs in which the house members participate. There is not currently an Artist-In-Residence. Previous AIRs include Georgia O'Neil, Patrick Gray, Carolina Osorio-Gill, Natalie Tyler, Abraham Burickson , Gregory Halpern , and Brandon Bird. Many famous people have visited the house for intimate discussions with the Risleyites, such as Anthony Rapp , Christopher Hogwood , John Cleese , who hosted
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#1732863183851324-462: The creation of the Residential College include Matt Ruff , Mia Korf , Jamie Silverstein , Christopher Reeve , Andre Balazs , Madalyn Aslan , Duo Dickinson , Andrew C. Greenberg , David Conte , Jared Emerson-Johnson , Adam Becker , Yoon Ha Lee , Elizabeth Neuffer , and Keith Raywood . In addition to students, Risley houses one or two Artists-In-Residence ("AIRs"), who live in
351-433: The floor plan such that no two rooms would be identical. Consequently, the rooms vary greatly. Sizes range from a single room that is 93 square feet (9 m ), a former maid's room, to a double room that is 273 square feet (25 m ), the largest double on campus. Room features include balconies, fireplaces, dumbwaiter shafts, secret stairwells, bay windows , embrasures , and turrets . At the request of Andrew Dickson White ,
378-583: The general public. The hall hosts numerous annual events. For example, on the weekend before Halloween , students host a large costumed dance party called MasqueRave. On the weekend following Halloween, the "Denton Drama Troupe" (an in-house group) hosts a live performance of the Rocky Horror Picture Show in the Great Hall; this tradition was begun in 1991 by then-resident Paula Berman. Because both of these events draw hundreds of people, they generate
405-564: The in-house dining hall, and participate in educational activities such as guest lectures within the dormitory. In 1911, Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage , a progressive philanthropist and the widow of financier Russell Sage , donated $ 300,000 (equivalent to $ 10.8 million in 2023) to the university for the construction of a women's dormitory. At her request, the building was named after her husband's mother, Prudence Risley. Financier and Cornell trustee Emerson McMillin donated an additional $ 20,000 (equivalent to $ 654,000 in 2023) to purchase
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459-447: The making of Kenya about the famous white settler, was published in 1935. Huxley's 1939 book Red Strangers describes life among the Kikuyu of Kenya around the time of the arrival of the first European settlers. The manuscript was sent first to the publisher Macmillan , but Harold Macmillan , then working for the family firm, agreed to publish it only with considerable cuts, including
486-505: The requisite five-acre lot, the first expansion of Cornell's footprint north of the Fall Creek gorge, the beginning of the modern day North Campus. The building was opened to students in 1913. It was unusually luxurious, with sculptures and expensive furnishings in common areas, many of which were donated by Cornell co-founder Andrew Dickson White . In approximately 1969-70, undergraduates Judith Goodman ('71) and Gail Hassan ('71) developed
513-525: The rest collected by her. The collection covers Huxley's whole career (1896-1981) and subject matter includes Kenyan safari landscapes and local people (specifically the Kikuyu people ), the Mau Mau uprising , white settlers, Edwardian Mombasa , and a transcript of an oral history interview taken by the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum (Ref. 1995/076). Other collections related to Huxley can be found at
540-467: The revenue that supports smaller projects. Other notable events include themed dinners, such as Wizard's Feast, first organized in 2005 by Risley Resident, Charlene Morales. The event included a menu akin to several beloved dishes, snacks, and drinks such as "butter beer" unique to the Harry Potter film, drawing over 200+ guests. All dishes were uniquely crafted by kitchen director, Lorna McNab. The event
567-605: The roughly 200 spots in the building. Having demonstrated student interest in such a dormatory, in fall 1970, Risley Hall thus became the home of Risley Residential College for the Fine and Performing Arts, Cornell's first "program house." The building houses 196 students, chosen by Risleyites from a number of applications. Notable former Risley residents from before the creation of Risley Residential College include Margaret Bourke-White ', Elspeth Huxley , Barbara McClintock , Helen Reichert , and Janet Reno . Notable residents from after
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#1732863183851594-604: The son of doctor Henry Huxley (1865–1946) in 1931. They had one son, Charles, who was born in February 1944. Huxley died on 10 January 1997 aged 89, in a nursing home at Tetbury in Gloucestershire, England. A collection of twelve boxes of photographs, prints, negatives, contact prints and slides is held at Bristol Archives in the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection . Most of the photographs were taken by Huxley, with
621-662: Was adapted into a television miniseries in 1981. Elspeth was educated at a whites-only school in Nairobi . She left Africa in 1925, earning a degree in agriculture at Reading University in England and studying at Cornell University in upstate New York . She returned to Africa periodically. Huxley was appointed Assistant Press Officer to the Empire Marketing Board in 1929. She resigned her post in 1932 and travelled widely. Huxley started writing soon after her marriage; her first book, White Man's Country: Lord Delamere and
648-572: Was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard , based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya . Her husband, Gervas Huxley , was a grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley . Nellie and Major Josceline Grant, Elspeth's parents, arrived in Thika in what
675-517: Was initially an advocate of continued colonial rule , she later called for the independence of African nations. In the 1960s, she served as a correspondent for the National Review magazine. Huxley was a friend of Joy Adamson , the author of Born Free , and is mentioned in the biography of Joy and George Adamson entitled The Great Safari . Huxley wrote the foreword to Joy's autobiography The Searching Spirit . She married Gervas Huxley,
702-569: Was so beloved by all that it was then decreed a tradition. Another notable tradition is the reading of Handel 's Messiah . In addition to annual events, there are also several weekly events (programs), most of which involve free food. Kommittee allocates money every semester to fund events like Eat This!, in which one or more Risleyites cook food for everyone else on wednesdays at night, RisBrunch (RizBrunch), in which one or more Risleyites cook food for everyone else on Saturdays at noon, and Lost Coffee, in which one Risleyite makes coffee and tea, which
729-460: Was then British East Africa in 1912, to start a life as coffee farmers in colonial Kenya . Elspeth, aged six, arrived in December 1913, complete with governess and maid. Her upbringing was unconventional; she was "almost treated as a parcel, being passed from hand to hand". Huxley's 1959 book The Flame Trees of Thika explores how unprepared for rustic life the early British settlers really were. It
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