The various inanimate icons of the Cornell campus comment on Madonna's upcoming halftime show.

Risley's "Junk" Opens over the weekend. 

A rare, first hand first time account of Risley Hall's annual production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Sometimes nature becomes your own personal restroom when there's no other option.

A student fell 30 feet into Fall Creek Gorge while apparently trying to rock climb near the Thurston Avenue bridge on Saturday afternoon. The student suffered “severe abrasions” and was airlifted to a hospital in Pennsylvania, according to John Carberry, a Cornell public information officer.

“Are you a virgin?!”

No, it’s not an advance of any sort. It’s an audience filter for the innocent, a means to weed out and expose Rocky Horror seedlings to the comically sensuous light of a theater experience unlike any other. A gleaming stripper pole, a monitor fashioned out of scored cardboard and a human torso, tasseled pasties and the Time Warp. A typical weekend, right? And what better way of spending it than seeing your classmates decked out in fishnets, body-glitter and six-inch platforms? You’ll find yourself compelled to stand up and boogie with your fellow confused but excited patrons, and you’ll be impressed by how many guys have it in them to rock a corset and a garter belt.

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Risley Hall recently shed some light on a piece of its historic architecture — literally. In September, lampposts were installed on the four gates the residential college, a project that was initiated by one of Cornell’s student architects.

It all started in 2006, when Joe DeSense ’09, then architecture student and Risley resident, came across several old photos of Risley from 1913, dug up by a friend who had been writing a paper on the history of Risley.

“I noticed these brick lampposts, two in each driveway leading up to the building, and thought, ‘Why did they get rid of something so nice?’” DeSense said.

DeSense eventually proposed his idea of restoring the lampposts to Elaine Bushey, Risley’s residence hall director, who responded favorably.

If you haven’t checked out Risley Theatre yet, you should. The perks? It’s free, it’s warm and you might just get to see a purple Teletubby go on a murderous rampage.