
Turn right (north) on South Central walkway through Ho Plaza.Once the parade begins, vehicular access along the parade route will be restricted, and bus routes may be delayed or rerouted as necessary. The annual Dragon Day Parade will be held Friday, March 19, 1 to 3 p.m. "It can lower into a dive and then lift into a takeoff position," co-president Kevin Alexander '14 added. Mounted on a Volkswagen bus chassis, the dragon's steel-frame body pivots on a fulcrum "that essentially makes the dragon into a big see-saw," construction manager Jake Rudin '14 said. The 2010 edition will be "an angry, swooping dragon," said Dragon Day 2010 co-president Erin Pellegrino '14, interviewed March 16 in Rand while other first-years gave one another special Dragon Day hairstyles. Many of the students, supervised by adviser Brian Beeners, have been working long hours inside and outside of the Rand Hall Shop, welding, hammering, sawing, fabricating parts and making their scaly creature function as intended. '00, has assembled an exhibition in East Sibley Hall showing dragons from previous years.

Their studio instructor, visiting critic Aleks Mergold, B.Arch. The dragon, designed and constructed by first-year architecture students, will be paraded through campus Friday, March 19, starting at 1 p.m., cheered on by hundreds of costumed students and then burned on the Arts Quad.Ībout 50 architecture students are involved in Dragon Day, a springtime tradition at Cornell since 1901.
DRAGON SPRING PHOENIX RISE DURATION WINDOWS
"Burn" is spelled out in the second-floor windows of Rand Hall on March 17.Ī swooping dragon will meet a flying phoenix this year during the annual Dragon Day rite of spring.
