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Spring parade starring a mythical beast\u2014with campus-wide revelry\u2014continues one of the Hill\u2019s most enduring traditions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although this year\u2019s Dragon Day beast featured a minimalist, dark gray design, the festive parade across campus March 29 was a colorful, joyous affair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lumber-and-cardboard creature<\/a>\u2014whose aesthetic, its student designers say, was inspired by grunge rock\u2014utilized sustainable materials and focused on functionality. It sported moveable features such as a working jaw, a stretchable tail, and articulated wings that unfolded from the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First-year architecture students spent weeks designing and building the dragon, continuing an annual tradition that dates back<\/a> to the early 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, in a rite of passage that has come to mark the beginning of spring, the fierce-looking creature and its human handlers led hundreds of costumed revelers in a lively procession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First-year architecture students spent weeks designing and building the dragon, continuing an annual tradition that dates back to the early 20th century.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In some years, Engineering students build a phoenix to symbolically \u201cbattle\u201d the dragon as it passes their quad\u2014and for 2024 they did so in splendid fashion, with their bright orange beast clutching a small stuffed dragon in its talons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And throughout the route that wound from Rand Hall to the Arts Quad, the procession was cheered on by the traditional chant: \u201cDragon! Dragon! Dragon! Oi! Oi! Oi!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Images and video by Cornell University photographers and producers Alex Bayer, Lindsay France, Sreang Hok, Jason Koski, and Paul Newman.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published April 2, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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