![]() ![]() ![]() “This year we’re getting a little friendly pushback from them,” she said. The T-shirt design features a subtle image of a phoenix as “a little toss to the engineers,” Eggers said, referring to the architects’ Dragon Day rivals. “They’ve been very helpful, giving us advice …” “We’re the first freshman class on the plate, and the upper-years are always circling around our desks, asking us how it’s going,” Eggers said. “We had to wrangle everyone to pick a theme.”īorrowing the theme of “Apocalypse” from Mayan prophecy, the students are tying it to Cornell’s sesquicentennial through such design elements as a “150” on the McGraw clock tower about to be destroyed by the dragon on the event T-shirts, sold to raise funds for the next class of first-years. The co-presidents were elected to lead the Dragon Day effort in the first week of classes, and “within a couple of weeks we were starting a design process,” Cullen said. “We had to do a lot of yelling to get this started,” said co-president Maddy Eggers, B.Arch. ![]() “The pace of all our classes this year has picked up and having this on top of it has been stressful.” “We’ve gotten very close as a class,” said Dragon Day co-president Ainslie Cullen, B.Arch. The colorful 114-year-old Cornell tradition continues March 27 with the first-years accompanying their creation in a parade at 1 p.m., on a route circling from Rand Hall to the Arts Quad. The annual Dragon Day celebration is a teambuilding effort for the students and a spring ritual on campus. The imagination, technical knowledge and labor of 52 first-year architecture students, who carve out time for the extracurricular project between classes and during nights at their studio workstations in Milstein Hall or in the Rand Hall shops. In addition to this important legislation, ministers are also looking at further measures to protect animals abroad, including banning the import and export of detached fins and acting against poor standards of animal welfare internationally.Fabiana Berenguer cuts metal piping for the dragon’s frame behind Rand Hall on March 23.įifteen hundred feet of quarter-inch to 1.5-inch steel, 72 yards of fabric, 64 cubic feet of insulation foam, wooden jigs for construction, suspension cables and a little paint and glue. The Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill has now been introduced to Parliament. The proposed ban on imports of hunting trophies goes beyond the manifesto commitment and, with no exemptions, means that the UK will be leading the way in protecting endangered animals and to strengthen and support long-term conservation. In the 25 Year Environment Plan, the Government committed to provide international leadership in protecting biodiversity and endangered species and ensuring that the UK’s domestic policy does not threaten the conservation of species abroad. Overexploitation is one of the drivers of species extinction and additional pressures on vulnerable species can result from unsustainable or inappropriately managed activity. Ministers will deliver one of the toughest bans in the world on the import of hunting trophies from nearly seven thousand endangered and threatened species, including lions, rhinos, elephants and polar bears.Ĭlimate change and global biodiversity decline are interlinked threats for wildlife and people. Biodiversity is declining at a dangerous and unprecedented speed and species extinction rates are accelerating, with up to a million species threatened. The Government is committed to doing all it can to support wildlife and the environment, both in the UK and internationally. ![]()
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