“The first day I showed up on campus I saw a group of people practicing with swords outside Risley,” said Jennifer Wholey ’10, president of Cornell’s Ring of Steel Club. The combatants, as it turned out, were members of Ring of Steel.
A reincarnation of a former Cornell club and also an American incarnation of a 2,000-year-old Chinese sport, the Cornell Dragon Boating Club has a colorful history.