Yamatai — Cornell's Japanese drumming group — will amaze this Saturday at their annual PULSE event, and Colin Chan '14 will tell you why.

Will Spencer '12 outlines some basic rules for surviving the dreaded group project.

Pavan Kottamasu reflects on his experience joining Pao Bhangra at Cornell. 

The same semester it nearly halved the funding cap for student groups, the budget for the Student Assembly Finance Commission budget rose by four percent. Thirty-five percent of the SAFC’s budget was used for catered food — an expenditure prohibited by the SAFC’s requirements for the student organizations that it funds.

The Student Assembly Finance Commission reduced the fall 2011 funding cap for hundreds of student groups from $5,000 to $2,700. Seventy-one new groups applied for funding this year, leading to substantially reduced budgets for all groups as the SAFC spreads its resources thinner.

The Melodramatics Theatre Company, Inc. features students both from Cornell and Ithaca College, is entirely student run and will be performing Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at Risley Theater this month.

Unofficial student organization, The Gay Mafia, has been staging parties and events to make its presence felt at Cornell. Julia Fulop writes about what goes on, and how members feel about the group's activity.

After six years of competing for new members, two rival student investment groups decided to merge.

In 1901, senior Willard Dickerman Straight organized the first ever Dragon Day at Cornell, a tradition in which a Chinese Dragon, built by first-year architecture students, is paraded across campus. A Far East scholar at Cornell, Straight was appointed as the American Consul-General in Manchuria shortly following his graduation and went on to dedicate much of his short life to improving relations between the U.S. and China.

To the Editor:

Re: “S.A. Halts Creation of Student Groups,” News, Jan. 30 & “Taking Pause,” Editorial, Jan. 30