Holi celebrated at Newing Field

The event was organized by Delta Epsilon Psi and the Hindu Student Council.

Emily Maca arts & culture contributor

The campus was alive and joyous this past Saturday with the

Appointed to the position in 2009, Srihari had originally planned to leave in 2018. However, a hiring hold hindered the search for a successor, and after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic he agreed to remain as dean. He first joined Watson College in the department of systems science and industrial engineering in 1988, and acted as department chair from 2003 to 2009.

Donald Hall, Binghamton

annual celebration of Holi, a Hindu spring festival, on Newing College’s field. The event lasted for over two hours, amassing more than 100 people dressed in white shirts, all ready to throw colorful pouches at each other.

With a DJ in the background setting the soundtrack, participants were more than ready to run across

University’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, said Watson College has seen significant growth since Srihari took on the role.

“Since 2009, overall enrollment has grown from 1729 students to 3404,” Hall wrote in an email. “Of that, graduate school enrollment — which has been a priority for the University — has grown from 721 to 1259. Just in the past decade, full-time faculty has the Newing Field to hurl gulal — a colored powder typically used in some Hindu rituals — at their friends and others taking part. Several rounds of throwing gulal at one another left students and the entire field covered in a cacophony of colors from head to toe by the time the event ended.

Many attendees, like Alvina