Cultural colors come to campus

For some, springtime brings visions of blue skies that hold yellow sunshine which beams down on green grass with pink, white, and yellow flowers that dance in the breeze.

The Festival of Colors is a Hindu holiday known as Holi to celebrate that spring is around the corner in India and Nepal. This year, the International club brought this celebration to Chadron State College.

“One way we celebrate Holi is by embracing the colors of spring,” said Fathima Sana, an exchange student from India.

This year, the CSC’s international students and guests kicked off the Festival of Colors by gathering in the grass east of the Student Center, engaging in water fights while they spattered powdered colors at each other. Students were covered from head to toe in many different colors.

As if the vibrancy of the color wasn’t enough to celebrate the coming of spring, the 15 or so students maintained the exciting, color-throwing tempo to the beat of the music.

“Our goal with the Festival of Colors is to help grow the number of international students that attend CSC, as well as to make the international students that currently attend CSC feel more at home,” said Doris Liang, an exchange student from China.

Liang served as the Disc Jockey for the celebration and gave students an amplitude of music that ranged from the Macarena to Gangnam Style to the Cupid Shuffle. As the music played, students danced, and continued to celebrate the festival on this favorable spring afternoon.