In previous years they burnt the dragon after it was repulsed by the the phoenix but this year it died in an enormous cloud of paint (... that's all folks!)

Students throw plumes of yellow paint at the dragon as a photographer takes close ups

White skeletal dragon procession with a large crowd and the new tower of the Hotel Administration school across the street is ready to confront the Phoenix in front of the engineering school

Crowd in front of the nanotechnology center at Duffield Hall at the threshold of the engineering school waits for the approaching dragon

Procession members take a break in front of Statler Hall

White unpainted dragon passes by Uris Hall

Big crowd gathered on Feeny Way for Dragon Day

Girl splattered with paint after they painted the dragon

The head of the dragon seen from the side after the precession painted the dragon at the parade's end

Members of the dragon procession pose for a group photo at the end of the parade

A woman wearing a lamppost costume has arm warmer clad hands near her face as she looks at a phone held by another woman wearing a red Yankees cap that says MoMA

A furry spectator to the dragon day parade observed in the crowd

Girls from the dragon procession splattered with green paint pose with the dragon

Fully painted dragon at the end of the dragon day parade on Cornell's Arts Quad surrounded by students in white T-shirts mostly splattered with paint

Student in traffic light costume in the parade for Dragon Day

Man carries child who carries the Cornell flag ahead of the Dragon in front of the Statler Hotel on Feeny Way

A group of denim clad students poses for a group photograph in front of the painted dragon

Happy crowd watches the dragon being painted at the end of the parade

Asian woman wearing a red and white dragon hoodie is a pallbearer for the Art and Architecture's Dragon in front of Willard Straight Hall

Drummer in samba band following the Dragon in the Dragon Day parade on Ho Plaza