Professor Evil feared children were becoming dancers instead of doctors in the cultural show’s skit this year, but that didn’t stop students from dancing and acting for charity on the Edison Theatre stage this weekend. Students in the nearly three-hour show performed traditional garba, raas and bhangra dances, as well as Bollywood fusion and hip hop.

Although Student Union continued to reject appeals last week due to budgetary constraints, an account outside of the group’s general operating budget continues to grow. A savings account, comprised of funds that were allocated to student groups but were never spent, has accrued to more than $300,000.

Ashoka announced that Holi is postponed because of a tornado watch on Friday at around 1:30 p.m. According to a Facebook message sent out at 3:15 p.m. the event has been moved to 2 p.m. on Saturday. Holi, a religious festival observed in India, is annually celebrated at Washington University with a water balloon and subsequent mud fight on the Swamp on the South 40.

On November 12 and 13, performances of Diwali were put on by Ashoka, the South Asian student association. Diwali, or the “festival of lights,” celebrates the victory of good over evil.

Last year, the entire campus came together to raise at least $9,000 for Haiti after an earthquake killed 300,000. These efforts stand in contrast to the student effort after devastating flooding in Pakistan since July.

Washington University students, numbering in the hundreds, converged on the Swamp on Friday for the event known as Holi, put on by Ashoka, Washington University’s South Asian cultural student group. Beginning at 3 p.m.

As the leaders of Ashoka and Dance Marathon, we wanted to let you know that this fall, Diwali and Dance Marathon will be taking place on the same weekend (Nov. 6-8). Student Life covered this situation when it occurred in 2004, and we wanted to be the first to tell you how each student group is addressing the potential concerns that could stem from this overlap.

Although Ashoka’s Diwali Cultural performance is over, the show’s Raas dance team has continued to rehearse and perform. The months of work team members contributed to the dance culminated in a third-place finish this past Saturday at the Dandia Dhamaka Raas competition. Dandia Dhamaka was one of the first national Raas competitions. There are now [...]

In response to numerous complaints from the student body, Ashoka, the Washington University South Asian students association that puts on the show Diwali, recently confirmed that it will change the method for distributing tickets to the show.

Ashoka understands the need to reform and overhaul the current system through which Diwali tickets are sold.