What does Holi Hai mean? It’s Holi! The NYC Bhangra Dance Company hosted the third annual Holi Hai festival sponsored by ZEE TV and Zing in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in New York on March 22 to celebrate the festival of colors and the arrival of spring.

NYC Bhangra showed off their traditional bhangra moves on stage. Many local performance groups presented dances from other cultures; NYC Dance Arts group got the crowd moving with an African-spiced bhangra. NYC Bhangra encouraged the audience to dance along with the performers and demonstrated how to bhangra during an interactive session.

While festival-goers weren’t dancing, some received decorative henna tattoos. Others enjoyed traditional South Asian food served by Ruchi Indian Cuisine. The festival-goers passed around small bags of bright colored powder, or gulal. The crowd quickly became an undulating sea of colors, and gulal filled the air and covered the ground. A picturesque sign that spring had arrived!

NYC Bhangra’s Third Annual Holi Hai, a set on Flickr.

Are you swamped with midterms and loads of assignments this semester? Below is a guide to demonstrate how to procrastinate an assignment at Hofstra University like a boss.

Assemble all the supplies you need to start the assignment, usually just a personal laptop. After opening a new word document, ignore it at all costs. You can waste time by surfing the web and checking Facebook. Meet up with friends at Hofstra USA and procrastinate by enjoying food and conversation.

If you must return to your room, avoid working on your assignment by cleaning dirty dishes, doing laundry, taking a nap, catching up on your favorite television shows, or taking a shower.

By 3 a.m., you haven’t worked on your assignment. You turn to your bed, and it looks so comfortable. Don’t worry! Do your assignment in the morning before class like a boss.

Aalia Manghnani and Danielle McKay, both senior marketing majors at Hofstra University, are excited to travel to San Juan, Puerto Rico with friends for spring break in April.  As seniors, these girls have planned a spring break or two, traveling to Los Angeles and Montreal in previous years.  They suggest students on a budget should plan spring break with friends at least a month in advance and be on the look out for the cheapest airfares.  The girls wanted to travel to the Dominican Republic this year, but the flight alone would have set them back 1500 dollars.  After seeing round trip airfares to Puerto Rico for as low as 300 dollars on Expedia, the girls jumped at the chance to cheaply travel to warmer climate for sun and partying.

Four candidates continue to battle for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination as Super Tuesday approaches. According to The Associated Press, Mitt Romney leads the pack with 203 delegate votes. Rick Santorum comes in second place with 92 delegate votes. Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul continue to fall behind in the Republican presidential primaries. Gingrich holds on with 33 delegate votes while Paul manages to stay afloat with 25 delegate votes.

The maps below show the number of delegates allocated, some unofficially, to each candidate as of March 5, 2012, from the first 12 caucuses and primaries. 

The 2012 GOP presidential primary season is nowhere near over. Over 400 delegate votes from 10 states are up for grabs on Tuesday, but none of the candidates will be able to accumulate 1,144 delegates, which is the number of votes needed to clinch the Republican presidential nomination. Stay tuned for an updated GOP delegate tracker after Super Tuesday on my Tiki-Toki timeline.