Photo of the week
Raisin Monday
Tuesday 30 October 2012
Hundreds of first year students enjoyed Autumn sunshine during the annual Raisin Monday foam fight in St Salvator’s Quad this week. Angels, pigs, super heroes, witches, bumblebees, and even Pacman made an appearance at the event. At the end, staff from Student Services and Estates were on hand to help students remove the foam and clean up on the way out.
The tradition dates back to the early days of the university when new students would give senior students one pound of raisins in gratitude for their help in adapting to university life, in exchange for a receipt written in Latin. Failure to produce such a receipt could result in a dousing in the local fountain. Nowadays the raisins have been replaced with a bottle of wine and the dousing with foam.