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Hundreds of first-year students took to St Salvator’s Quad to take part in the messy ceremony for Raisin Monday.
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Hundreds → take → Monday
“It’s so much fun.
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It’s a huge tradition here.
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We didn’t want to miss out,” the group said.
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group → want → ?
Raisin Monday is a tradition where older students adopt first-year students as “children” and help guide them through mentoring.
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students → adopt → mentoring
The tradition is intended to help freshers meet new people and settle in.
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freshers → intend → people
The mentoring originally started in Raisin Weekend, when “children” were entertained by their “parents” and are encouraged to play pranks and silly games.
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children → start → pranks
On Raisin Monday, the “children” dressed in flamboyant costumes and were traditionally given “raisin receipts” by their “parents”, usually consisting of strange objects with a traditional Latin inscription.
However, over time, this tradition has evolved and students are encouraged to donate items for the local food bank instead, before being let loose on Lower College lawn for an enormous, shaving foam fight.
The unusual tradition is believed to date back to the university’s founding in 1413.
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tradition → dress → 1413
On Monday, third-year students lined the foaming arena to cheer on their “children”, often dressed up the same to signify their “family” ties.
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students → line → ties
Students donned costumes from smurfs, to minions, and pigs, and were kept stocked up on shaving foam for the fight.
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Students → don → fight
Speaking to the Press Association, Chloe, 17, and Anais, 18, explained that each “family” is supposed to choose a theme and dress the “children” up so each group can recognise each other.
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group → speak → other
“Our family chose to do face paints,” Anais said.
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Anais → choose → paints
“We woke up at three, and then we just all got ready together at one of our academic parents’ places, and obviously there’s a foam fight now, and it’s been really, really fun.
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it → wake → places
And what’s really good is that we had to give food donations as well before we came in.”
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we → ’ → donations
Misha Bahlaj, 18, and Dakota Flaget, 21, first year students who were dressed as smurfs for the foam fight, agreed that the tradition had been “so fun”.
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tradition → dress → fight
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Misha, who had shaving foam completely covering her ears and face, said: “I can barely see, I can barely hear, but I’m enjoying myself.”
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I → read → myself
First year student Adam Gibb said he did not know what to expect coming into the day, but he said he was having a great time.
“I didn’t really know (what to expect) to be honest, but this is really fun.
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this → say → what
This has exceeded my expectations, whatever they were,” he said.
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he → exceed → expectations
Another group of students, dressed as fairies from Barbie: Fairytopia, called the foam fight tradition “amazing” and said they were having an “incredible amount of fun”.
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they → dress → fun
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