AROUND 2000 under-graduate students from St Andrews University took part in the traditional Raisin Monday yesterday.

The annual event, which has been running since the 1800s, created riotous scenes of students in fancy dress frantically coating one another in shaving foam at the Quadrangle in St Salvator’s Hall.

The idea behind the event is to help new students settle into university life by allocating them an academic parent—an older student.

The newcomers present a gift, usually a bottle of wine, and in return receive a receipt that must be carried around for the rest of the day.

Notable receipts that were gifted to first-year students this year included a rowing boat, a mattress and a canoe.

However, officials overseeing the event had to step in and confiscate some unsuitable receipts that included a pigs head, a salmon and a suitcase filled with cement.