Scotland PICTURES: Hundreds of Scots students cover themselves with foam in bizarre university ritual By Reporter October 17 2016, 3:18 pm October 17 2016, 3:18 pm Share PICTURES: Hundreds of Scots students cover themselves with foam in bizarre university ritual Share via Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Messenger Linkedin Email Post link https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/scotland/1057817/pictures-hundreds-students-cover-foam-bizarre-university-ritual/ Copy Link Hundreds of students covererd themselves with shaving foam today as part of a 600-year-old ritual at one of Britain’s oldest universities. The foam fight at St Andrews University is part of the institution’s annual Raisin Weekend, where new students are welcomed by their senior peers. It involves older student ‘parents’ inflicting tasks on unfortunate freshers that they have adopted as ‘children’ as part of a mentoring scheme.
