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===Universities of Dundee and St Andrews===
At the [[University of Dundee]], '''gaudie nights''' are traditional student celebrations involving the issue of junior students (male "bejants" and female "bejantines") with senior 'academic parents' (typically one male, one female – a "senior man" and a "senior woman") in order to introduce them to higher education and to provide socialisation. These events are usually held a short time after the institution's [[Freshers' Week]]. The Night itself involves the academic parents taking their younger charges out for an evening's entertainment at the parent's expense.

These evenings are followed by '''Raisin Monday''' which is used by the junior students to thank the academic parents (usually in a ritualised fashion) for gaudie night. The junior student provides a gift for the senior student, and in turn receives a "receipt" from the senior – this receipt can be an item of clothing such as a hat or costume, or something challenging to carry, such as a car tyre or a lavatory seat, and the receipt is worn or carried by the bejant or bejantine until midday.   Raisin Monday typically happens at some point in the early winter of the first semester.

Similar traditions remain at Dundee University's erstwhile parent institution, the [[University of St Andrews]], but are however incorporated into a '''Raisin Weekend''' and the term '''gaudie night''' is not used for the first night.  Many traditions surround this event including Raisin receipts in Latin, a foam fight, and Raisin strings given by the academic mother to be hung on the Bejant/Bejantine's academic gown.

St Andrews has a separate ceremony known as the gaudie which involves a gowned torchlight procession and singing of the Gaudeamus in memory of a student, [[John Honey]] who risked his life in 1800 to save survivors of a shipping accident offshore.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.katekennedyclub.org.uk/history.aspx|title=katekennedyclub|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100324201001/http://www.katekennedyclub.org.uk/history.aspx|archivedate=2010-03-24}}</ref>