Student vs. Alumni Sports Day

2014 marks the 125th anniversary of the formation of the original University of Aberdeen Athletics Association. To celebrate this and to welcome our new students on to campus we are hosting the University’s first ever Student vs. Alumni Sports Day on 13 September 2014.

Whether you graduated this year or 50 years ago, or whether you took part in sport competitively or just for fun the Sports Day will offer something for everyone to enjoy.

What you can look forward to:

• Exhibition matches: rugby, hockey, netball, lacrosse, water polo, indoor rowing, football, golf and tennis
• Traditional sports day fun games
• Come and try sessions
• Food, drink and family entertainment

This is a great opportunity to meet up with fellow alumni and to welcome some new students to the Aberdeen family.

For more information or to register for a team please visit www.abdn.ac.uk/sportsday

 

Early Morning, from Union Terrace, Aberdeen

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A Dastardly Deed

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Instagramer rhonarhona came across this curious plaque on a bench at the University of Aberdeen. The plaque, which is inscribed with “The Cloche Boys – Nov 3 1953, In Penance for a Dastardly Deed”, relates back to an event in 1953, when a group of students decided to steal the library bell as a prank .

The bell was used at the time to signal the closing of the library each evening, an annoying grievance for students studying into the night.

The “Cloche Boys”, who were all students in the Faculty of Arts, conspired to hide behind a bookcase one evening, until the library had been vacated and checked by the night watchman. The bell was then carried out of the building, across the playing fields, to be spirited away in a waiting car.

The father of one of the students was the deputy editor at the local Press and Journal newspaper, which helped secure some valuable publicity for the pranksters. After a meeting with the P&J photographer, the bell was taken to the home of the one the students for safe keeping.

The bell was returned anonymously to the University three days later.  It wasn’t until decades later therefore that the identities of the the pranksters were revealed, when the former students donated the bench to mark the quincentenary of the University.

A full account of the dastardly deed is contained in a later interview given by a number of the students, available online from University of Aberdeen, Special Collections.

The Making of a Magazine

The University of Aberdeen’s Science Journalism Society produces AU Science Magazine. Check out their video showing all the work that goes into producing an issue of the magazine.

For more information about AU Science Magazine or how to get involved visit ausm.org.uk

 

 

River Dee, Aberdeen

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