Students filled South Hall lounge Wednesday night to participate in an auction sponsored by the South Hall Council and the residential assistants, including senior Ray Chery, above.
The event was held to raise money for victims of the Hurricane Katrina disaster on the Gulf Coast. All proceeds from the auction will go immediately to the Red Cross. The auction featured everything from language tutoring to Hodgdon and Anna's Taqueria food pickup, from baking homemade goods and ice cream to doing laundry. Film Series offered the highest-selling item - a private screening of a movie during the second semester this year - which sold for $51.
Senior Megan Bentley, a South Hall residential assistant, came up with the original idea for the auction after she saw a similar event taking place in Hotung Caf?© ?o raise money for cancer research. In total, Bentley said 48 people auctioned off an item, although only 45 had registered at the start of the proceedings.By the end of the night, Bentley said the auction raised over $600 for the Red Cross.
