A large crowd was gathered in Columbian Square in the Marvin Center on Tuesday as the RHA auctioned and raffled off several dorm rooms for next year as part of Martha’s 2009. The event coincided with a Mexican-themed Freshman Feast.While students dined on tacos, the RHA auctioned off nine different rooms, including a quad in Ivory Tower that went for $4,600 to a group of four friends.
“A friend of ours won the room last year, and he suggested we go for it,” said Anurag Ambasht who, along with his three friends, won the highly-contested auction for the room in Ivory Tower. “We plan on holding the room for a few years.”
However, not all of the rooms offered went for so much. A double in FSK had to be tabled due to lack of interest; the starting bid had been set at $250, but was lowered to $200 before finally being closed when no one would bid. A large Munson Hall double, expected to bring in a large amount of money, went for a mere $550.
Other prizes besides rooms were also auctioned off, including two season passes to Six Flags that went for one hundred dollars. The package also included two free massages.
Raffle tickets, which were being sold at $2 each, gave students another way to win a room, with one raffle winner receiving the option to choose any room on campus to live in next year, along with the ability to choose their own roommates. 2,500 raffle tickets were sold.
Before the auction, students had the option to play Bingo for various prizes, including movie tickets.
Proceeds from Martha’s 2009 went to the General Scholarship Fund.
-Alex Laska
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