Word: auction
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Appropriately enough, current Sigma Chi Sweetheart Katharine S. Widland ’04 met her boyfriend, Ruben Marinelarena ’02-’03, when she bid on him at a date auction hosted by sorority Delta Gamma. Since their first date, Widland has been a fixture at fraternity events. She and Marinelarena even stayed at the Sigma Chi house in Daytona, Fla., last intersession. Jacquet said Widland’s selection began earlier this semester, when the chapter nominated several sweetheart candidates. At a meeting two weeks later, the brothers held a vote in the same...
...debt-ridden Turnpike Authority announced the parcel’s auction in January after years of back-and-forth discussions on the potential for the land, which is split down the middle by turnpike roads and crisscrossed by CSX railway tracks. In 1997, the Turnpike sold a less-encumbered 47-acre piece of adjacent property to the University for $151 million...
Howard suffered severe facial injuries as a result of an apparent attack that occurred after a charity auction at the Weld Boathouse with rowers from both Harvard and Northeastern. Two Northeastern students will be arraigned on charges in connection with the incident, one for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and the other for larceny. Both rowers have been suspended, and as a result, there will not be a JV race between the two schools this Sunday. Events will be limited to the varsity eight and four as well as freshmen races...
...highest bidder in an auction for 91 acres of severely encumbered Allston land, Harvard will likely expand its land holdings across the river by nearly one third this Friday—but the new land could come with some heavy political baggage...
...Harvard’s approximately $5 million offer will probably win the auction for the contested piece, according to Turnpike Authority spokesperson Sean O’Neil...