1982_03 The Daily Collegian March 1982

              Page 2—the Daily Collegian—March 4, 19*2
Auction planned for disabled students's fund
By We* tleins
Deilv CoHepan Stall Writ**
In about a month, "when we can count
on dependable weather." Stan Todd will
mount the stage in the Free Speech Area
and enter a different world.
Todd is a counselor in the Disabled
Student Services office and will play auctioneer for a day to raise money for the
Becky Honda Memorial Scholarship.
Honda was a student volunteer who
worked in the Disabled Student Services
office until she was killed in an auto accident. Family and friends donated the
memorial fund, and now the auction helps
to build up the fund.
First Todd will offer up an item for sale.
If no one appears interested, he will then
try (o convince his audience what a great
deal be is offering, or he may beg and
plead for someone to offer something—
anything—for the item. He may sell it as a
group with several other similar items for
a modesi price, or even give it away.
In the past he has gone so far as to takoa
box and empty it onto the crowd, saying:
"OK. take it then. If anyone sees something they want, give me what you think
it's worth."
"It's a great gimmick to grab the
crowd's attention."he said. "I'm not a carnival man. but I got wound up in what I
was doing. You really get into the act and
go with it.
"We made an extra 20 or 30 bucks that
way."
The articles for sale are donated by the
campus police from lost and found. The
police try lo locate the owner, and if
unsuccessful, hold all items for six
months. After six months, they are turned
over to Disabled Student Services for the
auction, which is held once a semester.
Todd and Weldon Percy, coordinator
of Disabled Student Services, have
worked together on the project.
The office started the auctions four
years ago with a professional auctioneer,
but in 1980 the professional was not available. Todd found out he had been "elected" half an hour before the action.
This is truly recycling." Percy said.
'Students can get a $60 to S70 or $100
calculator for $25."
The two said the year 1980 was "a good
year for losing-things." That year Disabled
Student Services made $500 on the auction.
The item bringing the biggest price was
a Puegeot bicycle (worth $200 or more)
that sold for $75. "If I had need fora bike.
I wouldn't have let it go for that price,"
Percy said.
That was a good year for losing
things." Todd said. "Something we no
ticed about the economy." Percy added,
"is that when it's bad, people are a lot
more careful about trying to reclaim them
(lost items).
According to Todd, they're not sure
when exactly this semester's auction will
be.
"We check the heavens, consult with the
stars and moon, look at the weather—
never publicize it—and decide a week in
advance to hold it." he said with a grin.
"Once before when we planned it ahead of
time we had a tropical storm that just
about floated us away."
Seriously, though, he said, the auction
would be announced in the faculty's
Monday Report and in the Daily Col
legian.
There have been a few times when people have seen items for sale at the auction
and claimed them. Todd and Percy have
both had it happen to them.
"One woman said that's mine when I
was auctioning off something (he still does
not know what it was) one time," Todd
said. "I smiled and said 'Fine, take it.'The
crowd loved it because they sensed that wc
were not ripping anyone off. and that
made them all the more willing to bid."
Percy said it happened to him once with
a piece of clothing.
"A woman said it was hcri. I said fine,
make a bid for it and let the money go fora-
good cause. She liked that and ended up
buying it anyway."
CSUF today.
The rock band "Process" will play in The
Bucket for the next five consecutive Thursdays.
The band will play from 8:30 to 11 p.m.
Sign up* for Intramural water polo teams is
due in the IM Office by 5 p.m. For information
Ames, Iowa is hosting the NCAA Wrestling
Finals, in which the CSUF team will compete.
The men's swimming team travels to Long
Beach to compete in the PCAA Championships. Competition will continue all day.
The Bulldogs will compete in their first game
in the PCAA Tournament at Anaheim tonighi.
The 'Dogs had a bye in the first round of Ihc
tournament.
March 4. 1982-the Dally Collejian-Page 3
Campus police operate lost and found dept.
Mllr rami Daily Colkf un
Investigator Michael O'Reilly h standing In a small closet filled with lost and found Hems. Some of these Hems include keys, coats,
textbooks, lost checks, watches and radios. O'Reilly notes that there is another back room with more found articles.
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The CSU F campus police operate a lost
& found, but apparently few people know
about it. according to police department
officials.
"Every department has a lost and
found." investigator Michael O'Reilly
said. "If something is left somewhere, that
department turns the item over to the
university police, which has the central
lost and found."
He said that may be why some people
never recover lost items. They go back to
where they think they left h, and it's been
turned over to us," he said. They don't
know that we have a lost and found in the
office."
Dispatcher Susan Jeans said that the
lost arid found is not publicized very well,
but that the police try to return lost items
to their owners.
"Anything with a name on it we send a
letter to the owner," she said.
O'Reilly said, however, that docs not
always work.
'We've got a SI00 check over here with
a guy's name on it." he said. "We sent him
a letter, but he n*»-   -"•*—• =t Dn '
Once ineDepartment recovers something,
it fills out a tag—where and when it was
found, condition, et al—and stores it for
six months.
At the end of that six months, unclaimed
items are turned over the Disabled Student
Services to be auctioned off. Unclaimed
items in the office now include: bicycles,
wrist watches, radios, a pair of binoculars,
tennis rackets, jewelry, knapsacks and
books, an umbrella, calculators, and
many, many keys of all kinds.
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