
Ethan Spitz/The Polytechnic
GRADUATE STUDENT JIM YOUNG AUCTIONS off Janette Zeeb ’14, Kathrine McDowell ’13, and Rachel Hill ’13 as dates to Friday’s Big Red Freakout for the Clothe-A-Child charity. The event started with the auctioneers opening the event up with a few pieces sung by the Rusty Pipes. Groups of people then lined up on stage to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. Each auction started off at $10 incremented by one dollar each time a bidder raised their plate. During each auction, the auctioneers would taunt bidders into bidding wars against each other to drive up the bids. Dates were bought for as high as $400 for charity. Halfway through the auction, RPI’s all male a cappella group, Duly Noted, sung a few pieces to give everyone a short break from bidding. The auction raised $1300 to help clothe children.