Love at first bid
If you have been looking everywhere for your Valentine and you haven’t found him yet, maybe you should look under the nearest tree.

Members of Brothers Under Christ attracted attention and advertised their date auction by handing out fliers while tied to trees, rails and light posts Wednesday in the courtyard between Reed Hall and Sadler Hall. Other members will do the same today, BYX vice president Eric Anton said.

Tim Savage, a junior radio-TV-film major, will be auctioned off at 9 p.m. today in Sid Richardson Building, Lecture Hall 1 with 25 of his fraternity brothers. He said he volunteered to be tied to a light post in good fun.

“We needed some advertising and I decided to do it because I had some free time,” Savage said.

Anton, a junior e-business major, said last year’s auction raised $1,100 and that this year’s goal is to raise $2,500 to benefit the fraternity’s annual Island Party.

Bids on the 25 members start at $10. The men also come with pre-planned dates such as a Bon Jovi/Goo Goo Dolls concert, Disney’s Princesses on Ice or a hockey game.

— Nyshicka Jordany