Honorary dates to be inflicted
Kat Timpf
Issue date: 2/28/08 Section: News
Last Friday, the students of the Eta Sigma Phi classics honorary held their annual Date Infliction Auction, in which people buy members of the honorary to "inflict" them on someone else.
Some of those auctioned said they were nervous.
"I was worried that no one was going to buy me, but it ended up going well and people started to get competitive," senior Tiffany Niebuhr said.
Others were not sure what to think.
"The weird thing about it was it was a date infliction auction, so I didn't know if it was worse to not get bid on or to get bid on a lot," sophomore Mary Beth Banovetz said.
The members of the honorary will join their dates at the April 5 Cheese Ball, a party Niebuhr described as a "kind of a nerdy party for classics geeks." This year's theme is "Big Hair, Bad '80s."
"I don't think you're supposed to actually try to be a bad date," Banovetz said. "I think we're supposed to just be naturally bad dates."
The auction raised $406, which will fund the honorary's trip to a convention in March.
"Chapters all across America come together and have contests and classics games and some papers are read," Niebuhr said of the convention.
Hillsdale College Collegian 2008
Some of those auctioned said they were nervous.
"I was worried that no one was going to buy me, but it ended up going well and people started to get competitive," senior Tiffany Niebuhr said.
Others were not sure what to think.
"The weird thing about it was it was a date infliction auction, so I didn't know if it was worse to not get bid on or to get bid on a lot," sophomore Mary Beth Banovetz said.
The members of the honorary will join their dates at the April 5 Cheese Ball, a party Niebuhr described as a "kind of a nerdy party for classics geeks." This year's theme is "Big Hair, Bad '80s."
"I don't think you're supposed to actually try to be a bad date," Banovetz said. "I think we're supposed to just be naturally bad dates."
The auction raised $406, which will fund the honorary's trip to a convention in March.
"Chapters all across America come together and have contests and classics games and some papers are read," Niebuhr said of the convention.
Hillsdale College Collegian 2008
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