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Lights, Action … Auction!

The Women's Law Caucus hosts its Annual Auction February 8, 2008, 7 p.m., at the Bluebird. Bid on packages to support Bloomington's Middle Way House shelter and Indiana Law's own Protective Order Project.

Payment is due at the auction, at the payment table, with check or cash, please.

• Every Dollar you spend goes straight to the Middle Way House and to the Protective Order Project!
• Food: $1/ slice of pizza; $2/ burritos
• Drinks: $2 pints / $ 2 well drinks from 7-9:30

Live Auction

• The Ultimate Pursuit
  Package # 1 Spend an evening flaunting your skills in a game of trivial pursuit with Professor Heidt and Professor Bradley. They'll be providing snacks! Between six and eight (6-8) students can join.
  Max. Number of Students: 6-8
  Suggested Minimum bid: $250
• Luck of the Irish
  Package # 2 Join Professors Scanlan and Hughes for a night at the Irish Lion. Four (4) students can enjoy this package, which includes drinks, hors d'ouevres, dinner, and dessert. Students should plan to devote the entirety of a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday evening for this auction package.
  Max. Number of Students: 4
  Suggested Minimum bid: $100
• Bad Elmer's and Wicked Wii
  Package # 3 It's rock n' bowl night with the legal writing faculty: Professors Daghe, Goodman, Parrish, and Reichard. Enjoy microbrews and Wii bowling chez Reichard (a few blocks from the law school). Special guest appearance by DJ Sedge, who'll spin from his rare vinyl collection once everybody's arms get tired. Wear your baddest bowling shirt.
  Max. Number of Students: 8
  Suggested Minimum bid: $200
• Dinner and Wine for Five at Restaurant Tallent
  Package # 4 Donated by Dave & Kris Tallent and Pat Baude
  Bloomington's celebrated Chef Tallent will select and prepare a meal of the best seasonal and local ingredients and serve it to (5) five lucky people, with Professor Baude as host. The dinner will be accompanied by wines from Baude's private cellar.
  Max. Number of Students: 5
  Suggested Minimum bid: $300

• Pizza and A Pool Party at the Vid Pool
  Package # 5 Eat pizza and shoot pool with Professor Geyh. He'll treat five (5) students to dinner at Max's Place, followed by pocket billiards at the Video Saloon ("The Vid"). Competence at pool is unnecessary, and anyone the group determines to be a "shark" shall be subject to abuse with pool cues.
  Max. Number of Students: 5
  Suggested Minimum bid: $150
• Fine Dining at the Home of the Dean
  Package # 6 Join Dean Robel in her home for an evening of great food, wine and conversation.
  Max. Number of Students: 17!
  Suggested Minimum bid: $500
• A Trip to Asia
  Package # 7 Enjoy pan-Asian cuisine with Professors Jeannine Bell and Dawn Johnsen. Delight your palate with dishes that span the cuisine of several different countries including China, Thailand, and Japan. The scrumptious homemade potstickers and melt-in-your mouth "white-cooked" chicken are legendary. This dinner, for six (6) students, will include wines paired with several courses and will be served at Professor Johnsen's home.
  Max. Number of Students: 6
  Suggested Minimum bid: $175
• Adventures in Constitutionalism
  Package # 8 Join Professors David and Susan Williams for an evening of adventures in constitutionalism. Enjoy a feast of food from countries that are in need of the rule of law. Learn to speak a few words of Burmese. Ring an elephant bell. Learn to field-strip and (liability permitting) shoot an AK-47. And see slides of people who are struggling to bring constitutionalism to their countries and the places that they are active (but only if you want to). This package is for six (6) students. The package must be collected during the month of April.
  Max. Number of Students: 6
  Suggested Minimum bid: $350
• The Few, The Young, The Untenured
  Package # 9 Pay big bucks for this item and you'll get beer and dinner at the Irish Lion with Professors Fuentes-Rowher, Henderson, Mehrotra, Ochoa, Collins, and Madeira and Waters - those professors still young enough to remember what it was like to be sleep deprived, on call, on journal and on the job hunt - all at the same time as being too poor to drink anything more than water when eating out. This package is for up to seven students.
  Max. Number of Students: 7
  Last year's bid: $400
  Suggested Minimum bid: $250
• Laissez les bon temps rouler!
  Package # 10 Celebrate in the style of Mardi Gras with Nikki Rolf, Events Coordinator, and Dani Weatherford, Director of Recruitment, and experience authentic New Orleans cuisine...jambalaya, Haydel's Bakery King Cafe and Pat O'Briens' Hurricanes straight from Bourbon Street. Eight students (including designated driver) will have the chance to fight for the baby (inside the King Cake) and "let the good times roll!" Special Guest appearances by Dean Dennis Long.
  Max. Number of Students: 8
  Suggested Minimum bid: $100
• World Series of Poker
  Package # 11 Six (6) students will have the opportunity to see if you can bluff Professor Shreve in a poker game at his lovely home. Refreshments AND prizes will be provided. BYO Sunglasses.
  Max. Number of Students: 6
  Suggested Minimum bid: $400
• The Professors v. The Students:
  B-Ball Tournament at Assembly Hall Package # 12 Six lucky teams of (8) students will have the opportunity of a lifetime…to play basketball on the floor of Assembly Hall**! The highest bidding team is guaranteed one game against a Dream Team of professors, the remaining five teams will duke it out for their chance to battle The Professors. The last student team standing will also receive a round of drinks at Yogi's after the big game. Minimum bid of $225 per team is required.
  ** Subject to the new coach's Gym-Schedule
  Max. Number of Students: 6 teams of 8 students
  Suggested Minimum bid: $225 per team
• Pizza Pie, Bethel Style
  Package # 13 This is your once-in-a-lifetime chance to have pizza with Professor Bethel. Professor Bethel will be making amazing pizza at his home for eight (8) students. He will provide beer, wine, and soft drinks. One of you needs to stay sober for the drive home.
  Max. Number of Students: 8
  Suggested Minimum bid: $200
• Go Bowling with 2 Law Professors--One of Whom Actually Knows How to Bowl
  Package # 14 Professors Orenstein and Buxbaum invite you to join them for 2 games, drinks and snacks at the IU Lanes. Attractive Footwear included, unless you own your own, like one unnamed Dean.
  Max. Number of Students: 6
  Suggested Minimum bid: $100
• Hoosier Hysteria
  Package # 15 NCAA Semi-Finals set the scene on Saturday, April 5, beginning at 5 p.m., for a party party with soda, beer, snacks, and supper given by Professor Conkle and Dean Fromm. Come cheer your favorite team (Indiana, we hope) to victory while partaking of refreshments and assorted evaluations of team play provided by your hosts. As a bonus, putting contests, complete with accompanying polkas and zydeco music, will occur during breaks in the action-- or not:) You choose!
  Max. Number of Students: 7
  Suggested Minimum bid: $300
• A Night at Nick's
  Package # 16 A night at the favorite haunt of generations of law students - Nick's English Hut. Join Professor Gjerdingen for dinner and other delights at Nick's. Upstairs, downstairs, dinner, snacks, burgers, stroms, and anything else your legal heart desires. We go early and stay late. Package is for five students, but one student must stay sober as a Designated Driver
  Max. Number of Students: 5
  Suggested Minimum bid: $175

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Silent Auction
Wine Fridge Raffle

The "Harmony" wine fridge of your dreams:
This is a luxury item that you will be able to enjoy for a lifetime. Stock this personal wine cellar by Marvel© with your favorite bottles of wines! Retails for $2,000.

• 1 ticket for $6, 2 tickets for $10 or 5 tickets for $20
• Buy tickets throughout the night and then watch for the raffle as the final even of the evening

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Silent Auction
Round 1: 7:00 to 8:15 pm

1. DINNER AND CONCERT
   Dinner for 2 at Siam House ($35) and 2 tickets to see "Might be Giants" at the Bluebird. Tickets for February 28, 2008.
   Start bid @ $50… or buy now for $80
2. BIG NIGHT OUT
   Start the night off right with a dozen roses from Mary M's, followed by dinner at Tutto Bene. Then enjoy a lovely, romantic stay at Grant Street Inn followed by complimentary breakfast in the morning.
   Start bid @ $100… or buy it now for $200
3. SPA & LUNCH DAY FOR 2
   You and friend can enjoy a massage and manicure! Enjoy a 60-minute massage at Therapeutic Massage, followed by a manicure at Nailtique. Then treat yourselves to lunch at McCallisters!
   Start bid @ $100… or buy it now $150
4. PUT ME IN THE COACH STORE...I'M READY TO SHOP!
   Their #1 selling Coach bag! Retails for $348
   Start bidding at $250… or buy now for $350
5. PRETTY LITTLE THINGS
   Cha-Cha gift card for $25 and Classic "C" Coach wristlet (if you like this package, you might also like the matching purse in package #4!).
   Start bidding $60… or buy now for $100
6. JUNK FOOD JUNKIE
   Food on the run? Grab some Fazoli's (Dinner for 4), Steak N' Shake (Free double Steak Burger and Milkshake), Auntie Anne's Pretzels (5 Pretzeles), Rally's (5 combo meals), Chic-fil-A (5 chicken sandwiches), Golden Corral (2 Buffet Dinners), McCallister's (2 free lunch or dinners).
   Start bid @ $25… buy it for $50
7. ST. ELMO DINNER
   Gift Certificate for $100 at St. Elmo Steakhouse, a famous establishment that's over a 100 years old (located in Indianapolis).
   Start bid @ $75… or buy now for $120
8. BOWLIN' AND BLOOMIN' ONIONS
   For you and five friends… 6 free Bloomin' Onions followed by 6 free games of bowling at Suburban Lanes.
   Start bid @ $25… or buy now for $50
9. LOVE TO EAT OUT?
   Enjoy a variety of local Bloomington restaurant gift certificates: Irish Lion ($45), Runcible Spoon ($20) and Scholars Inn (dinner for 2).
   Start bid @ $75… or buy it now for $125
10. PIZZA, PIZZA, PIZZA!
    You decide who serves the best pizza in Bloomington: try Aver's Gourmet Pizza (1 large pizza), Mother Bear's Pizza (1 large pizza), Cafe Pizzeria (4 free 7-inch pizzas), Bucetto's Pizza ($15 gift card), Trulli Flatbread ($25).
    Start bid @ $60… or buy it now for $100.
11. CAFFEINE BUZZ!
    Enjoy novelty Starbucks Coffee (2 new flavors) in your new Starbucks mugs (set of 4)!
    Start bid @ $35… or buy it now for $50
12. MOVING OUT AFTER YOU TAKE THE BAR?
    Order your favorite Mother Bear's Pizza one more time; then kick back to enjoy your pizza and let Bryan Cleaning Service clean your apartment for 3 hours ($100 value) … that way your landlord will give your deposit back!
    Start bid at $75… or buy now for $125
13. YOU'RE SO DEBONAIR!
    Go to Sullivan's Mens Clothing with this $50 gift card... if your new purchase needs alterations, make a stop at the Tailored Fit ($25). When you're ready to go, take your lovely lady out for dinner at le Petit Cafe. She'll be so impressed!
    Start bid @ $75… or buy for $100
14. CATERED DINNER FOR 4
    Get this $50 gift certificate to Bloomingfoods, and take Slow Food Chef Alan Simmerman along with you to grocery shop. Then enjoy a delectable meal prepared by Chef Simmerman! Four people can enjoy this savory evening!
    Start bid @ $125… or buy it now for $200
15. DINNER & A MOVIE
    Dinner for 2 at Smokin' Jacks Rib Shack ($30 value) and 2 tickets to see a movie at Kerasotes Theater.
    Start bid @ $30… or buy it now $50
16. SHREVE SEATING CHARTS - 2L AND 3L
    You can forever remember your first days of law school… and how far you have come since then. Professor Shreve's Civil Procedure seating charts can be memorialized in your heart and on your wall forever!
    Start bid @ $100 each

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Silent Auction
Round II: 8:15 - 9:15 pm

17. VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE
    Whether you're in a monogamous relationship or prefer to date around, this package can spice up any relationship. She'll always be guessing… Try 4 different colognes for 4 different dates. Colognes from Macy's include: Valentino, Burberry, Giorgio Armani, and Escada. Dinner dates include gift certificates to: Runcible Spoon ($20) Irisih Lion ($15) Bucceto's Pizza ($15) and Smokin' Jack's Rib Shack ($20).
    Starting bid @ $150… or buy it now for $250
18. CREDIT TOWARD YOUR BURNHAM RENTAL
    Instead of paying Burnham $250 toward your rent, give it to the Middle Way House instead! This gift certificate is a $250 credit to one month of rent at any Burnham Rental.
    Start bidding @ $250
19. SPOIL YOURSELF- SPA DAY FOR 1
    Haircut and color at Boomerang Hair, followed by a manicure at Nailtique. After you've been pampered, enjoy your new Oscar de La Renta Perfume.
    Start bid @ $80… or buy it now for $120
20. DINNER AND COUNTRY CONCERT
    Dinner for 2 at Texas Road House ($30) and tickets to see Phil Vassar at the Bluebird. Tickets for February 21, 2008.
    Start bid @ $50… or buy now for $80
21. GOLFER'S DREAM
    Brand new Callaway 5 Wood Driver (retails at $200) and 24 golf balls.
    Starting bid @ $150… or buy now for $250
22. FOR YOUR SOFTER SIDE
    Enjoy a knitting class at Yarns Unlimited. Take a trip to the Hallmark store for a soothing candle or fun decoration, and treat yourself to this platinum plated snowflake necklace from Gordon's Jewelry.
    Start bid @ $50… or buy it now for $80
23. DINNER AND CONCERT
    Dinner at Janko's Little Zagreb's for 2 ($30) and tickets to see "Slightly Stoopid" at the Bluebird. Tickets for March 2, 2008.
    Start bid @ $50… or buy now for $80
24. THE CLOSEST PARKING PASS … EVEN PROFESSORS WILL BE JEALOUS!
    Park in the new Henderson Parking lot (across the street from the law school) for any 20 days during the rest of the Spring 2008 Semester.
    Start bid @ $100… or buy it now for $200
25. OLIVER WINERY GIFT BASKET
    Enjoy this Oliver Winery gift basket with a little bit of sweet and savory, and of course 2 bottles of wine!
    Start bid @ $30… or buy it now for $70
26. DINNER AND NEW ORLEANS JAZZ ORCHESTRA
    On Saturday, April 26, you and a guest can see the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra at the IU Auditorium after enjoying dinner together at Limestone Grill (2 dinners).
    Start bid @ $60… or buy it now for $100
27. SMARTY PANTS
    Go find your favorite books with this $25 gift certificate to Caveat Emptor and then keep them in your trendy, recycled leather bag from Relish (bag retails for $65).
    Start bid @ $50… or buy it now for $100
28. IT'S ALL FUN AND GAMES
    Pick up a Stake 'N Shake "Takeahomeasack" for you and friends, then kick back to play fun board game "Hollywood Shuffle" from Gamer Reserve
    Start bid @ $35... or buy it now for $50
29. GUYS…GET THIS FOR YOUR LOVELY VALENTINE—SHE'LL LOVE YOU (& THIS) FOR SURE!
    Let her pick any spa service from Mira Salon ($65 value) and then use this Roger & Holland Jewelry Gift Certificate to find the perfect jewelry for your valentine.
    Start bid @ $75… or buy it now for $100
30. BLOOMINGTON BLING
    Platinum plated sterling silver ring from Gordon's Jewelry with genuine 7.5 mm button pearl… size 7 ring. Also, take any jewelry into Gordon's for a deep cleaning ($15 value each).
    Start bid @ $70… or buy now for $120
31. SHOP AROUND TOWN
    $25 gift certificate to trendy store Athena, $20 gift certificate for Alterations from Sew & So, $20 at Marsh, throw your groceries in your canvas bag from Howard's Bookstore. Also enjoy 2 free lunches or dinners at McCallister's and spend $25 to Plato's Closet.
    Start bid @ $50… or buy it now for $100

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