Great stuff at a great price

By Jennifer Palmberg
The Collegian

Every year people leave stuff on campus such as books, binders, clothes, accessories, electronics, scooters and even bicycles.

Any item found left behind gets turned in to the lost and found where it sits for a year or until someone claims it. After a year the items are donated to the Service for Students with Disabilities office, which teams up with campus police, to sell at auction.

This year’s Annual Bike Auction and Lost and Found Sale will be held today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the speaker’s platform in the Free Speech Area. Bikes will be auctioned beginning at noon, but all other items will be sold throughout the event.

“If you’ve left it, they’ve got it,” said Carole Snee, director of Services for Students with Disabilities. “Usually the items are sold at a reasonable rate at all proceeds go to our department, which uses it to buy equipment for our Adoptive Computer Lab in the disabilities center.

“It usually takes two or three years of saving proceeds before we can afford some of this eqipment.”

In the past the auction has raised between $450 and $1,000 each year for the center. All items left over are donated to charity.

Snee said bicycles prices range from $5 all the way to $100 each depending on the quality of the bike.

She said they even have a man from the Plant Operations department who, for the past few years, has purchased a couple of the lower-end bikes and fixed them up to donate to an orphanage in Mexico.

The auction is open to all Fresno State students, staff, faculty and administrators.

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