The American Institute for Architecture Students will have its annual date auction at 5 p.m. in the Architecture Building Room 100.
The event is open to the general public.
Proceeds will go toward a special AIAS project, redesigning of the home of a disabled person.
Ball State University's AIAS chapter applied for the project, Freedom of Design, and is one of several schools testing out the project before it is opened up to all schools, Hobble said.
"We find a family or a person who has some sort of handicap and doesn't have a lot of money and make their home more accessible to them," Hobble said. "We have ideas on what we want to do, and we have gotten those developed, and now we just need funding."
The cost of the project is not set yet, she said. But the date auction, as one of the largest fundraisers for AIAS, should significantly help provide money for the improvements.
Twenty people signed up to be bid on at the auction. Bidding begins at $1, but the lowest amount Hobble said she remembers anyone being bought for last year was $4.
"The person being bid on comes with a gift certificate, maybe tickets to the movie theater, gift certificates to a restaurant, so they are actually benefiting the community as well," Hobble said.
All of the people being bid on are students involved with the architecture program. While some are doing this for the first time, others like Bliss Young participate every year.
"It's so much fun to participate," she said. "It's almost like you get to show yourself off. You are amongst a bunch of people up there for a good cause and you feel good about what you are doing."
This will be Young's third and final year in the date auction, as she will be in Europe during next year's auction. Though she is disappointed, she said this would be a hysterical show.
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