Ball State did some spring cleaning Saturday, selling anything from couches to school supplies at an auction.
The university sold supplies in storage that it no longer needed at a warehouse on Blaine Street.
Roger Hassenzahl, director of Purchasing Services, said it has been about a year since the university held an auction, and the “excess material” in the storage unit is no longer useful to Ball State.
“When it sits stagnant it is doing us no good ... It is better to get the cash flow back into the circulation of the university, for other new products that the university needs and also at the same time ... it gives the pubic an opportunity to get some good items at a good price,” Hassenzahl said.
Tom Holden came all the way from Chicago to attend his first Ball State auction with his sister Irene Helton.
Helton called Holden after she read about the auction in the newspaper in Greenfield, Ind. Holden said they were looking for folding chairs and place settings for his sister’s annual barn party.
Terry Heifetz, a telecommunications instructor, came to the auction with a mission: to buy five projectors for five professors who have been visiting Ball State from Afghanistan since January.
The four journalism professors and one English professor leave next month, and Heifetz wanted to ship their goodbye present to Kabul.
“They don’t have a lot in their classrooms there as far as technology goes,” Heifetz said. “The projectors are here so it’s just going to be a matter of if I can win them, which I’m not sure I will because there are a lot of people here.”
Heifetz didn’t end up having the winning bid.
Other than the projectors, items sold included chairs, sinks and other furniture.
