| RHA auctions 'legal prostitutes'
After a two-month delay, students finally got to put up their hard-earned money for a hard-working man or woman at the Residential Housing Association's Date Auction.
After all, the auction was advertised on Facebook as "the closest thing to legal prostitution."
The auction took place April 10 in the University Center Sunnen Lounge. Emcee for the night, Dee Goines, a junior speech communications major, auctioned off 32 dates, not including himself. Junior Benny Roberts, a sociology major, made the highest bid of the night, $191.75, for his girlfriend, freshman Nadia Battle, a broadcast journalism major. Ironically, Roberts went for the smallest amount of money - one cent. Roberts and Goines said they wanted to show a reverse courtesy for Battle going for the highest bid.
Sega taking Football Manager MMO, beta next month
Sega has announced the future release of Football Manager Live, a brand new massively multiplayer online game from Sports Interactive. Scheduled for release in Autumn 2008, Football Manager Live has its roots set in the best-selling and award-winning Football Manager series, but has been designed specifically as a massively multiplayer online game.
Sega says Football Manager Live is a brand new concept in football management and allows players to build a club from scratch to compete against friends and rivals online for the ultimate in Football Manager bragging rights. "It's the definitive test of football management skills, allowing you to set-up mini-leagues amongst your friends, bid in player auctions and compete in live matches 24 hours a day, 365 days a year." Matches take place in real-time with a range of tactical options for managers to control as they follow all the action via the realistic 2D match engine.
Saudi regulator qualifies 3 parties for fixed licence bids
The Saudi Arabian regulator, the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC), has concluded the evaluation of all applicants wanting to bid for a fixed services licence, which were submitted in February. The qualified applicants are: the Optical Communication Company Consortium (comprising MCI International and Verizon), the Al-Mutakamilah Consortioum (led by PCCW), and the Atheeb Consortioum (led by Batelco). The applicants have already submitted bids which will be evaluated on 21 April. Print | Comment | Mail
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Publishers in bidding war over Agassi's memoir
To be filed under the rich getting richer: the current bidding war among book publishers over a memoir from retired tennis star Andre Agassi. Crains' New York Business Web site reported Friday that bids had reached $5.35 million. No doubt he needs it, and just the chapter on his romance with Brooke Shields will be worth it. .
Slater council picks date for next McQueen day
Slater Mayor Stephen Allegri announced the Steve McQueen Day committee had chosen March 23 as the date for the next Steve McQueen Day celebration, during the council's regular meeting at Slater City Hall on Tuesday, April 17. Allegri said that the event should become self-supporting financially. "The city financed it one time," Allegri said. "Now we're looking at making it self-supporting. I think it's real important to point out no events would have taken place if the city hadn't put seed money in them. Now they are self-supporting." In other business, re-elected council members Terry Jordan, Ron Monnig and Brownell Bryant were sworn in. Bryant was then voted mayor pro tem of the council. The council then discussed the open position for the unoccupied Ward 1 council seat.
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