{"id":106495,"date":"2015-11-20T11:37:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T16:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=104910"},"modified":"2015-12-10T16:07:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T21:07:53","slug":"pilg-auction-crowd-bids-to-raise-funds-in-the-public-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2015\/11\/pilg-auction-crowd-bids-to-raise-funds-in-the-public-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"PILG Auction Crowd Bids to Raise Funds in the Public Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Interest Law Group\u2019s 23rd Annual Auction on Nov. 13 raised more than $28,000 from an enthusiastic crowd that filled the Reading Room in William F. Starr Hall and bought everything on offer.<\/p>\n<p>The most sought-after items were the three Barbri Bar Review Course scholarships, which raised a total of $6,700. Various vacation trips also proved popular, with Professor James Stark\u2019s generous donation of a vacation in Mexico selling for $1,300, and other adventures also greatly contributing to the total.<\/p>\n<p>As always, students were eager to compete for chances to socialize with the faculty. A bidding war arose over an offer from Professors Willajeanne McLean and Susan Schmeiser to visit a student\u2019s home, cook dinner for four and provide wine. Many bidders were also keen to face Professor Richard Pomp in the boxing ring. A bowling excursion with Professor Douglas Spencer proved extremely popular, selling for $230.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.uconn.edu\/about\/press-room\/pilg-auction-crowd-bids-raise-funds-public-interest\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading on the UConn School of Law website . . .<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Interest Law Group\u2019s 23rd Annual Auction on Nov. 13 raised more than $28,000 from an enthusiastic crowd that filled the Reading Room in William F. Starr Hall and bought everything on offer. The most sought-after items were the three Barbri Bar Review Course scholarships, which raised a total of $6,700. Various vacation trips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":106981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1857],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1856],"class_list":["post-106495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 13:09:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/106981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106495"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=106495"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=106495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}