"We're still turning people away, so we need to raise as much money as possible," said Madeline C. Pill, a masters degree candidate and one of the 18 student organizers for the Summer Internship Fund.
The Fund gets its auction items from a variety of sources.
"We tap into networks," Pill said. "We pull in everyone we know and ask them to come up with things."
Armini said the Fund has done well working its connections. For example, one student has a friend who works for a resort company, so he helped arrange a week vacation at the Enchanted Garden Resort and Spa in Jamaica.
One of the auction's biggest coups this year is the walk-on role on "The West Wing," which Alumni and Development Programs Director Curtis Nelson was able to procure from her future brother-in-law, Paul S. Redford, who is an executive story editor for the television program.
"The big perk would be free donuts. We can't get them a line because of union rules," he said.
But even with these restrictions, Redford said the part is worth a bid.
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