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Cabot Auction Draws Crowds With 'Lambing'

Mueller was unavailable for comment after the event.

The House also auctioned of the rights to lamb a resident next year. Though the bidding started at $50, it soon escalated into a battle between two warring factions.

Eventually a group of women dropped $266 for the privilege of wiping down a half-naked Wei Zhou '01 with strips of raw lamb at next year's event.

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"They'll look back on [the amount] and shoot themselves," Weitzel taunted through the mike. "It's like a tattoo."

Last year's lambing has become part of House legend. Residents recalled that lambing victim Mike Bush '99 wore only a jockstrap while receiving a treatment that he apparently enjoyed.

"It is the meaning of Cabot house, the coolest house, second only to sports," said Azunna E. O. Anyanwu '00-01. A date with Anyanwu was sold for $35.

Even House Master James H. Ware got into the action, bidding $11 for a belly dance to great applause.

A man billed simply as "Steve the Chem Tutor," apparently well-known in Cabot for his Chemistry tutoring, donated a liquid nitrogen demonstration had been donated by And not to be ignored was a "Billy Weitzel game-worn Cabot Strauss Cup jersey."

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