Pep students win big on ‘The Price is Right’
If anyone was watching “The Price is Right” Wednesday, they could not help but see sophomore Molly Oster and be proud that yet another Pepperdine student made it on the show.
On the game show, which was taped last November, Oster won a spa, a washer and dryer, a bamboo dining set and an exercise bike. The “best prize of all,” however, was a SittingPrettyKitty.com six-foot cat tree tower, Oster said.
Oster had all the prizes shipped to her home in Memphis, Tenn. She has not received them yet, but when she does she is going to try and sell them on eBay, Oster said.
“My mom had the entire city of Memphis watching on Wednesday,” Oster said. “She was more excited than I was.”
Although Oster was thrilled to win some great prizes, she said she didn’t go into the show expecting more than an entertaining experience.
“I’m not one of those hard core ‘The Price is Right’ people, so I felt kind of bad when they picked me,” Oster said.
“It ended up being a lot of fun,” she continued, but said she felt awful when she overbid for a trip to San Francisco, London and Sydney, Australia, by just $78.
Just a few weeks earlier freshman Laura Varney also got a chance to see Bob Barker up close. The November taping aired Jan. 8. Varney went with 24 other students for a mixer with her hall, Sigma, and the boys’ hall down the street, Fifield.
“Bob Barker looked bad,” Varney said. “He looked old, had tons of makeup on, and had just had some sort of hair implant surgery.”
Varney was the only one chosen from her group and won two patio heaters and a $700 hammock. She said she hopes they will give her gift certificates to the company that makes the products because she does not know what to do with heaters they use in restaurants.
Varney’s Student Advisor, junior Corrie Zacharia, helped plan the mixer. The two halls met the night before the event and had a midnight strategy session, planning what they were going to wear and what they were going to say in their interviews before being allowed to go to the taping. Zacharia said her “lifelong dream” to be on the show had been fulfilled her freshman year when she won a 2001 Chevy Cavalier.
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January 16, 2003