Finder's Keepers...

UNC cafeteria workers and campus custodians surround the door to Room 3203, eager to get in.

"Do you still have that iPod from last September?" one of them asks. "I know it's in there because I'm the one who turned it in."

That was one year ago. And yes, they still had the iPod.

The UNC service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega, hosts the Lost and Found Sale every semester. This year, APO is holding the free event from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today in  Room 3203 of the Student Union.

The lost and found desk is located at the bottom of the union, where the bowling alley was once lodged. APO volunteers man the desk every day of the week.

The fraternity sells the collection of items that have been turned in to the campus lost and found the previous semester if attempts to return the items to their owner have been unsuccessful. 

"We get about 10 to 15 items in each day," said Thomas Ferguson, APO's Lost and Found chair. "We log the items in a spreadsheet so if someone contacts us about losing something, we know immediately whether we have it or not."

Last year, the fraternity made hundreds from the sale. The profit from the sale goes into their Campus Chest fund, a cache the fraternity adds to over the semester. The money is then doled out to various charities in the community.

Ferguson said the usual inventory consists of water bottles, sunglasses, textbooks, jewelry, keys (which are not sold), clothes and assorted electronics.

So come out and sort through strangers' forgotten stuff. You never know what you might find — literally.