I'm well on my way to that PhD

Looks like ACC history is now a college course. Excerpt:

In a state obsessed with ACC basketball — and for a teacher who claims to have attended about 400 league games — the mere existence of such a class is as sweet as a J.J. Redick jump shot.

"It's almost like it's a part of your childhood that you never lose," Lawing said. "You grow up with this intense rooting interest as a child, and you follow it through to adulthood. And it's a way you kind of connect with your childhood."

"It's a part of your whole life, and you never really outgrow it," he added. "And to some extent, you don't want to outgrow it because you can always be a kid when you go to a basketball game and scream."

For Lawing, who has taught at Forsyth Tech for about 20 years, the course offers a break from his Western civilization classes. This eight-week class is strictly for fun and doesn't have an official title. And unlike Jim Harrick Jr.'s infamous class at Georgia a few years ago, where students were asked on the final exam how many points a 3-point shot is worth, this is a noncredit course designed as a community service program.

The 23 enrolled students need attend only six of the eight classes — "or be a Wake Forest fan," Lawing says — to earn a satisfactory grade.

Could have been worse, I suppose. He might have required his students to like UNC.

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1 Forsyth Tech is a community college in Winston-Salem, no wonder you get credit for being a Wake fan

Posted by: caltechgirl at February 10, 2005 07:45 PM (bwprt)

2 Since it's in Winston Salem, he should have required them to eat Krispy Kreme donuts every day.

Posted by: physics geek at February 11, 2005 01:56 PM (Xvrs7)

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