College credits for attending the Final Four
Some students at Lynn University in South Florida might skip classes this week to attend college basketball's Final Four, though at least a dozen have managed to score class credits out of the trip.
The trip cost $3,250 per student. The total covered the cost of the
class, a hotel room for six nights, food, roundtrip airline tickets,
two rental minivans, a Georgia Tech baseball game and Thrashers hockey
game, along with the Final Four and championship games at the Georgia
Dome.
The students are sports management majors at Lynn University in South Florida. As part of a course titled "The Final Four Experience," they will be traveling with a couple of professors to Atlanta to get a firsthand look at what goes into the major sporting event.And get this, each student gets three credits for the excursion.
[AP]
College is tough these days.
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