Jay-Z 101: Inside The Georgetown Classroom

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It's not easy to convince college students to wake up early. And during those four glorious years brimming with books and booze, "early" often means anytime before noon. Not so at Georgetown, at least in Professor Michael Eric Dyson's newest class.

Looking around the classroom at half past nine in the morning during a recent visit (on a Monday, no less), it seemed that all 140 students who'd signed up for his latest...