Mick Foley To Appear As Guest Speaker At M.I.T.

From Sam Ford at mitcmsprowrestling.blogspot.com

Multiple-time New York Times bestselling author and World Wrestling Entertainment superstar Mick Foley will be appearing in a free public speaking event open to the public from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday on the campus of MIT.

Foley will be speaking in Building 54, Room 100, in an event called "The Real World's Faker than Wrestling: Former WWE Champion and Best-Selling Author Mick Foley," part of the Comparative Media Studies weekly colloquia series at MIT.

For more information and directions for Mick's appearance, contact the MIT Comparative Media Studies program at cms@mit.edu.

Foley will be on campus on Wednesday and Thursday to share his thoughts with a Comparative Media Studies class focused on pro wrestling in America.

The class, taught by Master's candidate Sam Ford, focuses on the history of American professional wrestling and its place in popular culture. Ford will graduate in June with a Master's degree from the Comparative Media Studies department. While at MIT, he has worked as a media analyst for the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium, located at http://www.convergenceculture.org/.

source: wrestlingworldnews.com