the-wire-harvardSPOILER: The students from Season 4 go to Harvard and everything works out just fine. No problems for them!

As if there weren’t enough reasons to dislike Harvard, the college will offer a class next year that gives students the opportunity to study “The Wire” (aka the best television show ever created). So if you’ve got some good SAT scores and $50,000 a year to spend on education, you can watch “The Wire” for college credit. From the Crimson:

At a panel last night, stars of the HBO hit series joined Harvard professors in discussing the applications of the show—which depicts the struggles of urban life in Baltimore—in understanding and combating real urban social issues.

“‘The Wire’ has done more to enhance our understanding of the systemic urban inequality that constrains the lives of the poor than any published study” Sociology Professor William J. Wilson said.

African American studies chair Professor Evelyn B. Higginbotham said that there would be a new course in which Wilson will use “The Wire” as a case study for poverty in America.

Wait, can I rewind that? “Professor Evelyn B. Higginbotham”? That’s not even a real name. That’s the kind of name I make up for someone who’s a professor at Harvard. Like Dean Cornelius Q. Vanderschwartz, or Associate Professor Gloria-Lynn von Kamp-Smythe, or Tweedy McElbowpatches. You know, just once I want the African American studies chair to be named LaTonya.