The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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michigan football never thought I'd be interested in. But I had a great professor, and the book introduced some ideas. And so I started taking more and more political science classes." Avery later picked up a second major, African-American studies. "It kind of happened the same way — I took a class, and was immediately interested in the material," Avery said. "And it was very nice to learn about the history of AfricanAmericans, and Africa and countries there. It was a class about AfricanAmericans in America. I liked it, because it was contemporary and issues that are being dealt with today. It was something you could go home and talk to your parents about, and they could relate to it. "Right now, I'm in a class about art, paintings, music and things like that that have a historical context in the African-American community. We recently talked about the women's suffrage movement and how everything is so interwoven in history. It's Avery, who is double majoring in political sci- a very engaging class." Avery finished his political science ence and African-American studies, plans on going to law school after his football career degree last semester and will be done with his second major in time is over. photo by lon horwedel to graduate with his classmates. He's going to work out for NFL teams this winter, hoping to either get drafted or be picked up as a free agent. But he's already planning ahead to his post-football life. "I plan on going to law school," Avery said. "Depending on how the NFL works out, I plan on taking a year off. Then I can really study and get into the LSAT, get my score as high as I can. From there, I'm not sure. I don't know if I want to go into government or what, but I'm going to keep an open mind about opportunities after school. "Michigan has a great law school, but I haven't thought about it a lot. It will come down to where I want to live. A lot of times, when you leave law school, you stay around that area, so I'm trying to sort of decide where I want to live when I get older."