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As is customary with any FWS, initial enrollment will be limited to eighteen students, despite more than thirty lonely men registering their interest in an anonymous survey more than two weeks ago. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Writing Department, selections for the class will be prioritized by college, with Hotelies being given first priority because \u201cstudents without real homework will tend to be successful in this seminar due to its focus on procrastination.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPHIL 1205: Intercultural Dialogue in the Yik Yak Age\u201d will be offered beginning in the spring 2015 semester.<\/p>\n<p>Other rumored additions to the FWS catalog include \u201cPSYCH 1721: Tinder and the Modern Relationship\u201d, and \u201cWRIT 1120: Intro to Homework for Hotel Management Majors.\u201d Both have been confirmed to be under development by university officials, but only PHIL 1205 has been confirmed to be offered for the upcoming spring semester.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/?p=259\" title=\"Yakarma Scores Spike in Anticipation of Yik Yak Writing Seminar\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Nlau-4b","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":246,"url":"https:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/?p=246","url_meta":{"origin":259,"position":0},"title":"Electrical Engineers Discover New Type of Battery","author":"The Cornell Lunatic","date":"February 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Ithaca, NY\u2014Cornell electrical engineering students, typically the most docile students on campus, have begun experiments with a new type of battery: physical battery. 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