Word: fops
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Beth Bellman will step down from her post as director of the First-Year Outdoor Program (FOP) this summer, ending a five-year tenure that saw the program climb out of debt...
Since much of the planning for the FOP trips occurs over the summer, Bellman's departure--to pursue a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Iowa--leaves the program without a leader during a crucial time, Nathans said...
...FOP director is responsible for arranging the details of the trips over the summer, from ordering food and equipment to scheduling buses, according to Abigail A. Donaldson '00, a member of the FOP steering committee...
...FOP leader Kristin A. Bevington `01 says, "It would be cool if you were trying to get into witchcraft or something. I mean, don't witchcraft people hunt for herbs and mushrooms and stuff?" Notwithstanding our general ignorance concerning fungi, a secret culture of mushroom afficionados quietly exists in America, stalking the forest floor in search of these rare delicacies...
Hayden F. Hirschfeld `99, also a FOP leader, is a folklore and mythology concentrator writing his thesis on a mushroom. He explains that the very fact that people are even interested in mushrooms intrigues him. "This is a culture that is `fungaphobic' and most people believe that if you go out in the forest and eat a mushroom, you'll die," he notes, adding that "despite that, people are still into them...