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...First-Year Outdoor Program (FOP) believes in the power of the backpack...
...when 10 Harvard students are hiking through the New England backcountry, we need every bit of that space. So although I cannot take my pack to class unless I plan to camp out in the Science Center, there are other lessons that I—along with 350 other FOP leaders and first-years—did take back from the woods when we returned, smelly and rumpled, to fair Harvard...
...conspicuous absence of Elmer’s Glue and popsicle stick crafts, Harvard does bear some resemblance to summer camp. There’s the awful food, for one thing. FM asked seasoned veterans of the world of lanyards and macramé—camp counselors and FOP leaders—for their thoughts...
...free T-shirt,” writes Michal G. Cohen ’06 in an e-mail. “This year, I’ve made it my personal mission to acquire as many ‘free’ T-shirts as possible—from FOP, giving blood at MGH, one of the career fairs, tie-dye brunch, and most recently the house T-shirts.” She concludes, “If you look at it that way, Harvard is not only camp, it’s really camp times five because the possibilities...
...point at which camp and Harvard interesect most explicitly is the Freshman Outdoors Program (FOP). “FOP is definitely summer-campish,” FOP Leader Samuel B. Smolley ’05 says. FOPpers play games like the strangely named Ground Squirrel, which is “probably the only time you’ll hear a Harvard student say ‘shake that bushy tail.’ All dignity goes out the window and it’s a good thing.” FOP Leader Natasha M. Pasternack ’03 agrees...