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...Freshman Outdoor Program (FOP) steering committee interviewed 20 candidates in its search for the rare administrator-fisherman-rock climber to lead the ADJ organization...
...director, Bell will oversee the week-long expeditions of 400 first-years and 40 leaders into the New England wilderness. His experience at the Association for Experiential Education will come in handy as the FOP program begins its own accreditation process, said Dean of Freshman Elizabeth Studley Nathans...
...middle of last spring's hectic reading period and exams, FOP director Beth Bellman left Harvard for Iowa to pursue a Ph.D. in social psychology. The FOP student steering committee and the Freshman's Dean Office scrambled to locate a replacement...
...love being a college student. Once a week, though, it's wonderful to get away from the very real horrors associated with my Ec 10 problem set and take a flight of fancy that includes flukemen, flesh-eating viruses and disastrous trips into the woods (kind of like FOP). It may be an escapist principle, but I think the feeling is universal. Alien invasions, ghosts, monsters, things that go bump in the night--these concepts are intrinsic to human nature. Every civilization throughout history has incorporated some sort of variation on the theme into their cultural folklore. The Greeks...
...often, I've had the experience of finding that a certain group dynamic cannot be recreated out of context: that my FOP group never felt the same at "reunions" as it did in the woods, that the people who'd felt like soulmates at summer camp had less to say to each other when united at a pizza place in October. This doesn't undermine the intensity and reality of those connections in the moment--in a way it makes them and their moment more wonderfully singular--but it does provide a sobering glimpse of the great big truth that...