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- From: waltoml@wkuvx1.bitnet
- Newsgroups: rec.scouting
- Subject: Re: Project C.O.P.E.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.023124.4014@wkuvx1.bitnet>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 02:31:24 CST
- References: <1992Nov16.030302.23254@umr.edu> <Bxt0Dw.DLH@cs.vu.nl>
- Summary: Response to inquiry about Project COPE and an explaination for those no
- Keywords: Ropes, COPE, safety
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
- Lines: 55
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- In article <Bxt0Dw.DLH@cs.vu.nl>, wlieftin@cs.vu.nl (Liefting W) writes:
- > rascherm@mcs213a.cs.umr.edu (Robert L Aschermann) writes:
- >
- >>I am heavily involved with Project C.O.P.E. at Camp Geiger, St. Joseph, MO.
- >>I am extremely interested in talking to others involved in C.O.P.E.
- >>Camp Geiger was the home of the first BSA C.O.P.E. course 10 years ago.
- >>I would like to find out what has happened to the program since then, and how
- >>it has changed.
- >
- > One question: Next time you post such an article, will you
- > 1. Be more clear, or
- > 2. Limit you article to the american net.
- >
- > There's hundreds of readers outside america who will not understand a bit of
- > this, including myself.
-
- Wouter:
- COPE is something that is unique to American Boy Scouting programs.
- Sorry if you don't understand it, but the person posting it had no
- idea that COPE was only used in the US Scouting Program.
-
- PROJECT COPE: Challenging Outdoor Physical Encounters (I am sure)...a
- set of obsticles designed to enhance patrol unity and leadership
- abilities of the patrol, the basis for Scouting. It is conducted
- using ropes and other natural (as much as possible) "events" strewn
- out in a large area, typically at Boy Scout Summer Camps and the
- regional Outdoor Adventure Bases. In order to have a course at your
- Summer Camp, it must be built to an exacting National standard and
- there must be at least two COPE Instructors, certified by the Boy
- Scouts of America through it's National Camping School. There should
- be a professional executive also certified to conduct the course, also
- by attending the COPE Course Instructor course at NCS.
-
- COPE Courses are a lot of fun for the kids involved..a pain in the
- butt end for the Councils and the professional staffs. They are very
- dangerous courses and extreme stupidity resulting in several major
- injuries in several courses have made the BSA to rethink the COPE
- course' worth in the past five years. Yet, the number of Councils
- that have a course keeps going up because of the "Smith and Jones"
- factor (council Smith has one, so we in Council Jones must have one
- and a high ropes course at that...).
-
- COPE Directors that are certified are in *high demand* because the
- course carries with it more stress than the other major jobs at camp.
- As a result, lots of directors and staff members "get lost" soon after
- the summer season is over.
-
- That's all I know....
-
- Settummanque!
-
-
- >
- > Wouter Liefting
- > wlieftin@cs.vu.nl
-