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Forget the academics Learning the practical side of love By Eric; Bottjer Of the Kmerald Brian Nelson-Munson says loving is easy. “Almost everything we do in one way or another revolves around love,” says the Methodist pastor who has been involved in campus ministry for the past five years. After counseling at the Wesley Center since last June, Nelson-Munson started teaching “Love: A Practical Course” at the center this spring. “This is a class for people who are less interested in an academic study of love and more interested in a how-to explora tion on how to be a more loving person. I’m not out to do an intellectual study on the concept of love,” Nelson-Munson says. The purpose of the class is to help peo ple develop their ability to love, he says. Nelson-Munson says he encourages active participation from his students. “It quick ly becomes an issue where we are working with each other and giving each other feedback.” Nelson-Munson says the key in developing loving relationships is being able to love yourself. “One of the major obstacles in developing our ability to love is the difficulty we have loving ourselves. If you can’t love yourself, you’re going to have a hard time loving someone else,” he says. At each class session, Nelson-Munson has each student share three unique, lov ing things about themselves. He says this helps the students increase their self-love. The only cost of this non-credit course, Nelson-Munson says, is “that people have to risk themselves in loving relationships.” The hour-long class meets Wednesdays at 5 p.m. during spring term and is open to anyone who wishes to attend. Although there is no midterm or final, students have a “love project,’’ in which they must choose someone, preferably outside of class, with whom to learn how to develop a loving relationship. “It can be a romantic relationship, and on the other hand, it can be a relationship with someone you have a difficult time getting along with,” Nelson-Munson says. Nelson-Munson advises his students to concentrate on the practical aspects of car ing for a person. “You have to ask yourself what are their needs, likes and dislikes,” he says. The subjects of his students’ love projects remain anonymous to Nelson Munson. To start each session, Nelson-Munson has his students discuss the progress of their love projects and talk about their lov ing experiences of the week with one another. He also has his students read from and discuss Leo Buscaglia’s best selling book titled “Love.” Nelson-Munson’s students agree about why they joined the class. “We’re all just trying to understand more about love,” says Shane Penney, 29. “1 joined the class because 1 lacked an awareness of what love is,” he says. Laura Bartholomew, 20, says the discus sion format of the class helps students ex press their love. “Everybody is willing to admit love is important, but no one is will ing to discuss it. Love is something you have to learn about like everything else,” she says. Nelson-Munson says a couple of his students have requested that the course be offered for credit next year, but that would require approval from a University depart ment or school. “I may pursue that with one of the departments over the summer,” he says. Brian Nelson-Munson “But I’m not sure this is the type of class that would fit as an academic study.” Because there was such a positive response to the course, Nelson-Munson says next year he intends to go into greater detail dividing the course into a three term series. “I plan to teach students about three dif ferent types of love: loving ourselves, lov ing God or a higher power, and loving others,” he says. Although Nelson-Munson is a pastor, he emphasizes that teaching is his sole purpose during the course. “I do my preaching on Sunday,” he says with a smile. departments update Scholarships The University’s business school received $5,000 from the Western Association of Food Chains, Inc. for scholarships to students interested in a career in the food industry. Cyril Green, president of Fred Meyer, Inc., presented a check for the gift on behalf of the WAFC board of directors to James Reinmuth, University business school dean. "The support which has been provided over the past two years by the WAFC has given important assistance to students involved in continuing their programs of study in the Col lege of Business Administra tion," Reinmuth says. The grant is expected to pro vide five $1,000 scholarships during the 1985-86 school year. Law School awards Former law Professors Ken r neth O’Connell and Lois Inman Baker will receive Meritorious Service Awards for 1985 during the school’s commencement Sunday at the Hult Center. O'Connell, law professor from 1935-1958 and Oregon Supreme Court chief justice from 1970-76 has served the state as chair of the Statute Revi sion Council, vice chair of the Constitutional Revision Com mission, member of the Gover nor’s Commission on Judicial Reform and chair of Oregon's Rhodes Scholarship Committee. Derrick Bell, I-aw School dean, says O’Connell was especially interested in the law and its effect on people during his tenure as professor at the Law School. Baker, former law librarian, served at the school from 1936-1968. Baker was responsible for building the foundation upon which the current Law Library collection stands, allowing it to -—. ^German AUTO SERVICE VW’S MERCEDES BMW’S DATSUN TOYOTA Reliable service'or your OAO QQH Q 2025 Franklin Blvd foreign car since 1963 I ^ Eugene. Ore 97403 be the premiere law library in Oregon, Bell says. Computer gift The University business school will receive a gift of $260,000 worth of microcom puters from the Hewlett Packard Co., according to an an nouncement Monday by University and company officials. The new computers will make the business school one of the most computerized business programs in the Northwest, says r This ■hhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ....Illilf James Reinmuth, University business school dean. 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