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
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top, state-of-the-art computers
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management programs, says
Jerry Fisher, director of public
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The equipment, including
printers, plotters and software,
is expected to be received and
installed beginning in May.
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