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Friday, February 17, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Quest for knowledge Eric Montgomery/Special to the Kansan
Searching for a book, Jim Berghuis, Holland, Mich., graduate student, looks in the stacks of Watson Library.
Students study death and dying Assignments include imagining loss of friends, family
How would you react if the one person who is most important to you died last night?
by Kathy Walsh Kansan staff writer
Valerie Brown, Lawrence graduate student, said this when she was asked this question as part of a class on "The Psychology of Social Media."
"I felt uncomfortable about it. I didn't want to think about it." Brown said.
The class, Death and Dying, includes many such questions posed by Stanley Sterling, associate professor of social welfare and teacher of the course.
"This course is about life, living and loving"
"when being ill, living and living when
being examined death and dying."
Another exercise requires students to pick three people close to them and imagine what they would say if the student asked, "If I were to die tonight, what would you miss most?"
After the students write down how they think the three people will respond. Sterling has the students go to these people and ask them for their actual response to the question.
Jay Johnson, Kansas City, Kan., graduate student, said that it was hard for him to ask his
People are doomed if they do not relegate the lost person or object to its proper place in memory, because they will live the rest of their lives as though that person or object were still alive. '
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Stanley Sterling associate professor of social welfare
friends and relatives the question.
"It's difficult to sit down and talk with people about death and their concepts about death," said Diane Fletcher.
Sterling said the course was about not only death and diving, but also about loss and grief.
Death and dying is just one of many losses people experience during their lives, Sterling said. Some other losses people experience include the loss of a person through divorce or separation.
"leap in pervasive in our lives," he said. "Every loss in our development represents our gains as well."
People go through a grief process as a result of loss, Sterling said. This process involves detaching our emotional energy that was invested in the lost object and reinvesting it in a new person or object.
Reattaching emotional energy is difficult for people because they risk rejection, Sterling said.
"People are doomed if they do not relegate the lee person or object to its proper place in memory because they will live the rest of their lives as though that person or object were still alive." he said.
The concept of unfinished business, or feelings that have not been expressed, is often associated with loss, Sterling said. Unfinished business can hinder the grieving process.
"It is difficult to die in peace when there is unfinished business," he said. "We live our lives as if there is all the time in the world, so we amass a lot of unfinished business."
Brenda Callabresi, Salina graduate student, took the course last spring. She said the course involved a lot of personal exploration, especially involving the death of her marriage.
"The exercises bring out a lot of barred feelings
you might not necessarily be aware of," she said.
by Kathy Walsh Kansan staff writer
Student organization stresses AIDS education at KU
The AIDS Student Action Association met
the plans for AIDS education
(520) 879-3141
Rebecca Newburn, chairman of the Student Senate AIDS Task Force, said the purpose of the meeting was to develop a core group of individuals to get the program started
"The good point about a core group is that it will provide continuity." Newburn said.
The AIDS Student Action Association is composed of five teams. There is one team each for condom sense week, condom awareness week and speakers' bureau and summer orientation.
Brook Menees, student body president, said the AIDS Student Action Association was a way to get more people involved in
AIDS education on campus.
"If we are going to change attitudes about AIDS we need to do it at the student level." M兵器说。
Phil Huntsteiner, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation, used a current example to express the need for AIDS education.
Huntingstier said that a doctor at Watkins Memorial Health Center told him that the
campus would close down, or everyone would have to be inoculated if there were three confirmed cases of the measles.
"We have far more cases of AIDS on campus than we do measles," he said. "At this point there not going to be a cure, but now that we've answered the answer left is education. That's our hope."
it was important that everyone worked to bring the campus together.
"I think when AIDS first came out, it was associated with homosexuals and IV drug use."
Steve St. Peter, Wichita senior and Morta-
Board's representative to the task force, said
Lauren Crain, Lawrence senior and Gay and Lesbian services of Kansas representative to the task force, said that she thought it would be helpful for them to understand AIDS before it affected them.
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