Some graduate students of prestigious Duke University (DU) reportedly used yoga as a protest form to bring back free gym access for fourth and fifth-year students and exhibit how strongly they felt about the issue.
Protesting the revocation of access, these students held yoga classes on Abele Quad, named in honor of architect Julian Abele, on Thursday and spread around a petition seeking support signatures urging DU to cover their gym charges, reports suggest.
Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, calling it a crucial health issue for the graduate students, in a statement in Nevada today, urged DU President Richard H. Brodhead and Trustees Chair David M. Rubenstein to take care of the health and wellbeing of graduate students by allowing free gym access to all of them immediately, as the recreation center fee might be unaffordable for many.
Moreover, complimentary access to gym would be quite consistent with DU’s mission of promoting “human happiness” and “health”, Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, noted.
Rajan Zed commended the graduate students for this novel-healthy-thoughtful-peaceful-authentic medium of yoga as a civil rights and social action in an effort to change the minds of university administration.…(more)
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