S

ome 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. This