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Select students will have the opportunity next semester to learn about leadership from a man who helped organize Operation Desert Fox, served in the military for more than 35 years and acted as the U.S. special envoy to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni was named the Sanford Distinguished Lecturer in Residence for this spring. The retired four-star general and former head of the United States Central Command will teach a new course in the Hart
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Arguing that South Asia is playing an increasingly more significant role in world affairs, a group of students is advocating an expanded academic curriculum focused on the region. Some students have complained about the lack of resources available at Duke for studying the area and have formed the Duke South Asian Studies Initiative group on Facebook to address their concerns. The group’s profile states that Duke offers fewer study abroad opportunities, courses, faculty and foreign languages related to South Asia than its peer institutions. “I think that Duke is trying to give us an education that is globally relevant, but this is a part of the world that isn’t getting the attention that it has deserved,” said senior Shawn Kwatra, creator of DSASI and copresident of Diya, Duke’s South Asian students association.Kwatra is also a member ofThe Chronicle’s independent editorial board. There are approximately 230 members in the group. Currently, the University only offers Hindi as a modem South Asian language and has no South Asian specialty programs. Other institutions such as Yale University, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University, however, all offer
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Leadership Program. “The thing that attracted me the most [to Duke] is the emphasis on leadership,” Zinni said in a statement. A public critic of the Bush administration’s decision to go to war in Iraq, Zinni spoke at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy in January, delivering the 2007 Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture, “Iraq: Failures, Realities and the Future.” Approximately 250 students attended the lecture, and Zinni spent more than 10 hours talking to various students and faculty groups after the speech, said Bruce Kuniholm, a professor of public policy and history and director of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy. Kuniholm’s interest in Zinni for the President Richard Brodhead, Deputy Consul General of Japan Masanobu Yoshii and the mayors of Durham and sister city Toyama, Japan, were among the half-dozen speakers at a dedication ceremony for theDurham-Toyama Sister CitiesPavilion in the Sarah P. Duke GardensWednesday afternoon.
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Study touts exercise to cure blues by
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Not only does exercise improve your health, it may also improve your mood. The American College Health Association’s National College Health Assessment reported that in the fall of 2006, 12.5 percent of the total Duke student population was diagnosed with depression. And a recent study conducted at Duke shows that exercise may potentially serve as an alternative to medication in treating them. James Blumenthal, a professor of clinical psychology at Duke University Medical Center, was the author of the Standard Medical Intervention and Long-term Exercise study, which examined the effects of four different treatments on 202 depressed adults. “What we found was that people who got exercise or the antidepressant did better than the group
A study hasfound that regular exercise can be an effective treatment for clinical depression.
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Retired Gen. Anthony Zinni, once commander of Ui. Central Command, will teach a course at Duke.