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President Richard Brodhead addresses panelists and guests Saturday at a meeting on women's issues aspart ofDuke Women's Health and WellnessWeekend. by
Diana Sheldon THE CHRONICLE
Although a few unaware husbands stumbled into a room full of ladies lunching in the Bryan Center Friday afternoon, what appeared to simply be a social gathering was really the beginning of a heavily-structured weekend—open to females exclusively—on women’s health. Duke invited alumnae of all ages to return to campus Friday and Saturday, for Duke Women’s Health and Wellness Weekend, which was hosted by the Alumni Association and the Women’s Center.
Activities for the weekend ranged from panels on managing health throughout different decades to tai chi on the lawn outside the Chapel and opportunities for networking between students and alumnae. “We decided that we wanted to invite all alumnae back for the weekend and develop a program that would appeal to all ages and would promote interaction with the campus,” said Sterly Wilder, executive director of alumni affairs. Many alumnae said they attended the weekend’s events to reconnect with old
Historians talk bias, culture by
Emtiaz Hassan THE CHRONICLE
students, John Hope Franklin and Romila Thapar treated members to an
professors and community in-depth discussion on the role of historians in social and cultural change at the Divinity School’s Goodson Chapel Saturday. Franklin, James B. Duke professor emeritus of history, and Thapar, professor
John Hope Franklin
emeritus of history at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, discussed the evolution of the study of history in front of a packed audience Saturday afternoon. The talk—“The Historian in the World”—was sponsored by the John Hope SEE FRANKLIN ON PAGE 5
friends. “I came this weekend to get together with my friends in a constructive way. There are seven of us here from my year this weekend,” said Marcy Martin, Trinity ’B4. Wendy Marantz Levine, Trinity ’95, said she appreciated the opportunity to return to Duke and discuss women’s health issues. “I came with my two closest friends from Pegram to get awayfrom our husbands and kids,” Levine said. “I sat on the Women’s SEE WELLNESS ON PAGE 5
The Robertson Scholars Program will implement a range of curricular and extracurricular changes. Tony Brown, Robertson Scholars Program president, announced a series of new initiatives that will occur in the upcoming year in his weekly e-mail to scholars Friday. The changes include the suspension of the Faculty Partners Program and modifications to both Second Summer; International and First-Year Colloquium. “We want to never be Tony Brown satisfied with what we’re doing so we’re always looking for ways to make things better,” Brown, a professor of the practice of public policy and sociology, told The Chronicle. “The best way to do that is to listen to our scholars.” Prior to its suspension, the Faculty Partners Program provided an opportunity for Robertson Scholars to develop close relationships with faculty members from the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill or Duke through meetings and outings. Scholars take classes at both UNC and Duke, primarily enrolling at one school and taking at least five courses at the other. The program focuses on service. Brown —who took the program’s helm in July—wrote in the Scholars’ Weekly SEE ROBERTSON ON PAGE
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