Pray Calling

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Athletic departments reflect on the need for public prayer rooms in sports venues.

4 R 307 Ab It must have been an unusual sight for the unsuspecting football fan in line only to purchase a soft pretzel. There on the soiled concourse floor at Ryan Field was Northwestern University junior Ashar Wasi and other Muslim students kneeling in prayer. They had little choice, they say. "We had to pray in front of the concessions stand, in front of all the people," Wasi told The Daily Northwestern student newspaper after the 2006 season.

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