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,,and other religious conflicts
Posted by colleen at 12/28/2000 12:56 PM EST


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In Reply to: Passover and the Nationals
Posted by Julia Walsh on 12/28/2000 11:52 AM EST:



No Julia-- I don't have that problem.. but last year we had a student on 246 (he was Muslim I believe) who needed to kneel and pray in the direction of sun 3 times a day. Since there was no real quiet area at the competition that he could do such a thing he had to go back to the hotel and missed a few of our matches because of the long bus lines and travel time..

Not that it's obviously priority in a competition like this.. but maybe for next year it's something FIRST could take into consideration.. build an extra tent that could be used during the day or at night (I'm not sure exactly what you have to do at Passover) for teams or individuals with special needs like these to use. This is something FIRST could plan in the off season and find out from teams prior who would need this and it can be reserved for them

too late for this year prolly, but maybe for 2002...
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