Prayer factors into students’ schedules

Finding spare time in college might seem a difficult task to many students, but for Muslim students, finding time to attend all of their classes and pray five times a day is a daily responsibility.

Salah Awad, an Ohio University graduate student studying biochemistry, said praying five times a day is mandatory, and although classes can get in the way, he heads to his room every chance he has to pray.

“I leave class whenever it ends and head to my room to pray,” Awad said. “I have to pray five times a day, and I always find time to pray.”

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