The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom "It wa HAJJ gallon of From page 1 at the air After t This year, Hajj, the dates of grims tr which are determined by the 354- of rest an day Islamic calendar, fell over Win- The ne ter Break. For the first time in more travel to than 30 years, Muslim students at day of th the University were able to travel to They Saudi Arabia during the break and and at s fulfill their religious obligation. to spend "Sometimes here, (while pray- where I ing), your mind wanders," LSA cha said. sophomore Manal Peracha said. At Mu "But over there you feel like you're ground a directly speaking to God." stoning o Before undergoing the Hajj, Mina. many pilgrims travel to Medina There to visit the prophet Mohammad's bles at th tomb. Pharmacy student Maie Seif the devil. said her experience at the prophet's set up in resting place went beyond sight and ment. Po: sound. She could smell the sacred with the space. Seif exph "It smelled like a musk that they arranged said the prophet used to smell like," They are, Seif said. "When I smelled it, that is The p when I knew it was real." places th For most pilgrims, the experi- Abraham ence begins in Mecca. the story There, they pray before the ham to s Kaaba, the most holy site in devil trie Islam. Because Muslims must Abraham pray facing the Kaaba, this is the son live. only time Muslims may pray in a convince circle. God com Worshippers circumnavigate lamb inst the Kaaba counterclockwise seven After times and walk seventimes between their hea the hills of Safa and Marwah. lock of th Although the rite is not techni- To rep tally part of the Hajj, most pilgrims licalstor perform it before Hajj begins. the past, "When you join the people walk- animals 1 ing around the Kaaba, you can't often pay even see the end of the circle," said animal. Peracha. "All you can see is white the poor. dots moving counterclockwise." 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The d three times to persuade to defy God and let his Abraham refused. Finally, d of Abraham's devotion, manded him to sacrifice a tead. the stoning, men shave ads and women cut off a eir hair. resent the lamb in the bib- y, an animallis sacrificed. In many pilgrims sacrificed themselves. Now, pilgrims, y someone to sacrifice the The meat is distributed to ia's family paid for lambs rificed on their behalf. y, pilgrims travel back to for one last circle around )a. ding to the Saudi govern- ire than 2.1 million people e Hajj this year. e people save their whole go," Seif said. "I prayed :azakhs and Afghanis. It's see people, and the only u have in common with hat you are a Muslim." TAX BREAK From page 1 seat donation from people purchas- ing the stadium's best seats. Duderstadt said the flaw with the tax-deductible donations is that they are not actually charita- ble contributions, but quid-pro-quo agreements. Fans make the required seat donation, and then they are able to purchase tickets. Because they receive something in return for their donation, Duderstadt and other critics believe that the tax law is flawed. Supporters of the tax breaks argue that the required seat dona- tion does not actually give ticketh- olders anything - only the right to get something - and therefore should count as a tax-deductible, charitable donation. Much of the revenue that will be used to pay for the proposed con- struction of luxury boxes in Michi- gan Stadium is slated to come from required seat donations. Over 40 percent of the Athletic Department's revenue currently comes from ticket sales. The Ath- letic Department expects that almost 12 percent of its revenue for the 2007 fiscal year will come from required seat donations. Congress will likely continue investigating tax breaks for higher education as it opens a new ses-. sion. "Congress needs to look at the generous tax breaks we give col- leges and universities and see what the public gets in return," said Sen. Charles Grassley (R- Iowa), the ranking member on the Finance Committee, in a written statement. "These tax breaks are supposed to benefit the public. I'd like to have the universities explain how tax deductions for stadium sky boxes help families pay for college." Duderstadt was even more vig- orous in his estimation of public sentiment toward universities. "We simply have to restore a sense of public trust and confidence in higher education, and unfortu- nately thatis beingnseriously under- cut by intercollegiate athletics," he said. He said that as the cost of higher education continues to rise, huge projects like the Big House renova- tion seem wasteful. "The high visibility of the tax treatment of college sports will Friday, January 12, 2007 - 7 create negative public opinion that will influence political decisions that could affect tax law toward higher education," Duderstadt said. University officials said they don't know what effect any chang- es to the tax law would have on the athletic program. "It wouldn't necessarily change our decision to do stadium renova- tions if the tax law were to change," Slottow said. "We're not doing the stadium renovations to exploit the tax law." But Slottowsaid he wasn't entire- ly confident about selling tickets without the exemption. "I wouldn't want to be the one to test whether or not people are buying tickets because of the tax deductions," he said. "But I don't think thatthey are." BIG HOUSE From page 1 Under the provisions of the ADA, routine maintenance does not necessitate the same standards of compliance. "We have been working on repairing the concrete, tearing it up and pouring it back into place anew since the mid-'90s," Cunningham said. "Everything went back exact- ly as it came out." Cunningham said the number of wheelchair-accessible seats in the renovated stadium has not yet been finalized. "There was never any ques- tion that the stadium expansion project would be ADA compliant," Cunningham said. "Increasing the number and location of accessible seating has been a priority for the University since the inception of the project." Fifty-two season-ticket hold- ers currently request wheelchair- accessibleseats. MichiganStadium has 90 wheelchair-accessible seats - 45 behind each end zone. The new plan offers an additional 72 wheelchair-accessible seats on the west sideline of the stadium. There will also be accessible seat- ing in the new luxury boxes and club seating, bringing the total to 282. PREPARE TO BE RAZED "Everyticketholder who requests an accessible seat is accommodated in Michigan Stadium," Cunning- ham said. "We have never turned anyone away." Harris said the current seating arrangement has dissuaded fans from attendingthe gameespecially students in wheelchairs who can't sit with their friends in the student section. Residential College senior Sarah Watkins stopped coming to the games for that very reason, Harris £ said. "I cancelled my season tickets because I thought the seating in the supposedly acceptable sec- tion of the stadium for disabled people was inadequate," Watkins said. "One of my main complaints is that there is not accessible seat- ing dispersed throughout enough of the stadium or in the student section." Cunningham said the University has begun to discuss the issue with r lawmakers. Harris said he hopes the Univer- sity agrees to make the necessary changes the Michigan Paralyzed Veterans of America requested. 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