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University Offers Services and Programs For Pregnant Students

Although Schultz and many of the expecting mothers do not anticipate on taking any time off, the university’s Continuous Residence Regulations offers a stop-out which allows for undergraduate students to be absent for one semester.

“With certain exceptions, students may be absent for one semester and maintain their continuing student status,” the policy found in the university catalog states.

“This includes election of curriculum requirements for graduation and eligibility to register for the next semester.”

Should students require more than one semester off, they may request a leave of absence.

A leave of absence may be given to students with documented extenuating circumstances and is not normally is granted for more than one year, the policy states.

“Such an approved leave of absence authorizes the student to return without reapplying to the university and continue under the catalog requirements that applied to the semester prior to the absence.”

Although the university sees pregnancy as a personal matter, it does provide accommodations for expecting mothers who seek them.

Among these special accommodations are limited parking privileges and more comfortable furniture provided through the Office of Disabled Student Services and guidance and counseling through the Student Health and Counseling Center.

At the Student Health Center, students who believe they are pregnant are first given a free pregnancy test.

If the pregnancy is desired, they are also offered health care options for insurance through the county as well as counseling through the counseling center, White said.

“I had insurance through the school and so I went to the health department and they gave me a brochure on being pregnant and steps that I needed to take and they referred me to some OB/GYN,” Schultz said.

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SURVIVOR - Immaculee Ilibagiza, author of “Left to Tell: Discovering God Admist the Rwandan Holocaust” shares her story of faith during the Rwandan Holocaust at the CSUF Irvine Campus on Thursday.

Forgiveness and Faith Forge a Life After Horror Immaculee Ilibagiza details her experience of the Rwandan genocide

By Joey T. English

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

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Sometimes I thank God that I had to go through this genocide.

If I can reach out to another human being, then it will be worth it.

had to go through this genocide,” Ilibagiza said at the start of the discussion. “If I can reach out to another human being, then it will be worth it.”

While hiding in the bathroom, Ilibagiza said she learned English “one word by one word” through a dictionary she had requested from the pastor. At that time, she felt she would need to know the language to tell her story if she survived.

During her painful experience, Ilibagiza said her faith in God gave her the strength to survive and the willingness to forgive the killers.

Ilibagiza said she only had a Bible to read in the bathroom and a rosary that her father had given her when she last said goodbye to him.

“I was saying the Lord’s prayer 100 times a day,” Iligabiza said.

Yet, the Lord’s Prayer did not come easy for Ilibagiza.

“How can you forgive someone who is killing you?” she said, noting that the prayer commands forgiveness for those who “trespass against” her. “To me, at that moment, the Hutus were animals.”

Rwandan genocide survivor Immaculee Ilibagiza spoke Thursday at the Irvine campus not only of the horror she witnessed during the mass murder, but of the forgiveness and love she discovered for those whom sought to kill her.

Around 300 people from the local community and university filled the campus’s atrium for Ilibagiza’s speech, which was followed by audience questions and a book signing of her New York Times best seller “Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust.”

Ilibagiza explained to the audience that she had left the university she attended to spend the Easter holidays with her family on April 6, 1994.

That same day, Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana was killed. The assassination triggered ethnic tensions between the Tutsis

and the majority Hutus, who held the power.

“After that, the Hutus started killing,” Ilibagiza said in an interview before the lecture.

“There were no jobs anymore.

The only job was going and killing Tutsis.”

Over the next three months, Ilibagiza, who is a Tutsi, spent 91 days hiding in a pastor’s cramped bathroom with seven other women while Hutu extremists embarked on a killing spree. Nearly one million people, mostly Tutsis, were killed in the genocide – including Ilibagiza’s mother, father and two of her three brothers, she said.

“Sometimes I thank God that I

A CSUF student and long-time friend of the Omondi family, speaking under the condition of anonymity, attended the proceedings.

She described Omondi as a “nice, warm hearted, kind” man who was “always smiling.”

She vividly recalled memories of his son as “bright, spunky, fun [and] extroverted,” while “showing leadership qualities [when] talking to other kids.”

If convicted, Omondi could be eligible for the death sentence or life in prison without parole, though no formal decision has been announced by the District Attorney’s Office at this time.

“That determination on whether or not to seek the death penalty has yet to be made,” McGreevy said.

COURTROOM DRAMA - Gideon Omondi (center) watches on at his arraignment on Friday as his Public Defender Arlene Speiser (right) asks the judge for a continuance. The CSUF student is in custody on first-degree murder charges for the Sept. 10 drowning of his son Richard.

– Immaculee Ilibagiza Rwandan Genocide Survivor

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time off from school until after she receives her degree.

“Because the baby is due right around Thanksgiving, I am hoping that she will come early so that I can have the baby during fall recess,” Schultz said.

“I adjusted my schedule for allowing a lot of home time for when the baby comes so I will be able to breastfeed and be there.”

Schultz is among some students on campus who chose to continue attending classes throughout their pregnancy despite the added challenges that it may

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BABY ON BOARD - Pregnant 22-year-old finance When it comes to student Katie Schultz poses for the camera. pregnant students on campus, the university has no written policy on how an Campus offers help with expecting mother should go about disabled parking and managing school.

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By NORALY HERNANDEZ they balance school and their pregDaily Titan Staff Writer nancy. news@dailytitan.com In addition, CSUF does not Eight months from now 22-year- keep track of pregnant students old Katie Schultz will become a on campus because most expectCal State Fullerton graduate. Two ing mothers make their own armonths from now she will become rangements and accommodations a mother. without notifying the university, “We were planning on having health educator Bonnie White said. kids right after I graduated,” Schultz In her experience, like Schultz, said. “It was going to happen soon most pregnant students want to conbut not during school.” tinue attending classes, said Director Schultz said she learned she was of Academic Advisement Bridget expecting during the spring semester Driscoll. and was concerned about the com“In the situations I have been plications that could arise due to her involved in, most of the mothers pregnancy. want to stay in school so I work “I was worried about morning with them to develop a plan of acsickness and going to classes,” she tion for academic and physiological said. “I had a few hard days but for success,” Driscoll wrote in an e-mail the most part I wasn’t sick at all. It interview. has been a really easy pregnancy ac“Of course at the end of the setually.” mester my students love it when Although Schultz did not plan on they read the last page of the test that having children before she graduat- wishes them a safe, speedy delivery ed, she does not plan on taking any and a healthy, happy child.”

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Proceedings for Student Accused of Son’s Death Set for November

By Adam Levy

Daily Titan News Editor alevy@dailytitan.com

The wheels of the justice system continued to turn in the case of Gideon Walter Omondi, the Cal State Fullerton student who allegedly drowned his four-year-old son.

Omondi, charged with first-degree murder, was arraigned at the Orange County Superior Court, North Justice Center Fullerton Friday morning.

Senior Deputy District Attorney Steve McGreevy represented the prosecution, while Deputy Public Defender Arlene Speiser spoke on Omondi’s behalf.

Both sides agreed to a continu-

ance to the proceedings, set for Nov. 17.

The 35-year-old mechanical engineering major turned himself in to the Fullerton Police Department on the evening of Sept. 10, allegedly notifying the officers on duty that he had drowned his son Richard in the bathtub of his Fullerton apartment.

Officers at the scene found the child’s body tucked into his bed and took him to Placentia-Linda Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The boy’s mother, Helen Omondi, declined to be interviewed.

Since his Sept. 12 arraignment, Omondi has been held without bail at the Orange County Jail in Santa Ana.

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While incarcerated, the Kenya native has been under evaluation in the medical ward, clad in only a gown, according to Orange County Sheriff’s authorities.

Omondi, clothed in an orange jumpsuit with an ash gray undershirt, was escorted into the court holding cell Friday morning at 9:25 a.m.

He spent five minutes conferring with Speiser, who subsequently expressed her disenchantment of Judge Roger B. Robbins’ decision to allow media to photographically document the arraignment inside the courtroom.

The Daily Titan was the only news media present at the dealings.

Speiser declined to be interviewed.

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In Brief

CAMPUS CALENDAR SURVIVOR: of Rwandan Genocide Speaks to CSUF (From Page One)

TUESDAY

HAN ZI REINVENTED: The Rhythm of Chinese Script exhibition opens at noon in the main gallery of the Visual Arts building. This ongoing exhibit displays the importance of Chinese character in art. The exhibition is scheduled to run daily through Oct. 13.

“The Integrated Mother” author, Michelle Dortch will speak about dealing with life in times of chaos at noon in University Hall 205.

The Symphonic Band perform some of their classic work, including John Zdechilk’s “Chorale and Shaker Dance” at 8 p.m. in the Meng Concert Hall. Tickets are $10 for the general public, $5 advance purchase for senior citizens and students with CSUF ID.

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But Ilibagiza said her faith allowed her to let go of her anger and forgive.

“I knew that they didn’t know what they were doing. There was a blindness behind them.”

After the genocide ended, Ilibagizia visited a prison in Rwanda and came face-to-face with the man who had killed her father.

“I told him ‘I forgive you’ – it just came out of my mouth,” Ilibagizia said.

Leaving the bathroom and stepping outside left Ilibagiza to wonder if she had endured the apocalypse, she said.

“The whole country was full of dead bodies. I had lost friends, I had lost family and I was completely a skeleton.”

Ilibagiza said she went into the bathroom at 125 pounds and came out at 65 pounds.

“I remember looking at my hands and thinking, ‘the biologists who have been telling us that we have this bone here and here’ –” she said, pointing to various bones on her body – “They are right!” It was one of the few times the audience laughed.

She told the audience that “genocide is an elevated level of hatred” and that the best way she knew to prevent such an atrocity is through compassion and love.

“The most important lesson I learned during this whole thing I went through is just to be there and reach out to another person and love them,” Ilibagiza said.

An audience member asked Ilibagiza why the genocide failed to make headline news.

“I ask myself that question,” Ilibagiza replied. “When it was happening in Rwanda, this was the time when O.J. Simpson was big news in

this country. Everybody was busy watching that.”

Nicole Brown Simpson was found dead on June 12, 1994, which ignited the widely publicized trial about two months after the genocide began. Ilibagiza believed the timing of these events was planned by “the devil” to hide the genocide from Americans, she said.

Paul Rudatsikira, a Rwandan genocide survivor himself who attended the event, said he escaped to America just after the genocide began.

“When we would turn on the news [in America], it was O.J. Simpson 24 hours a day,” Rudatsikira said.

Meanwhile, he said his family received calls every day that another family member had been killed. “It was a huge disconnect,” he said.

Rudatsikira, who knows Ilibagiza as a friend, said he sees her

story as an example for others to follow.

“The way she has learned to forgive is very special,” he said.

“A lot of Rwandans who went through the genocide and lost family members still have a lot of bitterness and a lot of hate. But through her story, a lot of them are now starting to change.”

Melody Mangrello, a graduate student at Cal State Fullerton who attended the event, said, “You find yourself speechless because you’re so wowed by the experience of everything she went through and overcame.”

Ilibagiza said she wanted her book to send a message of hope and love.

She ended the discussion to a standing ovation when she said, “You don’t have to go through what I went through to know you have the possibilities and the freedom to be OK.”

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Student Services, students can also receive accommodations to help them throughout their pregnancy, said Elizabeth Buchanan, alternate media format and special program specialist said.

“For instance, a student might be in a classroom with a small desk, so we could provide a chair and a table for her classes,” Buchanan wrote in an e-mail interview.

“Also, we do issue a Disabled Persons Parking Permit for pregnant students. This enables students to park closer to her class.”

If a student would like to receive these accommodations she must fill out an application at the Office of Disabled Student Services.

Furthermore, parking permits are given for the last four weeks of the pregnancy after the student submits a physician’s note indicating her due date.

Anyone who needs a parking permit before the last four weeks can apply for a temporary disabled parking permit through the Department of Motor Vehicles, Buchanan said.

However, receiving these parking privileges was more troublesome than Eva Kammerer, 26, expected it to be.

Kammerer, a human services major who chose to have her two children while attending CSUF, learned of the temporary parking permits after her personal doctor ordered her to not exercise and recommended that she petition for one of the permits.

She then submitted her doctor’s note to the Office of Disabled Student Services but then had to submit more paperwork since her original note was not sufficient.

“If you are pregnant and you are in need or think you want the temporary disability so you can park close by so you don’t walk so far, just make sure you provide all the documentation to the Office of Disabled Student Services right away,” Kammerer said. “If you provide them with all the information and the doctor’s letter right away, then it shouldn’t be a problem.”

Another service offered to women is the campus Children’s Center where parents can drop off their children while they attend classes.

“I love the Children’s Center; I would not have been able to come back and go to school if it wasn’t for the Children’s Center,” Kammerer said.

For students who are parents or are expecting, Kammerer recently started a parenting support group.

“It is just a group to get together with other parents and talk about some of the issues like time management, stress management and finding good child care,” Kammerer said. “It will be informal but informational.”

Kammerer was uninformed about all the services and accommodations available to pregnant students.

She said that she’s satisfied with all the assistance given to expecting mothers. Although she would like to have been advised about these services, she said that she understands that the pregnant student

population on campus is small and sibility, Park said she was subject publicizing these services may not be to some looks and even judgmenfeasible. tal comments from Lauren Park, peers. a piano perfor“I got a lot of looks mance major, was Most of the mothers mostly from women, also unaware of not even men, whenavailable accom- want to stay in school ever I was in a place modations but so I work with them like an elevator or in finds them helpful Park said. to develop a plan of a hallway,” nevertheless.

“I don’t know if “Something I action for academic and it was out of curiosthink the univer- physiological success. ity but people would sity could improve stop and stare as if on is accommoda– Bridget Driscoll I was some kind of tions for women Director of Academic Advisement anomaly.” who have chilChair of women’s dren,” Park said. studies program Re“There is no nae Bredin said that place to change the way the univeryour baby’s diaper or sit down and sity handles pregnant women on nurse. It’s really not a child-friendly campus is much the same way they campus in that way.” are treated in the workplace. She also Aside from the academic respon- agrees that pregnancy is a personal

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Writing for creativity and healing workshop begins at noon in the Women’s Center UH 205. Attendees will be encouraged to write in journaling, poetry or fiction (From Page One) Through the Disabled style to cope with a loss or painful events.

matter and finds no real problem with the way the university handles it.

Bredin, who was pregnant during her graduate studies, explained that although pregnant students may face some obstacles, including more critical professors, good time management will help lessen the pressure.

Senior Frank Aceves, although mostly unfamiliar with what accommodations are available for pregnant students, finds the listed accommodations to be relatively adequate.

“Pregnancy is not necessarily disability,” Aceves said referring to the bounds of the accommodations made for pregnant students.

“Pregnancy, regardless if it is wanted or unwanted, it is a result of a personal choice; I don’t know how much responsibility the school should take for students’ actions.”

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Unclaimed Property is Today’s Treasure Government keeps log of forgotten treasures just waiting to be found by paolo andres

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

The idea of vast riches and hidden treasure has titillated man’s fantasies for countless ages. For many, hidden treasures are only figments of imagination; a fantasy along the lines of pirate adventures and treasure maps. But hidden treasures do exist – if people know where to look.

Unclaimed property is the quintessential hidden treasure. Entangled within government bureaucracy, treasures of unclaimed money orders and tax refunds, along with other unredeemed financial accounts, await those who know where to look for them.

According to the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators, a non-profit organization affiliated with the National Association of State Treasurers, these forgotten funds can come from uncashed insurance refunds, traveler’s checks, annuities, certificates of deposit, royalty payments, utility deposits and contents of safe deposit boxes.

Each state has enacted an unclaimed property order that instructs companies to turn in funds from forgotten accounts to state officials who then make an effort to return them to their rightful owners or heirs, according to the association.

Most states hold the forgotten funds until they are claimed, returning them to the verified owner for a nominal fee upon filing the claim or even for free.

Because physically keeping all the forgotten items from safety deposit boxes is a huge task, many states hold periodic auctions to sell the

contents of unclaimed deposit boxes. The funds obtained from the auctions are then kept for their original owners, according to the association’s Web site.

Some states have even turned to eBay to sell unclaimed items.

Last year, over 1.3 million claims were paid to owners totaling at least $1.2 billion, according to the association.

Many of the accounts contain only a small amount of money from certain overpaid items and uncashed refunds, but a lucky few can look forward to a handsome bounty for forgotten treasures.

Among the more impressive accounts are an 88-carat natural Blue Star sapphire ring worth $25,000, according to the Associated Press.

Many people are also richer than they think.

A Dateline report told of Gordon White, a Hurricane Katrina victim.

White was in the process of building his dream home when the storm struck. Unable to finish the job, White was stranded in a trailer home.

It was then when State treasurer Tate Reeves, who runs the unclaimed property division Mississippi, gave White the news of his life.

White is the recipient of $200,000 from 3,499 shares of Wachovia bank stock his father had secretly acquired some time ago.

But surprisingly, despite having enough money to continue his dream home, White showed that his great luck is only surpassed by his greater generosity.

“Most of it will go to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Memphis – that’s where most of it will go,” White said in the Dateline interview. “That’s the way I do, help somebody who really needs help and those children are it.”

Currently, the state of California possesses more than $4.8 billion worth of unclaimed property in the forms of bank accounts, stocks and other unaccounted properties.

California enacted the Unclaimed Property Law in 1959, which prohibited banks and other corporations from using money from untouched accounts.

“When a property owner doesn’t touch their account for three years, it’s actually law that the holder, whether it’s a bank or financial institution, to send that money to the state for safekeeping until the rightful owner of heir claims it,” said Garin Casaleggio, spokesman for the California State Controller’s Office.

According to the Web site of the State Controller’s office, there are currently 7.6 million unclaimed accounts in the state. Last year, 239,000 people have claimed properties with an average worth of $1,000 each.

But by federal law, the state is unable to personally contact possible owners of unclaimed properties, said Russ Lopez, communication director for the State Controller.

“There are 7.6 million accounts in unclaimed property. Simply speaking: if we call one person, we’re going to have to call everybody. We have a very small staff. It’s a logistical impossibility,” Lopez said.

“What Steve Westly, the State Controller, has done is we have gone through out the state to promote educational types of events,” Lopez said.

“But by federal statute, we are

not allowed to personally contact you.”

Though the state is unable to contact individual owners, many programs have been implemented to advertise the great number of unclaimed properties.

“The Controller has done an amazing job of getting it out from city to city and trying to return the budget from unclaimed property back to people,” Casaleggio said.

“We’ve even updated our Web site to include the Spanish language.”

Many hopeful individuals have used online databases to look for opportunities in acquiring unclaimed money.

According to the association, many business firms have used the Freedom of Information Act to develop Web Sites to specifically search for lost properties for a fee.

Though the firms may notify individuals of legitimate property claims, the association warns that all the information can be acquired in the state databases free of charge.

Earlier this year, Steve Westly, California State Controller, and Senator Carole Migden proposed legislation that would separate the unclaimed property account from the State’s general fund and also remove the restrictions on the State Controller’s ability to locate the owners of unclaimed properties.

The bill would also provide interest for all unclaimed property

claims starting Jan. 1, 2007.

Last year, the State spent almost $900 million from unclaimed property accounts by depositing it into the State’s General Fund and using the money just like any other revenue, according to the bill’s press release, of which, about $240 million was used to pay claims.

Westly and Migden proposed the bill to end this.

The bill is currently held on committee under submission.

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OPINION Titan Editorial Providing insight, analysis and perspective since 1960

Real Legislation Please, Not More Politicking and Re-election Spin The “do-nothing” Congress of 2006 has finally done something.

No, it hasn’t put together – let alone vote on – the remaining 10 or so budget bills it needs to assemble this year.

No, we still haven’t done anything with detainees at Gitmo yet.

What Congress has done was decide on what it wanted to do with Mexico.

Unfortunately, rather than build bridges with Mexico and across party lines, it seems that some in the U.S. government would rather build walls.

Before leaving Friday night, the Senate passed a bill in an 80-

19 vote that authorizes 700 miles of fencing on the 2,000-mile long U.S.-Mexico border.

For those who don’t want to bother with the math, we’ll help – that’s just over a third of the stretch.

There’s no word on what the wall will be made of yet. We wonder how hard it will be to burrow under or climb over.

In an article on CNN.com, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy calls the legislation “a bumper sticker solution for a complex problem.”

He further said that the bill is “a feel-good plan that will have little effect in the real world.”

“We all know what this is about.

The Bush administration failed It may be good politics, but it’s bad to get Osama bin Laden. It failed immigration polito establish a decy,” he said. mocracy in Iraq.

We couldn’t The wall seems more And it failed to agree more. come through for a symbol than a The wall seems its own people in more a symbol solution, more about its most desperate than a solution, politics than progress, time of need durmore about poli- more of a rallying cry ing Hurricane Katics than prog- for a party going into trina. ress. It’s more of into an election with the thisComing a rallying cry for presidency, stain of failure a party going into the U.S. had a suran election with plus in the budget. the stain of some Now, we’re losing of the greatest failures in American money every fiscal year. history on its hands.

President Bush once said that

the American people had given him a mandate.

It was an odd phrase for a man who narrowly lost the popular vote, but it played out as true – both Congress and the Supreme Court are stacked with conservatives.

Yet, despite the fact that his party controls all three branches of government, Bush has been unable to find any meaningful responses to the challenges he has faced.

These failures will be used as tinder to burn the Republican Party at the stake in this election year, and they know it.

So what does the GOP do? They play the immigration “get out of

jail free” card.

If this nation wants to confront illegal immigration, its people need to examine a number of issues.

We need to look at the impact of illegal employment in the agricultural sector.

We need to look at the impact of free trade.

What we don’t need is a meaningless impediment – one that will simply be jumped over, dug under or moved around.

And by creating such legislations, the Republican party is merely draping a washcloth on the elephant in the room.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Titan Editorial is solely the opinion of the Daily Titan editorial board and was written after the open debate between board members. The editorial board consists of the executive editor, the managing editor, the opinion editor, the news editors, the copy chief and other editors upon appointment of the executive editor.

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Sigma Alpha Lambda, naional honors organization is seeking motivated students to serve as founding chapter officers/members to begin a campus chapter. Contact: RMINER@salhonors.org

3300 Pets

ENGLISH BULLDOG FOR SALE

Registered/registerable (AKC, NKC, etc.), Current vaccinations, veterinarian examination, health certificate, health guarantee, pedigree, and travel crate. EMAIL chrisscott_ 1970@yahoo.com.

Part-time Help Wanted

Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary needs staff for tour guides, maintenance, animal care & feeding. Weekend and weekdays available. (714) 649-2760 or kcornell@fullerton.edu. www.tuckerwildlife.org.,29322 Modjeska Canyon Rd., Modjeska Canyon, CA 92676

ACTIVITIES COORDINATOR Part-time, flexible hours. Some wkends and evenings required. $9-$12/hour. Must be detailed and organized.

Applications available at 5325 Village Center Drive, Yorba Linda. Minutes from CSUF. Questions – contact Susan at (714) 779-0657.

FOSCARI PT Hosts & Banquet servers needed in Anaheim Hills fine dining restaurant.

Pay starts at $12.00/hr for hosting position. foscari@ sbcglobal.net 714-342-8076.

TEACHER ASST. PRESCHOOOL Irvine. Boost your career! F/T, P/T, or flexible schedule. $9-13/hr. ECE or enrolled. Call Rayann at (949) 854-6030.

5800 Tutoring Offered/Wanted

Rates: One insertion, up to 20 words .........................................$5.00 each additional word........$0.35 12pt Headline...................$1.60 16pt Headline...................$2.25 Border..............................$5.00 • Weekly and monthly rates are also available.

• For classified display ads, please see our rate card for rate information.

Deadlines: Classified Line Ads: 3 Business days before printing @ 12 noon.

Classified Display Ads: 3 Business days before printing @ 12 noon.

Payment: Please make checks payable to: "The Daily Titan" We also accept Visa and Mastercard Read the Daily Titan online @

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Wanted English, Math, Science, and Education majors to tutor younger students.

Flexible working hours. Call 714-577-8540.

Thai Native Thai speaker to tutor 12-year old in reading and writing Thai. 2-4 hours/ week.

Time/ pay negotiable. Contact Dr. Brady Rhodes, MH341A, 714-278-2942 or 714-401-2367

6100 Career Opportunities

Part-time Needed Earn $10/hr Insurance brokerage seeking part time employee for tasks such as filing, faxing, data entry, etc. Must be familiar with word, outlook and excel.

Contact Heather Schaible 714525-0036x204 or via email heather@sdsins.com.

MAKE $16K/MONTH PART TIME

Learn from & be mentored by local millionaire real estate investors. Learn how you can start and run your own business in real estate investing. Visit http://www.

CreatingInvestors.com for more information to apply.

6200 Career Opportunities P/T

INSURANCE, CLERICAL

Duties: filing, phones, sevicing requests. Requirements: basic math, grammatical and word processing skills. Pay rate: based on experience. Hours: Part time, flexible. Please fax your resume (714) 526-9390, email: jcleeds@concentric.net

Hey Titans!

RuffaloCODY is looking for confident, dependable and personable individuals to work as part time fund raisers for reputable non-profit organizations, such as Stanford, Lucille Packard Childrens Fund, Marymount College, UC Berkeley, and Boalt Hall School of Law. Our benefits include: -Afternoon/Evening Schedules (4-5 hour shifts) Sunday-Thursday (Weekends Optional) -Hour base wage + attendance bonuses=$10.00 -Tuition Assistance -Located near campus (2 miles) -Great resume builder -Flexible Scheduling, SCHOOL first!

-Opportunity to enhance communication and negotiation skills -Gain professional experience and contact opportunities -Work with other students -Paid holidays and personal time after 90 days CALL 714-738-1937 OR E-mail US AT ANDREW.BREWER@RUFFALOCODY.COM Member of the following organizations: NACAC, ATFE, NCNS, NIC and NSFRE

PART TIME Work at private lake w/boating in Yorba Linda. Boathouse positions available. Will train. Must be customer service oriented, motivated, w/CA Drivers license. $7.25-$7.75/hour.

Minutes from CSUF. Shifts available: Saturdays & Sundays 7am – 3:30pm and 12pm-7:30pm.

East Lake Village, 5325 Village Center Drive.

779-0657.

Applications required. Ask for Jeff or Susan.

PART/TIME Private Gym Front Desk Receptionist - Looking for a customer service oriented and motivated individual. Shifts available: Mondays & Wednesdays, 11am-4:30pm. $7.25 - $7.75 per hour. Applications required and available at 5325 Village Center Drive, Yorba Linda.

Just minutes from CSUF. Questions - please contact Susan or Jeff at 714-779-0657.

Earn $2500+ a month and more to type simple ads online. www.dataentrytypers.com.

3800 Miscellaneous

DRIVING LESSONS

Offering behind-the-wheel training for a class C driver’s license. Ask for student discount. Lic. #I4027008. Ask for Glen (714) 595-1541.

6400 Childcare Offered/Wanted Child care 2 kids. Get to/ from school, homework, laundry, lite cleaning Trabuco Canyon/ RSM area. Call Larry @ (949) 2333140. (949) 233-3140

7400 Houses for Rent/Sale

Home For Rent 4 Bedroom. 3.5 Bath. 2,500 sq. ft. Garage. $80k in remodel. All new granite countertops in kitchen and bath. Covered patio. Culdasac. 2325 Carlen, Placentia.

Call Mike 714-870-1700.

Condo near CSUF for rent. 3 bed, 2.5 bath, fireplce, 2-car garage with laundry, pool and spa, custom tile and newer carpets. Large master bed w/ large mirroored closets. 366-7207.

7600 Room for Rent NEW HOME + FREE INTERNET 2.5 miles from CSUF. $525 / mo + $199 deposit. Female preferred. No pets. Discount with lease. 714-879-2649

7700 Roommates-Private Room

Fully-Furnished Condo

Why rent when you can own your own place just 10 minutes from campus! This furnished 1 bedroom, 2 bathroom condo with a big screen TV is ready for you to move in immediately. All appliances. Laundry room with washer and dryer, fireplace in livingroom and 1 car garage. Did we mention the pool? Call Tom for price and further info (818) 450-2048.

7700 Roommates-Private Room QUIET GATED COMMUNITY Share 2BR/2BA Placentia condo $850, 1/2 utilities, $500 dep. Near 57/91/55 frws, non smoker. (562) 787-5161.

NEED A PLACE TO STAY Looking for a room to rent.

Near campus. With femles only.

Contact Info: RCB152353@ student.fullerton.edu

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October 2, 2006

SPORTS

Soccer Picks Up 1-0 Overtime Win

BY ALVIN ANOL

BY AARON HOLTSCLAW

Daily Titan Staff Writer sports@dailytitan.com

With the chance to end a fourmatch losing streak and the opportunity to create a fresh start in an entirely new season, junior forward Brianna Buffington drilled a ball to the top right corner of the net, and past the outstretched arms of UC Riverside goalie Tawny Poggio.

“To be honest, all I was thinking was that I had to get it on my right foot,” Buffington said.

The Cal State Fullerton women’s soccer team opened Big West Conference play with a 1-0 double overtime victory over UC Riverside on Sunday in a rematch of last year’s Big West Conference Championship.

“It went a lot longer than we wanted it to, but Riverside is such a great team,” said CSUF Head Coach Ali Khosroshahin. “It’s such a rivalry.

It’s always a nail-biter.”

The Titans improved their record to 5-5-1 overall, while the Highlanders fell to 7-4 overall.

It was a refreshing change of pace for Fullerton, which had lost its four previous matches.

The most noticeable statistic for the Titans was in the shot category.

Having been outshot in their last nine games, CSUF had 14 shots compared to nine for UC Riverside.

CSUF’s increased pressure on offense helped take the load off senior goalkeeper Karen Bardsley.

“It’s so much easier to focus on helping other players when I don’t have as much to do,” Bardsley said.

“We didn’t panic when things got bad – which they rarely did – so it was kind of nice,” Bardsley said. “We could have finished a little bit more, a little bit better, but besides that it was great.”

Bardsley made five saves on the night for her fourth shutout of the season.

“I’m very pleased with everyone’s play,” Khosroshahin said. “We took care of the ball better than we have

Titans Volleyball Squad Upset by Aggies at Home Daily Titan Staff Writer sports@dailytitan.com

Cal State Fullerton (13-3 overall) fell to UC Davis [2-14 overall] in four games (30-27, 30-23, 24,30, 33-31) in a non-conference game Friday.

Titan Head Coach Carolyn Zimmerman said that she wasn’t roo happy.

“We played high error volleyball and played scared, we scared ourselves,” Zimmerman said. “Davis wanted to win tonight.”

The Aggies took control late in the first game, which was close until the end. Davis ended up with the 30-27 win in a game that featured no aces and two serving errors for both teams.

A Game 1 highlight was senior Breanna Trudeau diving into the scoring table to save a ball that was headed out. Sophomore Brittany

By karl thunman/Daily Titan FIRST LEG IN – Titan Candice Byler had the longer leg against UC Riverside’s Jenna Leonti in Sunday night’s match. all year. We got a lot of good looks at the goal tonight.”

The Titans were without senior captain Lauryn Welch, who was out

with a leg injury she suffered during a 2-1 loss to Arizona on Thursday.

Welch scored the lone goal against Arizona, but was hurt on the play

and did not return to that match.

The match between the two teams was the conference opener for both schools.

Moore had four kills in Game 1 to lead the Titans.

“You can’t blame Fullerton for the loss in Game 1, they didn’t play bad, Davis played good,” Patrick Alog, voice of Titan volleyball said.

Game 2 was all Aggies as they won the second game 30-23. They pulled ahead early and didn’t allow the Titans to come close. Titan libero Vanessa Vella had two kills in Game 2, including an amazing kick dig, for the Titans while Mounia Nihipali had the team’s only service ace.

The Titans came up with their only win of the night 30-24 in Game 3. Freshman Cari Bailey came in twice in the game to serve, notching no errors and one ace.

Titan freshman Deven Bukoski notched her team–leading seventh double double in Game 4 finishing the match with 16 kills and 21 digs.

“We picked it up in the third game,” Bukoski said. “We need to refocus on what we are doing.”