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EDITORIAL: Lessons to be learned from INSIDE: SPORTS tragedy, page 6 Pair of Titans earn Big FEATURES: Students think big and start West honors, page 8 a small business, page 5 Since 1960 Volume 85, Issue 35 Tuesday April 14, 2009 DailyThe Student Voice of California StateTitan University, Fullerton DTSHORTHAND City Job Opportunites The Fullerton City Council is accepting applications for three advisory groups. ‘He knew what he was doing’ The General Plan Advisory Committee reviews General Plan goals and objectives. The Redevelopment and De- sign Review Committee advises on design issues involving proj- ects in any of the city’s redevel- opment areas. Applicants must have experience in architecture, landscaping or design. The Transporation and Circu- lation Commission provides in- put on matters dealing with pub- lc transportation and circulation systems, facilities, policies, plans and programs within the city. For more information call (714) 738-6350. Summer Registration Undergraduate and gradu- ate candidates for August 2009 graduation will be the first stu- dents allowed to start registering for summer classes April 15 due to state budget cutbacks. Summer class offerings will be significantly less than in recent summer sessions. Priority will be given to gradu- ation candidates, allowed an en- rollment limit of a maximum of 10 units. Additional student groups will be allowed an enroll- ment maximum of seven units. Students given registration ap- pointments will be allowed to waitlist a maximum of four units. Appointments for August 2009 candidates, can be viewed PHOTOS BY roberta mcmillan/For the Daily Titan in the Titan Online Student Courtney Stewart’s mother, Carrie Stewart-Dixon, addresses the media after the postponement of Andrew Gallo’s arraignment, Monday. Gallo is charged with three counts of second-degree murder and four other charges. A car collision last week resulted in the death of Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart, Cal State Fullerton student Stewart and Arizona State University graduate Andrew Pearson. The crash left former Titan baseball player Jon Wilhite in Center starting this week, with critical condition. the first appointments times oc- curring Wednesday. Subsequent registration groups will be as- signed appointments subject to Charged with three counts of second-degree murder and class availability. For seniors, graduate students and Post Bac credential students, other charges, Andrew Gallo’s lawyer postpones arraignment registration begins Wednesday, April 22, and for juniors, registra- BY ROBERTA MCMILLAN AND STACEY WANG road. There was no reason for him to request to increase the bail amount. Maciha said. “The charges are well de- tion begins Wednesday, April 29. Daily Titan be on the road,” Stewart-Dixon said. Stewart-Dixon said she felt the served. (Gallo) did have a prior in the For all remaining CSUF [email protected] “I don’t know what we can do to three murder charges were appropri- court system before.” students, registration begins change it, but it’s something I’m defi- ate. Others said they felt no bail should Wednesday, May 6. It was an emotional encounter for nitely going to be working on ... he’s “Absolutely, absolutely. He knew have been set. For more information log on a mother to see the man police say escaped the law too many times.” what he was doing,” she said. “You can’t exactly get justice,” to www.summer.fullerton.edu. caused the death of her daughter. Public defense attorney Randall Vicki Maciha, senior victim advo- CSUF sophomore Hannah Gaines or call the registration helpline at Carrie Stewart-Dixon, whose said. “This shouldn’t happen (714) 278-7601. daughter died in a car crash early again. Him coming out (of Thursday morning, confronted jail) shouldn’t be a possibility.” Andrew Thomas Gallo as he stood Gaines, who was Stewart’s in the courtroom’s holding cage at “Stewart-Dixon said she was there in friend and sorority sister, not- Comm Mixer photo courtesy OF courtroom POOL the Orange County North Justice ed that the $2 million bail “is nothing.” Want to mix and mingle with Andrew Gallo stands in a caged holding Center Superior Court Monday, support of her daughter, Adenhart and “(Gallo) should be in there communication industry profes- area in a courtroom at the North County April 13. Justice Center Monday. for the rest of his life,” Jackie sionals? The 22-year-old Gallo is be- Pearson, as well as her efforts to see that “ Adishian, Stewart’s roommate Come by the Entertainment ing charged with three counts and sorority sister, said. The and Tourism Club’s 4th Annual of second-degree murder and the law does not let other families down by CSUF senior added, “(We) “Walk of Fame” Industry Mixer. four other charges in a suspected still can’t bring (Courtney) It will be held in CSUF’s TSU Pa- DUI hit-and-run that caused the putting drunk drivers back on the streets. back.” vilion A, Tuesday, April 21 from deaths of Cal State Fullerton stu- In addition to the three 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. dent Courtney Stewart, 20, Hen- second-degree murder charg- The mixer is a formal cocktail ry Pearson, 25, and Los Angeles Longwith asked the arraignment to cate for Mothers Against Drunk Driv- es, Gallo was also charged with DUI event where drinks and catered Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart, 22. be postponed until June 8. ing, echoed the same sentiment. with bodily injury, having a blood al- food will be provided. It will be a Jon Wilhite, a CSUF graduate and After Judge Roger B. Robbins ap- “The recidivism (of drunk drivers) cohol level of more than 0.08 percent, great opportunity for students to the sole survivor who was in the car proved the request, Susan Price, an is so high. We’re saddened this has hit-and-run with bodily injury and network with tons of profession- Stewart was driving, remains in seri- Orange County deputy District At- affected another group of families,” driving with a suspended license. als from the television, movie, ous condition. Gallo’s stepbrother torney of the homicide unit, asked for music, event, and sports fields, Raymond Rivera, who was riding in an increase in the bail amount to $2 get all your questions answered Gallo’s passenger seat, was treated for million due to Gallo being a flight risk and even find possible intern- minor injuries. and his prior DUI record. ships. “As much as I don’t like being in “What this indicates to the people The event is free for members, the spotlight, I’m doing this for her,” in our position is that one, he’s a flight and tickets for non-members are Stewart-Dixon said. “I didn’t want to look at him, but as soon as I walked in, risk; and two, endangerment to the $15 presale and $20 at the door. A note for Nick Adenhart rests at a safety of the people,” Price said. For more information email makeshift memorial outside of Angel’s I just wanted to let him see her mom. Gallo, who was found two miles [email protected]. Stadium. I stood up, looked right at him, and I don’t know if I want to see him again, from the collision site on the 91 Free- but I wanted him to see her mom.” way shoulder, also attempted to flee Wearing a white long-sleeved but- from a police officer, Price said. WEATHER ton-down shirt, Gallo held his head “As far as his danger to the public, down as Stewart’s family and friends your honor, the defendant was on pro- TODAY piled into the front section of the bation at the time of this collision,” TOMorrow courtroom. Price said. “He knew those dangers Seventeen members of the group more than a defendant who would wore T-shirts with Stewart’s picture be similarly situated would because with the words, “In loving memory of his prior DUI occurred as a result of Courtney Frances Stewart.” The line a single vehicle collision.” High: 65 High: 63 of 17 held hands with Stewart-Dix- Prior to his current charges, the Low: 49 Low: 42 on at the front of the group as they prosecutor considered Gallo a “threat walked in. to society.” Gallo was placed on proba- PARTLY CLOUDY PARTLY CLOUDY Stewart-Dixon said she was there tion May 1, 2006 in San Bernardino in support of her daughter, Adenhart County for a misdemeanor DUI. His CONTACT US and Pearson, as well as her efforts to probation was extended when he did Main line: (714) 278-3373 see that the law does not let other not complete an alcohol awareness Deputy District Attorney Homicide Unit program, she added. News desk: (714) 278-4415 Susan Price addresses the media at a press families down by putting drunk driv- Advertising: (714) 278-4411 conference regarding the charges brought ers back on the streets. Upon hearing the prosecution’s ar- Courtney Stewart’s friends, Hannah Gaines and Jackie Adishian, attend Andrew Gallo’s E-mail: [email protected] against Gallo. “It sickens me that he was on the gument, Judge Robbins accepted the court date. 2 PAGE TWO April 14, 2009 IN OTHER NEWS INTERNATIONAL Radical Islamists claim attack on U.S. soldiers BAGHDAD (MCT) – A radical Islamist group thought to be a front for al-Qaida in Iraq has claimed responsibility for a Friday suicide bombing that killed five U.S. soldiers in the northern city of Mosul. The attack, the single deadliest on Americans here in more than a year, also killed two Iraqi national police officers. In statements posted Monday on extremist Web sites, the Islamic State of Iraq said it planned and carried out the bombing.