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DailyThe Student Voice of California StateTitan University, Fullerton University Offers Services and Programs For Pregnant Students time off from school Although Schultz and many of until after she receives the expecting mothers do not an- her degree. ticipate on taking any time off, “Because the baby the university’s Continuous Resi- is due right around dence Regulations offers a stop-out Thanksgiving, I am which allows for undergraduate stu- hoping that she will dents to be absent for one semester. come early so that “With certain exceptions, stu- I can have the baby dents may be absent for one semes- during fall recess,” ter and maintain their continuing Schultz said. student status,” the policy found in “I adjusted my the university catalog states. schedule for allowing “This includes election of curricu- a lot of home time for lum requirements for graduation when the baby comes and eligibility to register for the next so I will be able to semester.” breastfeed and be Should students require more there.” than one semester off, they may re- By DAVID OSborne/Daily Titan Schultz is among quest a leave of absence. 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. some students on A leave of absence may be given campus who chose to students with documented ex- to continue attend- tenuating circumstances and is not ing classes through- normally is granted for more than out their pregnancy one year, the policy states. Forgiveness and Faith despite the added “Such an approved leave of challenges that it may absence authorizes the student By Suzanne Sullivan/Daily Titan bring. to return without reapplying to BABY ON BOARD - Pregnant 22-year-old finance When it comes to the university and continue un- student Katie Schultz poses for the camera. pregnant students on der the catalog requirements that Forge a Life After Horror campus, the univer- applied to the semester prior to the Immaculee Ilibagiza had to go through this genocide,” Campus offers help with sity has no written policy on how an absence.” Ilibagiza said at the start of the dis- expecting mother should go about Although the university sees details her experience of disabled parking and Sometimes I thank cussion. “If I can reach out to an- managing school. pregnancy as a personal matter, it the Rwandan genocide “ other human being, then it will be comfortable furniture The university considers preg- does provide accommodations for God that I had to go worth it.” nancy a personal matter, leaving expecting mothers who seek them. through this genocide. While hiding in the bathroom, students to decide on their own how Among these special accommoda- By Joey T. English By NORALY HERNANDEZ If I can reach out to Ilibagiza said she learned English they balance school and their preg- tions are limited parking privileges Daily Titan Staff Writer

Daily Titan Staff Writer [email protected] “one word by one word” through a nancy. and more comfortable furniture another human being,

[email protected] then it will be worth it. dictionary she had requested from In addition, CSUF does not provided through the Office of Dis- Rwandan genocide survivor Im- the pastor. At that time, she felt she Eight months from now 22-year- “ keep track of pregnant students abled Student Services and guid- maculee Ilibagiza spoke Thursday would need to know the language to old Katie Schultz will become a – Immaculee Ilibagiza on campus because most expect- ance and counseling through the at the Irvine campus not only of the tell her story if she survived. Cal State Fullerton graduate. Two Rwandan Genocide Survivor ing mothers make their own ar- Student Health and Counseling horror she witnessed during the mass During her painful experience, months from now she will become rangements and accommodations Center. murder, but of the forgiveness and Ilibagiza said her faith in God gave a mother. without notifying the university, At the Student Health Center, love she discovered for those whom her the strength to survive and the “We were planning on having and the majority Hutus, who held health educator Bonnie White said. students who believe they are preg- sought to kill her. willingness to forgive the killers. kids right after I graduated,” Schultz the power. In her experience, like Schultz, nant are first given a free pregnancy Around 300 people from the lo- Ilibagiza said she only had a Bible said. “It was going to happen soon “After that, the Hutus started kill- most pregnant students want to con- test. cal community and university filled to read in the bathroom and a rosary but not during school.” ing,” Ilibagiza said in an interview tinue attending classes, said Director If the pregnancy is desired, they the campus’s atrium for Ilibagiza’s that her father had given her when Schultz said she learned she was before the lecture. of Academic Advisement Bridget are also offered health care options speech, which was followed by audi- she last said goodbye to him. expecting during the spring semester “There were no jobs anymore. Driscoll. for insurance through the county as ence questions and a book signing of “I was saying the Lord’s prayer and was concerned about the com- The only job was going and killing “In the situations I have been well as counseling through the coun- her New York Times best seller “Left 100 times a day,” Iligabiza said. plications that could arise due to her Tutsis.” involved in, most of the mothers seling center, White said. to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Yet, the Lord’s Prayer did not pregnancy. Over the next three months, want to stay in school so I work “I had insurance through the Rwandan Holocaust.” come easy for Ilibagiza. “I was worried about morning Ilibagiza, who is a Tutsi, spent 91 with them to develop a plan of ac- school and so I went to the health Ilibagiza explained to the audi- “How can you forgive someone sickness and going to classes,” she days hiding in a pastor’s cramped tion for academic and physiological department and they gave me a ence that she had left the university who is killing you?” she said, noting said. “I had a few hard days but for bathroom with seven other women success,” Driscoll wrote in an e-mail brochure on being pregnant and she attended to spend the Easter that the prayer commands forgive- the most part I wasn’t sick at all. It while Hutu extremists embarked on interview. steps that I needed to take and they holidays with her family on April 6, ness for those who “trespass against” has been a really easy pregnancy ac- a killing spree. Nearly one million “Of course at the end of the se- referred me to some OB/GYN,” 1994. her. “To me, at that moment, the tually.” people, mostly Tutsis, were killed in mester my students love it when Schultz said. That same day, Rwandan Presi- Hutus were animals.” Although Schultz did not plan on the genocide – including Ilibagiza’s they read the last page of the test that dent Juvenal Habyarimana was having children before she graduat- mother, father and two of her three wishes them a safe, speedy delivery killed. The assassination triggered ed, she does not plan on taking any and a healthy, happy child.” SEE PREGNANCY - PAGE 2 brothers, she said. ethnic tensions between the Tutsis “Sometimes I thank God that I SEE SURVIVOR- PAGE 2 Proceedings for Student Accused of Son’s Death Set for November By Adam Levy ance to the proceedings, set for While incarcerated, the A CSUF student and long-time Daily Titan News Editor Nov. 17. Kenya native has been un- friend of the Omondi family, speak- [email protected] The 35-year-old mechanical en- der evaluation in the medical ing under the condition of anonym- gineering major turned himself in ward, clad in only a gown, ity, attended the proceedings. The wheels of the justice sys- to the Fullerton Police Department according to Orange County Sher- She described Omondi as tem continued to turn in the case on the evening of Sept. 10, allegedly iff’s authorities. a “nice, warm hearted, kind” of Gideon Walter Omondi, the notifying the officers on duty that Omondi, clothed in an orange man who was “always smiling.” Cal State Fullerton student who al- he had drowned his son Richard in jumpsuit with an ash gray under- She vividly recalled memories of his legedly drowned his four-year-old the bathtub of his Fullerton apart- shirt, was escorted into the court son as “bright, spunky, fun [and] ex- son. ment. holding cell Friday morning at 9:25 troverted,” while “showing leadership Omondi, charged with first-de- Officers at the scene found the a.m. qualities [when] talking to other gree murder, was arraigned at the Or- child’s body tucked into his bed and He spent five minutes conferring kids.” ange County Superior Court, North took him to Placentia-Linda with Speiser, who subsequently ex- If convicted, Omondi could be Justice Center Fullerton Friday Hospital, where he was pronounced pressed her disenchantment of Judge eligible for the death sentence or life morning. dead. Roger B. Robbins’ decision to allow in prison without parole, though no Senior Deputy District Attorney The boy’s mother, Helen Omon- media to photographically docu- formal decision has been announced Steve McGreevy represented the di, declined to be interviewed. ment the arraignment inside the by the District Attorney’s Office at By ADAM LEvY/Daily Titan prosecution, while Deputy Public Since his Sept. 12 arraignment, courtroom. this time. COURTROOM DRAMA - Gideon Omondi (center) watches on at his Defender Arlene Speiser spoke on Omondi has been held without bail The Daily Titan was the only “That determination on whether arraignment on Friday as his Public Defender Arlene Speiser (right) asks the Omondi’s behalf. at the Orange County Jail in Santa news media present at the dealings. or not to seek the death penalty has judge for a continuance. The CSUF student is in custody on first-degree mur- Both sides agreed to a continu- Ana. Speiser declined to be interviewed. yet to be made,” McGreevy said. der charges for the Sept. 10 drowning of his son Richard.

Tomorrow The Hub ONLINE www.dailytitan.com weather OKTOBERFEST EXCLUSIVES TODAY TOMorrow Article explores festivities happening around the area as GRADUATE FAIR draws students interested is post-grad Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy well as the festival itself. studies and internships. High: 76 High: 71 Low: 58 Low: 54 OC REGISTER PANEL discusses the future of journalism. 2 October 2, 2006 In Brief CAMPUS CALENDAR SURVIVOR: of Rwandan Genocide Speaks to CSUF (From Page One) “I remember looking at my hands this country. Everybody was busy story as an example for others to fol- TUESDAY and thinking, ‘the biologists who watching that.” low. But Ilibagiza said her faith allowed have been telling us that we have Nicole Brown Simpson was found “The way she has learned to for- HAN ZI REINVENTED: The Rhythm of Chinese her to let go of her anger and forgive. this bone here and here’ –” she dead on June 12, 1994, which ignit- give is very special,” he said. Script exhibition opens at noon in the main gallery of “I knew that they didn’t know what said, pointing to various bones on ed the widely publicized trial about “A lot of Rwandans who went the Visual Arts building. This ongoing exhibit displays they were doing. There was a blind- her body – “They are right!” It was two months after the genocide be- through the genocide and lost family ness behind them.” one of the few times the audience gan. Ilibagiza believed the timing members still have a lot of bitterness the importance of Chinese character in art. The exhibi- After the genocide ended, Ilibagiz- laughed. of these events was planned by “the and a lot of hate. But through her tion is scheduled to run daily through Oct. 13. ia visited a prison in Rwanda and She told the audience that “geno- devil” to hide the genocide from story, a lot of them are now starting came face-to-face with the man who cide is an elevated level of hatred” Americans, she said. to change.” had killed her father. and that the best way she knew to Paul Rudatsikira, a Rwandan Melody Mangrello, a graduate “The Integrated Mother” author, Michelle Dortch will “I told him ‘I forgive you’ – it just prevent such an atrocity is through genocide survivor himself who at- student at Cal State Fullerton who speak about dealing with life in times of chaos at noon came out of my mouth,” Ilibagizia compassion and love. tended the event, said he escaped attended the event, said, “You find said. “The most important lesson I to America just after the genocide yourself speechless because you’re in University Hall 205. Leaving the bathroom and step- learned during this whole thing I began. so wowed by the experience of ev- ping outside left Ilibagiza to wonder went through is just to be there and “When we would turn on the erything she went through and over- if she had endured the apocalypse, reach out to another person and love news [in America], it was O.J. Simp- came.” The Symphonic Band perform some of their classic she said. them,” Ilibagiza said. son 24 hours a day,” Rudatsikira Ilibagiza said she wanted her book work, including John Zdechilk’s “Chorale and Shaker “The whole country was full of An audience member asked said. to send a message of hope and love. Dance” at 8 p.m. in the Meng Concert Hall. Tickets dead bodies. I had lost friends, I had Ilibagiza why the genocide failed to Meanwhile, he said his family re- She ended the discussion to a stand- lost family and I was completely a make headline news. ceived calls every day that another ing ovation when she said, “You are $10 for the general public, $5 advance purchase for skeleton.” “I ask myself that question,” family member had been killed. “It don’t have to go through what I senior citizens and students with CSUF ID. Ilibagiza said she went into the Ilibagiza replied. “When it was hap- was a huge disconnect,” he said. went through to know you have the bathroom at 125 pounds and came pening in Rwanda, this was the time Rudatsikira, who knows Ilibagi- possibilities and the freedom to be out at 65 pounds. when O.J. Simpson was big news in za as a friend, said he sees her OK.” WEDNESDAY Writing for creativity and healing workshop begins at noon in the Women’s Center UH 205. Attendees will PREGNANCY: University helps out students (From Page One) population on campus is small and sibility, Park said she was subject matter and finds no real problem be encouraged to write in journaling, poetry or fiction publicizing these services may not be to some looks and even judgmen- with the way the university handles style to cope with a loss or painful events. Through the Disabled Student feasible. tal comments from it. Services, students can also receive Lauren Park, peers. Bredin, who was pregnant during accommodations to help them a piano perfor- “I got a lot of looks her graduate studies, explained that “Rally Against Hate” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Quad. throughout their pregnancy, said mance major, was “Most of the mothers mostly from women, although pregnant students may face Elizabeth Buchanan, alternate media also unaware of not even men, when- some obstacles, including more criti- format and special program special- available accom- want to stay in school ever I was in a place cal professors, good time manage- Men’s soccer vs. Cal State Northridge. Game starts at ist said. modations but so I work with them like an elevator or in ment will help lessen the pressure. 7 p.m. “For instance, a student might be finds them helpful to develop a plan of a hallway,” Park said. Senior Frank Aceves, although in a classroom with a small desk, so nevertheless. “I don’t know if mostly unfamiliar with what accom- we could provide a chair and a table “Something I action for academic and it was out of curios- modations are available for pregnant

THURSDAY for her classes,” Buchanan wrote in think the univer- physiological success. ity but people would students, finds the listed accommo-

CSUF jazz performers play the works of Fred Sturm, an e-mail interview. sity could improve stop and stare as if dations to be relatively adequate. “Also, we do issue a Disabled Per- on is accommoda- I was some kind of “Pregnancy is not necessarily dis- – Bridget Driscoll “ Thad Jones and George Stone at 8 p.m. in the Meng sons Parking Permit for pregnant tions for women Director of Academic Advisement anomaly.” ability,” Aceves said referring to the Concert Hall. Tickets are $15 to the general public, students. This enables students to who have chil- Chair of women’s bounds of the accommodations park closer to her class.” dren,” Park said. studies program Re- made for pregnant students. $10 advance purchase for senior citizens and students If a student would like to receive “There is no nae Bredin said that “Pregnancy, regardless if it is with a CSUF ID. these accommodations she must fill place to change the way the univer- wanted or unwanted, it is a re- out an application at the Office of your baby’s diaper or sit down and sity handles pregnant women on sult of a personal choice; I don’t SUBMISSIONS: To have your event in The Daily Titan’s Calendar, Disabled Student Services. nurse. It’s really not a child-friendly campus is much the same way they know how much responsibility the please submit event information to [email protected] one week Furthermore, parking permits are campus in that way.” are treated in the workplace. She also school should take for students’ ac- prior to the date of event. given for the last four weeks of the Aside from the academic respon- agrees that pregnancy is a personal tions.” pregnancy after the student submits a physician’s note indicating her due For the Record date. Anyone who needs a parking per- It is the policy of the Daily Titan to correct any inaccurate informa- mit before the last four weeks can tion printed in the publication as soon as the error is discovered. Any apply for a temporary disabled park- incorrect information printed on the front page will result in a correction ing permit through the Department printed on the front page. Any incorrect information printed on any of Motor Vehicles, Buchanan said. other page will be corrected on page 2. Errors on the Opinion page will However, receiving these park- be corrected on that page. Corrections also will be noted on the online ing privileges was more troublesome version of the Daily Titan. than Eva Kammerer, 26, expected it Please contact Managing Editor Cindy Tullues at (714) 278-5693 or to be. at [email protected] with issues about this policy or to report any Kammerer, a human services ma- errors. jor who chose to have her two chil- dren while attending CSUF, learned of the temporary parking permits after her personal doctor ordered her to not exercise and recommended Daily Titan that she petition for one of the per- mits. Editorial She then submitted her doctor’s Executive Editor Julie Anne Ines note to the Office of Disabled Stu- Managing Editor Cindy Tullues dent Services but then had to submit Copy Chief Joe Simmons more paperwork since her original News Editor Adam Levy note was not sufficient. Asst. News Editor Jaime Cardenas Asst. News Editor Ian Hamilton “If you are pregnant and you are in Sports Editor Laurens Ong need or think you want the tempo- Entertainment Editor Kirsten Alto rary disability so you can park close Opinion Editor Carmellia Munguia by so you don’t walk so far, just make Introspect Editor Jickie Torres sure you provide all the documenta- Photo Editor Kevin Rogers Photo Editor Songha Lee tion to the Office of Disabled Stu- Copy Editor Ben Weiner dent Services right away,” Kammerer Internet Editor Grant Paulis said. “If you provide them with all Adviser Tom Clanin the information and the doctor’s let- Main Line (714) 278-3373 Editorial Fax (714) 278-4473 ter right away, then it shouldn’t be a News Line (714) 278-4415 E-mail: [email protected] problem.” Another service offered to wom- en is the campus Children’s Center Advertising where parents can drop off their Director of Advertising Emily Alford children while they attend classes. Asst. Director of Advertising Beth Stirnaman “I love the Children’s Center; I Ad Production Manager Keith Hansen Production Designer Frances Casareno would not have been able to come Classified Manager Rich Boyd back and go to school if it wasn’t for National Sales/Promotions Jackie Kimmel the Children’s Center,” Kammerer Assistant Promotions RoseAnne De Ramos said. Account Executive Kathleen Cisneros For students who are parents or Account Executive Stephanie Birditt Account Executive Layla Hanka are expecting, Kammerer recently Entertainment Account Executive Lesley Wu started a parenting support group. Entertainment Account Executive Sarah Oak “It is just a group to get together Webmaster Dan Beam with other parents and talk about Distribution Santana Ramos some of the issues like time man- Business Manager/Adviser Robert Sage agement, stress management and finding good child care,” Kammerer said. “It will be informal but infor- Main Line (714) 278-3373 Advertising Fax (714) 278-2702 mational.” Advertising (714) 278-4411 E-mail: [email protected] Kammerer was uninformed about The Daily Titan is a student publication, printed every Monday through Thursday. The all the services and accommoda- Daily Titan operates independently of Associated Students, College of Communications, tions available to pregnant students. CSUF administration and the CSUF System. The Daily Titan has functioned as a public She said that she’s satisfied with all forum since inception. Unless implied by the advertising party or otherwise stated, advertising in the Daily Titan is inserted by commercial activities or ventures identified the assistance given to expecting in the advertisements themselves and not by the university. Such printing is not to be mothers. Although she would like construed as written or implied sponsorship, endorsement or investigation of such com- to have been advised about these mercial enterprises. The Daily Titan allocates one issue to each student for free. services, she said that she under- Copyright ©2006 Daily Titan stands that the pregnant student 4 October 2, 2006 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 19 vote that authorizes 700 miles “We all know what this is about. The Bush administration failed the American people had given him jail free” card. 2006 has finally done something. of fencing on the 2,000-mile long It may be good politics, but it’s bad to get Osama bin Laden. It failed a mandate. If this nation wants to confront No, it hasn’t put together – let U.S.-Mexico border. immigration poli- to establish a de- It was an odd phrase for a man illegal immigration, its people alone vote on – the remaining 10 For those who don’t want to cy,” he said. mocracy in Iraq. who narrowly lost the popular vote, need to examine a number of is- or so budget bills it needs to as- bother with the math, we’ll help We couldn’t The wall seems more And it failed to but it played out as true – both sues. semble this year. – that’s just over a third of the agree more. come through for Congress and the Supreme Court We need to look at the impact of No, we still haven’t done any- stretch. The wall seems a symbol than a its own people in are stacked with conservatives. illegal employment in the agricul- thing with detainees at Gitmo yet. There’s no word on what the more a symbol solution, more about its most desperate Yet, despite the fact that his tural sector. What Congress has done was de- wall will be made of yet. We won- than a solution, politics than progress, time of need dur- party controls all three branches of We need to look at the impact of cide on what it wanted to do with der how hard it will be to burrow more about poli- more of a rallying cry ing Hurricane Ka- government, Bush has been unable free trade. Mexico. under or climb over. tics than prog- for a party going into trina. to find any meaningful responses to What we don’t need is a mean- Unfortunately, rather than build In an article on CNN.com, Sen. ress. It’s more of Coming into the challenges he has faced. ingless impediment – one that will bridges with Mexico and across Edward M. Kennedy calls the leg- a rallying cry for an election with the this presidency, These failures will be used as tin- simply be jumped over, dug under party lines, it seems that some in islation “a bumper sticker solution a party going into stain of failure the U.S. had a sur- der to burn the Republican Party at or moved around. the U.S. government would rather for a complex problem.” an election with plus in the budget. the stake in this election year, and And by creating such legisla- build walls. He further said that the bill is “a the stain of some Now, we’re losing they know it. tions, the Republican party is Before leaving Friday night, feel-good plan that will have little of the greatest failures in American money every fiscal year. So what does the GOP do? They merely draping a washcloth on the the Senate passed a bill in an 80- effect in the real world.” history on its hands. President Bush once said that play the immigration “get out of elephant in the room.

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Government keeps log of California enacted the Unclaimed not allowed to personally contact claims starting Jan. 1, 2007. forgotten treasures just Property Law in 1959, which pro- you.” Last year, the State spent almost waiting to be found hibited banks and other corpora- Though the state is unable to $900 million from unclaimed prop- tions from using money from un- contact individual owners, many erty accounts by depositing it into touched accounts. programs have been implemented the State’s General Fund and using by paolo andres “When a property owner to advertise the great number of the money just like any other rev- Daily Titan Staff Writer doesn’t touch their account for unclaimed properties. enue, according to the bill’s press re- [email protected] three years, it’s actually law that “The Controller has done an lease, of which, about $240 million the holder, whether it’s a bank amazing job of getting it out from was used to pay claims. The idea of vast riches and hid- or financial institution, to send city to city and trying to return the Westly and Migden proposed the den treasure has titillated man’s fan- that money to the state for safe- budget from unclaimed property bill to end this. tasies for countless ages. For many, keeping until the rightful owner back to people,” Casaleggio said. The bill is currently held on com- hidden treasures are only figments of of heir claims it,” said Garin Casa- “We’ve even updated our Web site mittee under submission. imagination; a fantasy along the lines leggio, spokesman for the Califor- to include the Spanish language.” of pirate adventures and treasure nia State Controller’s Office. Many hopeful individuals have maps. But hidden treasures do exist According to the Web site of the used online databases to look for – if people know where to look. State Controller’s office, there are opportunities in acquiring un- Unclaimed property is the quint- currently 7.6 million unclaimed claimed money. essential hidden treasure. Entangled accounts in the state. Last year, According to the association, within government bureaucracy, 239,000 people have claimed prop- many business firms have used the treasures of unclaimed money erties with an average worth of Freedom of Information Act to orders and tax refunds, along W h i t e $1,000 each. develop Web Sites to specifically with other unredeemed financial was in the pro- But by federal law, the state is search for lost properties for a fee. accounts, await those who know cess of building his dream unable to personally contact possi- Though the firms may notify where to look for them. home when the storm struck. Un- ble owners of unclaimed properties, individuals of legitimate property According to the National As- able to finish the job, White was contents of un- said Russ Lopez, communication claims, the association warns that all sociation of Unclaimed Property stranded in a trailer home. claimed deposit boxes. The funds director for the State Controller. the information can be acquired in Administrators, a non-profit orga- It was then when State treasurer obtained from the auctions are then “There are 7.6 million accounts in the state databases free of charge. nization affiliated with the National Tate Reeves, who runs the unclaimed kept for their original owners, ac- unclaimed property. Simply speak- Earlier this year, Steve Westly, Association of State Treasurers, these property division Mississippi, gave cording to the association’s Web ing: if we call one person, we’re go- California State Controller, and forgotten funds can come from un- White the news of his life. site. ing to have to call everybody. We Senator Carole Migden proposed cashed insurance refunds, traveler’s White is the recipient of $200,000 Some states have even turned to have a very small staff. It’s a logisti- legislation that would separate the checks, annuities, certificates of de- from 3,499 shares of Wachovia bank eBay to sell unclaimed items. cal impossibility,” Lopez said. unclaimed property account from posit, royalty payments, utility de- stock his father had secretly acquired Last year, over 1.3 million claims “What Steve Westly, the State the State’s general fund and also posits and contents of safe deposit some time ago. were paid to owners totaling at least Controller, has done is we have remove the restrictions on the State boxes. But surprisingly, despite hav- $1.2 billion, according to the asso- gone through out the state to pro- Controller’s ability to locate the Each state has enacted an un- ing enough money to continue his ciation. mote educational types of events,” owners of unclaimed properties. claimed property order that instructs dream home, White showed that his Many of the accounts contain Lopez said. The bill would also provide in- companies to turn in funds from for- great luck is only surpassed by his only a small amount of money from “But by federal statute, we are terest for all unclaimed property gotten accounts to state officials who greater generosity. certain overpaid items and uncashed then make an effort to return them “Most of it will go to St. Jude’s refunds, but a lucky few can look to their rightful owners or heirs, ac- Children’s Hospital in Mem- forward to a handsome bounty for cording to the association. phis – that’s where most of it will forgotten treasures. Most states hold the forgotten go,” White said in the Dateline Among the more impressive ac- funds until they are claimed, return- interview. “That’s the way I do, help counts are an 88-carat natural Blue ing them to the verified owner for a somebody who really needs help and Star sapphire ring worth $25,000, nominal fee upon filing the claim or those children are it.” according to the Associated Press. even for free. Currently, the state of California Many people are also richer than Because physically keeping all the possesses more than $4.8 billion they think. forgotten items from safety deposit worth of unclaimed property in the A Dateline report told of Gordon boxes is a huge task, many states forms of bank accounts, stocks and White, a Hurricane Katrina victim. hold periodic auctions to sell the other unaccounted properties. 6 October 2, 2006 SPORTS Titans Volleyball Squad Soccer Picks Up 1-0 Overtime Win Upset by Aggies at Home BY ALVIN ANOL Daily Titan Staff Writer BY AARON HOLTSCLAW Moore had four kills in Game 1 to [email protected] Daily Titan Staff Writer lead the Titans. [email protected] “You can’t blame Fullerton for the With the chance to end a four- loss in Game 1, they didn’t play bad, match losing streak and the oppor- Cal State Fullerton (13-3 overall) Davis played good,” Patrick Alog, tunity to create a fresh start in an fell to UC Davis [2-14 overall] in voice of Titan volleyball said. entirely new season, junior forward four games (30-27, 30-23, 24,30, Game 2 was all Aggies as they won Brianna Buffington drilled a ball to 33-31) in a non-conference game the second game 30-23. They pulled the top right corner of the net, and Friday. ahead early and didn’t allow the Ti- past the outstretched arms of UC Titan Head Coach Carolyn Zim- tans to come close. Titan libero Van- Riverside goalie Tawny Poggio. merman said that she wasn’t roo essa Vella had two kills in Game 2, “To be honest, all I was thinking happy. including an amazing kick dig, for was that I had to get it on my right “We played high error volleyball the Titans while Mounia Nihipali foot,” Buffington said. and played scared, we scared our- had the team’s only service ace. The Cal State Fullerton women’s selves,” Zimmerman said. “Davis The Titans came up with their soccer team opened Big West Con- wanted to win tonight.” only win of the night 30-24 in ference play with a 1-0 double over- The Aggies took control late in Game 3. Freshman Cari Bailey came time victory over UC Riverside on the first game, which was close un- in twice in the game to serve, notch- Sunday in a rematch of last year’s Big til the end. Davis ended up with the ing no errors and one ace. West Conference Championship. 30-27 win in a game that featured Titan freshman Deven Bukoski “It went a lot longer than we no aces and two serving errors for notched her team–leading seventh wanted it to, but Riverside is such a both teams. double double in Game 4 finishing great team,” said CSUF Head Coach A Game 1 highlight was senior the match with 16 kills and 21 digs. Ali Khosroshahin. “It’s such a rivalry. Breanna Trudeau diving into the “We picked it up in the third It’s always a nail-biter.” scoring table to save a ball that was game,” Bukoski said. “We need to The Titans improved their record headed out. Sophomore Brittany refocus on what we are doing.” to 5-5-1 overall, while the Highland- ers 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 of- fense 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.” By karl thunman/Daily Titan Bardsley made five saves on the FIRST LEG IN – Titan Candice Byler had the longer leg against UC Riverside’s Jenna Leonti in Sunday night’s match. night for her fourth shutout of the season. all year. We got a lot of good looks at with a leg injury she suffered during and did not return to that match. “I’m very pleased with everyone’s the goal tonight.” a 2-1 loss to Arizona on Thursday. The match between the two teams play,” Khosroshahin said. “We took The Titans were without senior Welch scored the lone goal against was the conference opener for both care of the ball better than we have captain Lauryn Welch, who was out Arizona, but was hurt on the play schools.