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But there Women’s Soccer DailyTitan could be cash out there that you Titans win 1-0 in overtime against www.dailytitan.comOnline don’t know about MONEY, p. 3 UC Riverside SPORTS, p. 6 Since 1960 Monday Volume 83, Issue 17 October 2, 2006 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.