CSULB American Indian Stud-ies blindfolded the Prospector Pete statue late last Wednesday to pro-mote Genocide Awareness Week.

The university approved both the blindfold and the artwork to go along with the series of events in recognition of Native Ameri-can Heritage Month according to American Indian Studies Program Director Craig Stone.

“It’s definitely not guerilla tac-tics,” said Ashley Glenesk, the vice president of the American Indian Student Council.

CSULB itself stands on the grounds of the indigenous Tongva nation and specifically the Puvunga burial site where many artifacts of the culture have been found, said James Manseau Sauceda, the direc-tor of Multicultural Affairs.

If little else, it was hoped it would provoke “a positive conversation,” Sauceda said. “It’s a history people literally walk over.”

Stone said that the blindfold cov-ering Prospector Pete’s eyes acts as a metaphor to how many people will turn a blind eye to the brutal crimes done towards the indigenous people by the “Forty-Niners” during the Gold Rush.

This is especially evident with the plaque the AIS placed that says “Blind to History: 1846-1873” with the date being a direct reference to Brendan C. Lindsay’s Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide, 1846-1873, Stone said.

Over the course of the month there will be a variety of events and panels including the ‘When was the first time you heard about heard about the California Indian Genocide?’ panel Nov. 9 to dis-cuss the feelings and the hardships Native Americans today face, the ‘Rock your Mocs’ where students are supposed to wear moccasins from Nov. 8-15 and finally a ‘Flash Mob Community Drum’ to explore the indigenous cultural music on Nov. 30.

Yasmin Cortez also contributed to this article.

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Welcome to the Culture Corner, a recurring series focused on the homesickness, culture collision and assimilation that California State University, Long Beach’s internation-al students experience. It’s a chance to learn about another culture and see your own through a different pair of eyes.

International student, Johannes Schoster from Germany is back in America for another semester visit during his graduate studies. Schoster

had visited CSULB as an internation-al student while pursuing his bache-lor’s degree a few semesters prior.

While Schoster loves San Diego beaches and the Vegas nightlife, he still enjoys campus life at CSULB. The Daily 49er spoke to Schoster about his transition to the Beach and his views on the current refugee situ-ation involving his home country.

Thick clusters of golden flags flut-ter in the breeze, dug into grass ad-jacent to a blindfolded Prospector Pete. The plaque at the 49er mascot’s feet reads: “Blind to history 1846-1873.” The clusters of flags dwindle as the eye travels, until sparse yellow is drowning in a sea of green.

The flags are part of a demonstra-tion assembled by the American In-dian Student Council in honor of Na-

tive American Heritage Month.November is Native American

Heritage Month, which will be ob-served with four weeks of events hosted by the American Indian Stu-dent Council, American Indian Sci-ence and Engineering, and the Amer-ican Indian Studies Program.

This week’s event, titled “Genocide Awareness Week,” aims to redefine how students and faculty at Califor-nia State University, Long Beach, in-terpret the genocide of California’s indigenous peoples.

Student member of the American Indian Student Council Miztlayolxo-chitl Aguilera said that the display of varying flags represented the “three Californias”; an idea symbolizing three eras within California, defined by the acts of settlers and their impact on indigenous peoples. The first Cal-

American Indian History Month observed with a display representing the decimation of California’s indigenous people.

Blind to American genocide

By Miranda Andrade-CejaStaff Writer

International student goes back to the Beach for some more fun in the sun.

Round two at The Beach

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The Prospector Pete statue outside Language Arts 5 has been blindfolded since late last Wednesday night. American Indian Studies also placed a plaque beneath Pete with a sign that reads “Blind to history 1846-1873.”

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Education English and History major Johannes Schoster, 25, is an international student from Münster, Germany.

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“It’s fair to make it equal for every student instead of making

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—Alexandria Edwards, junior, Graphic Design

“It depends on the intention since it is a political issue. It’s just for reimbursements then that’s not good, but if it’s not

then that’s great.”

—Tina Phan, senior, Journalism

“I feel like it’s a legitimate re-quest but he also knew the

situation prior to be elected. As a former president of associated students, it leads me to question is this just about reimbursement or helping the California State

school as a whole?”

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How do you feel about boC potentially CHanging tHe way asi exeCutiVes are paid? Board of Controls and Associated Students Inc. are considering compensating future ASI officers with a scholarship instead of a fellowship. Current ASI president Jose Salazar is an

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Association of Computing Ma-chinery hacked its way into next spring’s event schedule when the As-sociated Students, Inc. Board of Con-trol allocated $5,364 for the 24-hour “Beach Hacks” event.

The BOC also approved grants, discussed travel rates and postponed proposals for budgets on Tuesday.

Aerospace Engineering major Faiqa Anbreen was approved for a $400 travel grant to go to the 68th an-nual meeting of the American Physi-

cal Society Division of Fluid Dynam-ics. Anbreen has been working on research that she will be presenting at the meeting in Boston in late No-vember. Her research includes an air-borne wind turbine that is capable of propelling a boat that she designed.

“It’s going to cover a part of [my travels] and the registration fee,” An-breen said. “I’m very thankful for for the student incorporations. It’s really good that they’re helping students ... $400 is a lot and I’m very thankful.”

The BOC also discussed travel rates in preparation for a vote at next week’s meeting. The proposal is to increase the amount of money ASI will refund for traveling by 14 cents to 57.5 cents per mile, ASI Treasurer Wendy Lewis said.

“The cap will be on the amount of miles or radius that we are going to refund,” Lewis said. “We didn’t change it. It’s still going to be 300 [miles] it’s going to be 150 each way.”

BOC approved a request for $176

for the 3D scanning of Native Ameri-can artifacts for the LAN-270 Reburi-al Project for and a Facility Fee reduc-tion request of $700 for the Campus Couture fashion show. LAN-270 is an excavation site on campus off of Beach Dr. near the International House.

Postponed for next meeting was the African Student Union funds af-ter not having a detailed proposal for the month long series of events for Black History Month.

A male student reported his laptop was stolen from the men’s locker in the Kinesiology building on Tuesday, Goodwin said. The re-porting party states that he left his

laptop in the locker overnight and it was gone the next day. There was no sign of a forced entry. University Police don’t have any details on the laptop.

Another student reported his bike stolen at the East Turn on Tuesday. The victim locked his bike, valued at $300, with a cable lock around 5 p.m. The bike was not registered with University Police.

A female student reported an incident of sexual battery at the Nugget the night of Oct. 27. A male subject allegedly rubbed his body on the female’s body, Goodwin said. University Police determined the male suspect is not a continu-ing threat because this is first in-cident with the suspect, but detec-tives are currently investigating the incident.

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University Police arrested a man Thursday for going into the women’s restroom in various locations on cam-pus, according to Lt. Richard Goodwin of University Police. The suspect, Justin Robert Wong, is believed to be in con-nection to the previous incidents post-ed on the Oct. 5 Crime Bulletin on the University Police’s website.

According to the Crime Bulletin, on Sept. 28 a female student reported

hearing a male voice say to her “you should wear a pantyhose with that dress” while she was sitting in a wom-en’s restroom stall. On Oct. 1, three female students reported witnessing a man going into the women’s restroom in the Kinesiology building and later in the University Student Union.

Police booked Wong at the Long Beach City Jail and charged him with the misdemeanor of entering a pub-lic restroom designated for use by the opposite sex. Wong also has an active warrant in Riverside, California, and is currently being held under this war-rant. Police do not have any further information regarding his warrant, Goodwin said.By Ross Siev

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Sexual battery at the Nugget

Man arrested for repeatedly going into women’s restrooms

Withdrawing consent

A 17-year-old female student report-ed an incident of sexual battery at Los Cerritos Hall on Saturday, Goodwin said. When the reporting party with-drew her consent for sexual activity, the 18-year-old male student reported-ly stopped. The victim does not desire prosecution, but University Police is currently investigating the incident.

Grand theft auto at parking structure 1

A victim of grand theft auto re-ported that his car was stolen in Parking Structure 1 on Thursday. The victim reportedly parked his car in the southwest corner of the structure at 8:10 a.m. When he re-turned to his parking spot at 2:15 p.m., the car was gone. Goodwin describes the stolen car as a purple 2000 Acura Integra.

Petty thefts continue

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A female student reported an incident of sexual battery at the Nugget Grill and Pub last Tuesday.

What kind of life did you live in Germany versus the life you live here?

In Germany, I went to school and went home, but here my life’s one big vacation. People here are very nice and warm but also very emotional and senseless. Germans don’t get a lot of nice weather, so they’re cold, straightforward and rational.

Where have you travelled? I was in Denmark, Sweden, Bel-

gium, Austria, Netherlands, Hunga-ry, Singapore, and Malaysia.

Do Germans travel more than Americans?

Europeans in general travel more than Americans, but America is so big and they have so many states to visit within the country.

What are your favorite places to travel to?

Budapest, it has a very old kind of feeling to it, and a really nice

river.

How does news media here differ from news media in Germany?

Our news is influenced by Amer-ica’s point of view, but all news is controlled by the government, so it’s really hard to tell. I just know to be very skeptical when I see or hear anything on the news.

How politically active are stu-

dents in Germany versus students in America?

We are taught about politics in grade school, so we have a good understanding of how politics work at a young age.

How does the American univer-sity learning system differ from Germany?

In Germany, you are not required to go to class, you could skip when-ever you want, and just show up for the final. In America, you have to do group work and show up to class everyday, or fail. I generally like the German education system better.

What is the Pop culture like? Movies: American films are really

popular in Germany, almost more so

than German productions.Music: We mostly listen to Amer-

ican Music, we also love Michael Jackson.

Nightlife: While the clubs here close at 2 a.m., German clubs close at 6 a.m.

What is your stance on the refu-gee situation?

I think we have the refugee situation because of American and European Politics. We all went to war in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and those kinds of countries. So we are kind of responsible for the situation. But I think all European countries should take in refugees, not just Germany. But not everyone wants to take them, like England and Italy.

Some people say that the refugee

situation is being exploited by people who only want easy access to European citizenship. What do you think?

Well maybe refugees from Alba-nia are unnecessary because there is no war in Albania, but the other 80 percent to 90 percent are real refugees who need help because they’re running away from war.

How do you feel about high taxes?

For me, paying low taxes would be easier for me to build a business, but if I look at the bigger picture, higher taxes makes things easier for everyone and it helps provide free education.

High taxes work out in the end because it provides better infra-structure.

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New in paperbacks: John Branch’s ‘Boy on Ice’“Boy on Ice” by John Branch,

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death of hockey enforcer Derek Boogaard, who died at the age of 28 from an overdose of alcohol and painkillers. Branch exam-ines Boogaard’s unlikely rise to hockey, the contrast between his friendly nature off the ice with his fist-fighting prowess on it and the widespread impact injuries and concussions had on his life.

“10:04: A Novel” by Ben Lerner,

Picador, 245 pages, $16In the past year of his life, the

33-year-old narrator of “10:04” has achieved unlikely literary success and been diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition. Even stranger, his best friend has asked him to help her conceive via in vitro fertilization. In a New York City undergoing large unrest, he must reconcile the prospects of mortality with that of fatherhood.

“Without You, There Is No Us” by Suki Kim, Broadway, 309 pages,

$15Kim details her time teaching

upper-class boys in North Korea during the last six months of Kim Jong-il’s reign. Kim looks at the structured nature of the boys’ lives, the songs they’re required to sing about the dictator and whether the gulf between North Korea and the outside world can ever really be bridged.

“Napoleon: A Life” by Andrew Roberts, Penguin, 926 pages, $20

Roberts uses the recent pub-

lication of 33,000 of Napoleon’s letters, travels to 53 of 60 battle sites as well as St. Helena, site of his exile, to help flesh out this look at Napoleon’s life. Roberts shows Napoleon as a decisive leader who was surprisingly willing to forgive friends and foes, and as someone who understood the importance of spinning his own narrative through his memoirs.

“Mighty, Mighty: A Novel” by Wally Rudolph, Soft Skull, 286 pages, $15.95

Chicago tattoo artist Stefy is trying to provide for her ailing grandfather and sister, Amanda, a woman with a drug-addicted past and an abusive relationship with Georgie. When Georgie violently confronts Amanda one night, he ends up dead, and now the sisters are in the crosshairs of Georgie’s vengeful father, a corrupt ex-cop bent on revenge.

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It’s said the bedroom is where the magic happens.

It’s a refuge that is at once inti-mate yet isolated… A place of other-ness… A heterotopia. Door closed, away from judgment, daydreaming, self-reflection and imagination are free to flourish, blurring the borders between headspace and meatspace.

William Alexander—who formerly went by the stage name The Meanest Boys—has proven that the bedroom is not just a place for baby-making,

but also music making. It is the point of transmission

for Alexander’s forthcoming album “Strangest Things.”

In an interview with Bandcamp Alexander said: “There is a childlike beauty to recording in my bedroom. It’s my corner of the world, and I can carve out whatever I want with no in-timidation. The process is so intimate; it’s just me. Real studios terrify me.”

The lo-fi aesthetic is apparent from the opening track “Lost In the Fire,” a hazy nostalgic tune peppered with guitar staccatos that sound just off-pitch, as if you were playing an old record.

The title track “Strangest Things” is punctuated throughout by percussive chop guitar chords. Its breezy and cheery demeanor is hoisted up by a beefy head bob-inducing bass line.

“Come Find Me” peddles along on a slack and slow trip-hop beat while Alexander’s ghosting melody hovers somewhere above the track. Pretty minimalistic, the psychedelic fili-grees, piano loops and synth-y strings are reminiscent of a stripped down Tame Impala.

Indeed, a through line can be drawn between Alexander’s vocal phrasing and that of Tame Impala’s

Kevin Parker. At other moments there are tinges of the Beach Boy’s Brian Wilson.

Alexander, who hails from Long Beach, has cited influences as dis-parate as Motown and N.W.A., all of which can be heard in the catchy baselines and heavy-duty hip-hop drum loops that inhabit his sound-scape.

The album’s most ho-hum track is “Inside Shakes.” Mostly flat line, it never seems to leave the gate and when it ends you don’t linger on it’s meaning and instantly enter the world of “Big Mistakes” which sounds like a combo of The Black Keys and The Black Angels; its big rhythm drums meets woozy psyche-delia.

For such an expansive feeling and atmospheric album, the tracks are relatively short, with only one break-ing past the 4-minute mark.

Alexander’s lyrics tend to be on the cryptic side, leaving interpre-tation up to the moods conjured by the swirls of reverb and looping sounds that make up the album. It’s this quality that makes “Strangest Things” feel personal even though we are listening to the artist’s private bedroom orchestrations.

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Dr. George A. Kuck (galbertk@aol.com)

If you have a limited amount of time and a debate moderator keeps you from presenting your viewpoint, is that censorship? Is the mainstream media made up of partisan liberals? One of the best lines out of the Republican Debate last week was Senator Rubio’s comment “You know, the Democrats have the ultimate Super PAC, it’s called the mainstream media.” The proof of this statement was the debate. The best summary of the “debate” was in a letter sent by the head of the Republican National Committee to the head of CNBC.

“CNBC billed the debate as one that would focus on “the key issues that matter to all vot-ers—job growth, taxes, technology, retirement and the health of our national economy.” That was not the case. Before the debate, the candidates were promised an opening question on economic or financial matters. That was not the case. Candidates were promised that speaking time would be carefully monitored to ensure fairness. That was not the case. Questions were inaccurate or downright offensive. The first question directed to one of our candidates asked if he was running a comic book version of a presidential campaign, hardly in the spirit of how the debate was billed.

While debates are meant to include tough questions and contrast candidates’ visions and pol-icies for the future of America, CNBC’s moderators engaged in a series of “gotcha” questions, petty and mean-spirited in tone, and designed to embarrass our candidates. What took place Wednesday night was not an attempt to give the American people a greater understanding of our candidates’ policies and ideas.”

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ifornia represents the 150,000 indig-enous peoples who lived in the state after the missions program, a fraction of the initial population of 300,000. The Gold Rush delineates the second California.

“The Gold Rush era, is a thing we [at CSULB] take so much pride in—

‘I’m a prospector! I’m a 49er!’ type of thing. Half, if not more than half, of that 150,000 were massacred during the Gold Rush. They disappeared,” Aguilera said.

Aguilera is Tongva. She is a legacy within the American Indian Student Council. Aguilera was introduced to the CSULB campus at a young age, growing up on the same land that her people walked to from the San Gabri-el Mission.

Despite growing up on the very same land her ancestors lived on,

Aguilera has dealt with the erasure of her own culture on the CSULB cam-pus and feels that events like these are vital to this campus.

“It’s difficult at times, especially when you have history professors and fellow peers dismissing you without even hearing your story—without them even trying to comprehend your family’s history, your people’s history,” Aguilera said.

American Indian Student Coun-cil President Adelita Arredondo said that “genocide awareness” week was

inspired by an event that transpired at California State University, Sacra-mento in which a native student was kicked out of a class after arguing with her professor on whether or not the decimation of American Indians can be called a “genocide.”

Arredondo said that not much is typically done for Native American Heritage Month. However, the Amer-ican Indian community at CSULB felt that it was important to bring awareness of the community and his-torical genocide to campus.

“Locally, people aren’t aware of what happened in California to the in-digenous peoples—let alone the whole United States. We are still here, we’re still preserving our culture despite what we’ve faced,” Arredondo said.

Throughout this week, American Indian Student Council will contin-ue to table for “Genocide Awareness Week” in an attempt to educate the campus community on not only the history of CSULB, but the history of California and the indigenous people who live here.

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Several detainees went on a hunger strike Monday for quality dental care, warm meals and better treatment of family visitors at the Adelanto Correc-tional Facility in Adelanto, California, according to ThinkProgress. The detention center, about 60 miles northeast of Los Angeles, is privately owned by The GEO Group and con-tracted with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for about a $13 million profit per year. The GEO Group has a history of inadequate care and of violating human rights, despite a policy that claims otherwise. “We are detainees and not prisoners,” the strikers said in their list of griev-ances obtained by ThinkProgress. The 20 imprisoned men are immi-grants from various countries, mostly

in Central America who were caught living in the United States without legal documentation and now face deportation. They said the demands are based on their “rights as humans under the law.” According to their hand-written manifesto, dentists were opting to pull teeth out rather than perform root canals, fillings and other procedures, and the detainees received cold slices of turkey instead of full meals. The detainees also complained that they do not have access to proper med-ical care and are subject to unsanitary kitchen conditions, disrespectful staff and one-sided or ineffective grievance procedures. With over 11 million undocumented immigrants in the Unites States, im-

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Crikey! In the land down under, there are all kinds of amazing speci-men: the box jellyfish, the Sydney fun-nel web spider—the most dangerous spider in the world—and Long Beach

State water polo star Keegan Wicken.The Australia transplant has

already made waves in the pool for the 49ers, leading the team in goals with 33 on the season for a 1.65 goals per game average. Wicken’s match high for goals came in an overtime show-down against UC Berkley as he totaled seven in the loss.

The defender sat down with the Daily 49er to discuss his roots in water polo and his fear of the Australian wildlife.

How did you get started playing water polo?

My mom played water polo as a kid and there was a local competition in Australia that I went down to play at eight, and that’s how I got started. I was kind of playing rugby and water polo, and I liked [water polo] better so

I pursued it more. What made you want to come to

America to play on a college team?In Australia, it’s like you go from

high school to opens, so there’s no real transition period, so I thought it’d be a good four years to transfer myself from juniors to seniors. We have a national comp in Australia, so it’s like whatever age, and it’s kind of hard to be a junior. I was on a team where I was playing five-six games a year instead of the 22 they typically play [here], so I wasn’t really getting much out of it, so I thought I’d come over here and get taught by [Head Coach] Gavin [Arroyo] who is a two-time Olympian and go back [to Austra-lia] when I’m 22-23; when I’m more experienced.

What sold you on playing for LBSU?

I heard it was a good program from other people who have come here from Australia and the coaching. That family mentality that we have is kind of what sold me.

How has your experience here been so far?

It’s been good, it’s been kind of surprising how much I’ve been getting to play, and how much I’ve learned al-ready in the short time I’ve been here.

Do you have a fond memory of being with this team so far?

I have one that I’m not fond of which was hell week, which is the first week of training where we practice six hours a day with weight belts and stuff. It’s in the pool and lifting in the gym before that. I like hanging out on Tuesday nights because we get Wednesday mornings off. We kind of just hang out at the house and play

FIFA because we can sleep in, so that’s pretty cool.

Are you afraid of any indigenous wildlife in Australia?

I’m definitely scared of spiders because we have the 10 deadliest spiders in Australia. They kind of creep me out. We have big ones that don’t hurt you, it’s just kind of freaky how big they are, but I’ve never been bitten. I lived in the city and it’s more out in the country, the outback where they are.

What do you see for your future in water polo?

Personally I want to go to the 2020 Olympics for Australia, and then as a group we want to go to the NCAA’s at least in the next two years, if not the next three years in a row. I want to contribute to the team; I’ve come here to improve myself and my team play.

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8 SportSMEN’S WATER POLO

Australia native and water polo star Keegan Wicken opens up about his week in hell and his greatest fear from the land down under.

By Kayce ContatoreAssistant Sports Editor

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Defender Keegan Wicken reaches to steal the ball from UCSD’s Andy Moore (21) in LBSU’s 10-4 win on Oct. 15.

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SPORTS PREVIEW

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Freshman outside hitter Carly Beddingfield hits a ball over the net in LBSU’s win over Cal Poly on Saturday.

Women’s Volleyball

Who: Fullerton (0-21, 0-9)When: Tonight at 7 p.m.Where: Titan Gym, Fullerton

Need to know: Cal State Fullerton is suffering through 24 straight loss-es, going back to last season. UC Irvine hit the Titans with the most recent one with a score of 3-1, though Fullerton’s outside hitter Kyra Smith set a new career best with 14 kills.

It’s been three years since LBSU failed to get win against CSUF; then the Titans breezed past the 49ers with a 3-1 win on Oct. 13, 2012. Prior to the lone loss in 2012, the 49ers hailed victorious with 59 wins in a row against the Titans, running from 1982-2012. LBSU holds an all-time record of 86-5 against Fullerton.

A duo consisting of sophomore outside hitter Kyra Hill and freshman middle blocker Summer Kerins leads CSUF with 2.52 and 2.03 kills per set, respectively. Junior outside hitter Paige Reed leads with 3.92 digs per set for a total of 294 on the season.