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Parting ways after 30 years Controversial “anti-Semitic” psychology professor Kevin MacDonald’s final semester of courses is being reduced.

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CSULB professor pens new novel Suzanne Greengberg’s “Lesson Plans” will be available on May 13.

By Kaila CampBell Staff Writer

When English professor and author Suzanne Greenberg begins writing, she usually doesn’t know where her work will take her.

Unlike some writers, Greenberg takes small glimpses of characters and small moments in scenes to create her stories, which is how she was able to write her new book, “Lesson Plans.”

“Lesson Plans” was called “witty and insightful” in a Reader’s Digest article titled “7 Great Books from Small Presses that are Worth Your Time.” It was also named as the Library Journal Editor’s Spring Pick.

The novel, which will be available on

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committee would see my past,” MacDonald said. “I don’t think I had a lot of choices besides being in a hostile work environment.”

Other anti-Semitic publications and white supremacist groups, however, publicly embrace and collaborate with MacDonald.

Despite support from these groups, he said he categorizes his work as evolutionary perspectives on culture, developmental psychology and personality theory in relation to the Jewish population.

CSULB faculty discussed MacDonald’s questionable anti-Semitic material in an open forum in 2008, where the Alpert Jewish Community Center requested to dissociate the university from his material.

In response to the forum, former CSULB President F. King Alexander said in an April 2008 email, “Universitimes when it is against popular opinion, to freedom of thought.”

In 2009, following the controversy, MacDonald signed the FERP contract.

“The negative atmosphere weighed on me,” MacDonald said.

MacDonald controversy calms Although the negative press has died down since 2010, MacDonald is facing new challenges from the university during the last leg of his retirement.

In Fall 2013, MacDonald was accused of discrimination in his classroom through an anonymous student complaint.

“They gave me a written complaint version,” MacDonald said. “It was all verbal; basically the student went to my academic website and was horricourse.”

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children.

Greenberg, a mother of three who does not home school her children, wrote the novel with no intent to make an argument for or against homeschooling.

“As a writer, I am drawn to the gray areas of life,” she said.

Greenberg said she loves the idea of subcultures and groups of people who are passionate about something that others don’t register with.

“Many people care intensively about their children and education, but homeschoolers take things a step further,” Greenberg said.

“Lesson Plans” is set throughout Southern California, including places such as Belmont Heights, Los Altos, Sunset Beach and Laguna Beach.

“Being a parent gave me all the right settings for the book, whether that meant playgrounds, ice skating rinks, parks, zoos or aquariums,” she said.

Greenberg also writes short stories “Speed-Walk and Other Stories” is a collection of Greenberg’s stories that won the Drue Heinz Prize in 2003, which came with a $15,000 cash prize.

“Speed-Walk and Other Stories” became available in paperback in 2013.

Greenberg said that writing a novel is vastly different from her short stories because the plot lines in short stories have to move more quickly.

“In novels, the discipline involves going back to the same characters and story over and over again, taking that leap of faith each day that you are not completely wasting your time,” Greenberg said.

When Greenberg was writing “Speed Walk and Other Stories,” she carefully pieced the stories so that one would lead into the other. She said the writing process in “Lesson Plans,” was similar to setting up scenes in the book.

Greenberg said it’s not easy to get published and warned future writers to prepare for rejection.

“There are so many factors including serendipity,” Greenberg said. “You need to keep writing, and when it comes to publishing, to persevere.”

Greenberg will be signing copies of “Lesson Plans” at Apostrophe Books on Second Street on Sunday May 18, from 1 to 3 p.m.

original agreement MacDonald made with the psychology department and the CLA went under re-evaluation, he said.

“I don’t know what’s going on,” MacDonald said. “I’ve talked to my attorney on what to do about this situation where they don’t want me to teach.”

CLA Dean David Wallace could not be reached for comment, and he directed the questions to Carbaugh.

“It was a managerial decision, and that’s the extent of it,” Carbaugh said.

“Sometimes when managers assign workload, the [faculty] is pleased and sometimes they’re not.”

MacDonald said the reasoning behind

the decision still seems unclear.

“They [say] it’s about ‘loose ends’ and ‘a common practice,’” MacDonald said. “Why wouldn’t they tell me that? I have not accepted the one-course offer.

I told Whitney I would get back to him about it.”

To MacDonald’s knowledge, there is no deadline to accept the offer, and he is considering a number of options.

MacDonald said he will leave CSULB with mixed feelings: relieved to enjoy his golden years outside of what he considers a hostile environment and excited to dedicate more time toward his research.

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Will your health care advance directive be there when it’s needed? ican Bar Association has preached the need for every adult to have a health care advance direcyou to make your health care preferences clear and legally binding. adults who do not have an advance directive. faced by those who have completed a directive: ensuring the directive gets to the right place when it is needed. sicians involved in our care — practically one for every organ of our body — and we may pass through multiple treatment settings during an ill-

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The app also stores and can send other key inance information.

The app functions as a personal advance directive registry. Registries have been around for vate organizations. But registries normally store documents on a central server and make them available to medical providers on request through tries has attracted a critical mass of participants.

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H ealtH a pp Continued from Page 4 advance directive. Not only did Sandra’s father create an advance directive and name Sandra as his health care agent, Sandra has her father’s advance directive on her smartphone’s My Healthcare Wishes app. She can immediately email the information to the hospital, along with other vital information stored on the app pertaining to her father’s medical condition, physicians and specialists, and health insurance. If Sandra’s father had been mentally capable when he entered the hospital, he too could have provided his advance directive to the hospital through his own smartphone by email or Bluetooth connection.

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‘Mind the Gap’

Catholic Newman Club’s intentions meant to inform the public

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On March 25 and 26, we, the Catholic Newman Club, hosted the Genocide Awareness Project or G.A.P. Our purpose was to start a conversation with students about human life and how abortion treats it. We had a lot of great conversations, and we want to share some of our comments.

Many students questioned our use of gruesome images of aborted babies. We agree that they are offensive images, but only because they show the offensive reality of abortion. The images are showing what abortion really is.

Martin Luther King Jr. said, “People will not reject racism until they see racism.” We hold the same ideas about abortion. Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece has also been quoted saying, “People will not reject abortion until they see abortion.”

We were also questioned about the comparisons we drew between abortion, genocide and slavery. At the root of all genocide is the denial of the humanity of a group of people. In Nazi Germany, Jewish people were portrayed as sub-human. The language used to refer to them was also changed.

They were never called people, but

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CSULB’s Catholic Newman Club hosted the G.A.P on campus some other term.

This allowed discrimination against them to be enshrined in law. In a similar way, many people use terms like “fetus” or “clump of cells” in order to deny the value and status of the preborn. The same principle is also evident when looking at slavery and Jim Crow laws in the U.S. By denying the humanity of human beings, it became OK to abuse and kill people based on

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color. In a similar way, it is now legal to kill a group of human beings based on their age and level of development.

We view the prevalence of abortion as the saddest reality of our time. Since Roe vs. Wade, 56 million babies have been aborted just in the United States alone. Every day, Planned Parenthoods across the country provide the “service” of aborting roughly 3,600 babies.

Abortion is the taking of an innocent human life. At conception, a full and

unique set of human DNA is created.

This human being grows, taking in water and nutrients like any other person. At 3 weeks, a heartbeat can be heard. After 5 weeks, brain waves can be detected. This is a human life that is deserving of love and protection like any other person.

Building a culture of life does not stop at ending abortion. It requires supporting mothers throughout their pregnancy and afterwards.

We were proud to have a crisis pregnancy center, Birth Choice Health Clinic, tabling with us. They provide free health services to pregnant women right here in Long Beach.

We know many students do not agree with our position on abortion. We were happy to see a few of our fellow students advocating opposing ideas. CSU Long Beach is the marketplace of ideas, and civilized debate is a great source of information. However, we were disappointed their signs told students to ignore us or “Do not engage” with us.

If truth and reason were on their side, they would have welcomed discussion. However, they advocated ignorance. Issues of abortion, life and death are vitally important.

After careful consideration of all viewpoints, we can make informed decisions. We hope all students will research human development and abortion so they can arrive at a wellthought out position.

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freshman, and didn’t let anything stop him from progressing. That is, until he suffered a rare condition.

Ammerman developed thoracic outlet syndrome at the start of his junior year, forcing him to redshirt the remainder of the season. He explained that he had a vein in his right arm that was pinched off by the muscles in his neck and that it gave him his most challenging struggle to date, but later saw it as a valuable learning experience. ter it was all over, I realized it worked out for the best,” Ammerman explained. “I was able to sit and observe, learning what I probably wouldn’t have if I didn’t sit out as much as I did.”

Ammerman went on to snatch the tion Honorable Mention, American Volleyball Coaches Association National Player of the Week and MPSF Player of the Week awards the following season. To every 49er fan’s disappointment, though, Ammerman had another tough start to his senior year.

He suffered an ankle injury early on and sat out a few matches.

Ammerman’s resilience and character didn’t keep hopes down for long, as he hurried to return to the court. He now has the second-most kills on the team.

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sunny Southern California — where some of the nation’s best volleyball players are bred.

Born in Anchorage, Alaska and raised in Parker, Colo. since life after three months old, Ammerman picked up a hobby that most Coloradans didn’t pay much mind to: volleyball.

While the sport may not be common in Colorado, it isn’t much of a stretch that Ammerman took a liking to it. Both of his parents played collegiate volleyball, and so did his AllAmerican older brother, who reigned at UC Irvine. His older sister also played collegiately and was a fouryear letter winner at Texas A&M. During high school, Ammerman was a gold medal holder during his time on the USA Volleyball Youth National Team. His powerful arm and grasp of the game attracted the nation’s top schools including UCI, Penn State and Hawaii. Ammerman and his family expected that he would follow his big brother’s footsteps and continue at UCI, but even to his own surprise, he committed to LBSU. “I actually visited [LBSU] before going to Irvine, but I made up my mind after that visit ... I just knew I wanted to come here.” Ammerman said.

Five seniors combine to score seven of the 49ers’ nine goals.

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Amid the chaos of spring break in Santa Barbara, the Long Beach State women’s water polo team was looking to throw its own celebration at the Campus Pool on Sunday.

It was senior day at The Beach, and the 49ers looked to send off their veteran leaders in grand fashion.

The 49ers would not allow UC Santa Barbara to crash the party in their home victory for its second Big West win.

LBSU (18-9, 2-2) will play at No. 6 on Thursday.

Five seniors said their goodbyes to the hometown faithful. What a powerful closing statement they made.

Seniors Coriann Snyder, Chelsea Parks, and Hillary Veselik combined for seven goals to lead the 49ers. Kelly Ringel added seven saves in the contest.

“The seniors played great,” head coach Gavin Arroyo said. “It was good for them Irvine and [the conference tournament].”

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Ammerman has overcome several injuries to become a consistent offensive weapon for Long Beach State.

through so much adversity, and it has been such a pleasure to have been able to watch him succeed the way he has,” head coach Alan Knipe said. “Dalton [Ammerman] is a great player and an even greater person.”

Ammerman doesn’t give away much. One thing he did make clear, though, was his love for his ninemember nuclear family. Although he has great love for his parents, Ammerman said it wasn’t always easy being raised Catholic, but coming to LBSU allowed him to gain the independence

he always wanted.

“I was always told what to do and Ammerman said. “So it was nice to come out here to gain a new perspective on life and the independence I like.”

After life at LBSU, Ammerman said he hopes to play professionally overseas in either Italy, Germany or Croatia. As for life after volleyball, his eyes set on living in a big city like Long Beach.

The game was preceded by a cerprepared speech read out to the crowd.

Arroyo greeted each player with a hug at mid-pool.

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offensive performance. “I wanted to do it for them.”

Power-play goals from Parks and Veselik ensured that the Gauchos would not mount a comeback.

The 49ers rode a 4-for-8 performance on power plays to a comfortable victory.

LBSU appears to be locked in as the fourth seed in the Big West. The conference tournament will get underway on

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“I felt good. Knowing this was the senior game, I just wanted to do it for my family because they don’t get to see me play as much,” Snyder said of her strong

Snyder said the 49ers will remain focused on the task directly in front of them.

“We’ve had close matchups with UCI in the past,” she said. “For us seniors, it’s really kind of a personal game. I think we will come into that game with as much intensity, if not more than today.”

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Head coach Gavin Arroyo hugs his seniors on Senior Day.