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Coming to Terms With Campbell, or a Case Against the Hero’s Journey
By Kaveh Nasseri When Joseph Campbell, writing in the late 1940s, coined the term “monomyth” to describe a particular kind of structure for a particular kind of story, particularities were the furthest thing from his mind; instead, the learned mythologist was on the hunt for universality, for archetypal themes with the potential to unite stories […]
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Copyright is Screwing Over Your Favorite Artists
By Leo Rector For many people, the topic of copyright holds a connotation of protecting artists. After all, artwork does fall under the category of intellectual property, and the blatant theft of someone else’s ideas for the sake of financial gain is the crime that copyright law was originally intended to punish. However, media companies […]
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What Your Doctor Won’t Tell You About Birth Control
By Kimya Afshar Doctors are nothing more than the fancy white jackets they sport and stethoscopes they hang around their necks; these social niceties are symbolic of their function as tools of tradition, carrying along a historical legacy of know-all and apolitical, altruistic practice. This social construction is the intention, at least. Even with all […]
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Gene Block Gives Up Chancellorship to Pursue Childhood Dream of Being a Magician
By Polly Wenlock The world’s greatest act of illusion is commonly misconceived to be Harry Houdini’s daring midair straightjacket escape. In reality, UCLA’s course creators pull off a bigger stunt every quarter in their representation of General Ed classes as being easy and fun. Just as this article is misleadingly clickbaited, GE’s are appealing in […]
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UCLA vs USC: A Rivalry Against Communities of Color
By Leah John Although my suburban high school crushed it in the science bowl, sports were never our strong suit. Our high school football games were so abysmal that I never once stayed through the whole match. After all, it’s hard to stay for the second half when the score indicates that the game is […]
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The QAnon Fandom
By Jason Lim I like Star Wars as much as the next guy, but it’s time to face the hard truth that the Star Wars fandom is undermining our democracy. There isn’t anything overtly antidemocratic about George Lucas’s classic space opera, but the online organization of superfans exhibits patterns shared with more sinister communities. Internet […]
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UCLA Has An Eating Disorder
By Julianne Lempert I want to tell a story about a quesadilla. What I consumed this one day at Bruin Plate was, in retrospect, not shocking coming from this designated “healthy” dining hall. B Plate purposefully “edits” normal dishes. They take a food and reduce it to the lowest calorie state it can possibly inhabit […]
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Fame, Fortune, and Fragile Egos
By Angel Perez Since influencer culture first gained traction on social media, critics have taken issue with the unpleasant byproducts of its unrealistic standards, shameless attention grabs, and questionable messaging regarding our consumerist society. As the ability to disseminate information using social media has become increasingly valued, media consumption has fueled a separation between public […]
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Holy Be Our Progressive Sensitivity
Alexia Pelletier The 21st century has notably brought many reforms and changes, particularly politically and socially. One change has been the push by progressives for adherence to political correctness. More and more things in daily life are being deemed “offensive” or “politically incorrect.” The push for virtually everyone to adhere to this set of expectations […]
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Struggles of Being In-Person
By Dhruv Krishan Last Fall, everyone was forced out of their underwear and back into pants. In an interview conducted by Foxy News’ respected journalist, Clicks-are-lyf, College Dean Pretentious Asshattold the world how happy he was to stuff two batches of freshmen alongside antisocial juniors and seniors back into old college dorms. Then, after we […]
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