When learning to write an argumentative essay, students are introduced to the dreaded counterargument. Students are told they must state an argument they don’t believe in so that they can refute it in their next paragraph.

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When I look at them, they are distant. All of my flaws, they lack. They somehow know everything about a campus that still feels so foreign to me.

This post was updated April 12 at 8:11 p.m.
I arrived at UCLA to embrace my future. But my professor sent me into the past.
My fall quarter English professor required we source physical copies of the novels we read in class.

“This is not the America I knew.”
These were the words my mother said as we discussed the fatal shooting of Renee Good by a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

This post was updated March 11 at 8:36 p.m.
These are scary and tenuous times for many of us at the University. We’ve witnessed the federal government’s attacks on higher education and seen funding be curtailed and held back not only for research, but also the programs that support the needs of our diverse student population.

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I am used to feeling like an audience member in my professors’ lectures.
Their passion for their research usually plays like a live YouTube video essay.

This post was updated April 16 at 8:14 p.m.
On Dec. 5, 1955, 90% of Black people in Montgomery, Alabama, decided not to take the bus.