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This Date in UCSF History

This Date in UCSF History: The Valentine’s Blues

[Originally published in Synapse on February 11, 1999.] Ever since New Year’s Day, it seems the world has been swathed in sickly shades of red and pink and filled with declarations of “I love you” and “Be mine.” A walk through Safeway or even the UCSF bookstores makes it painfully obvious that that...
February 10, 2026
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This Date in UCSF History: After the Recall, Things Will Get No Better

October 3, 2021
Synapse
The culmination of weeks of political farce comes on October 7, when California voters will vote on whether to recall...
Opinion
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An OpiNION on diversity

March 21, 2021
Janice Goh
The description of heaven as an onion, having multiple different layers to explore as a metaphor in the chronicles of...
Opinion
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This Date in UCSF History: Affirmative Action Under Attack (Again!)

February 21, 2021
Synapse
Do you think that all citizens should have equal access to jobs and education? If so, how does one measure...
Opinion

This Date in UCSF History: Political Ads: There Oughta Be a Law

November 1, 2020
Synapse
[Originally published on November 3, 1994.] Disgust is the overwhelming feeling that washes over me as I listen to the...
Opinion

Unlike The President, My Father Needs Hydroxychloroquine

June 1, 2020
Ali Zahir
Four months ago, my father began experiencing debilitating joint pain, which first appeared with a progressively sharp throbbing in his...
Opinion

COVID-19 Testing Stifled

May 19, 2020
Nnaoma Oji
A recent publication in Nature illustrates how innovative efforts to increase coronavirus testing across the US, such as those through...
Opinion
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Wet Market Crackdown

May 11, 2020
Victoria Turner
Wet markets have been in the headlines since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak. Many initial cases were traced back...
Opinion
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Increase Funding to Strategic National Stockpile

April 20, 2020
Nathan Coss
In the days since the arrival of COVID-19 to the United States we have seen the ineptitude of the federal...
Opinion

Vote Yes on Prop 13 For Safer Schools

February 9, 2020
Benjamin Adam Catching
Sharleen Gill
UCSF is home to some of the best healthcare programs in the nation. However, our globally revered school consistently fails...
Opinion
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