[ Originally published in Synapse on February 22, 1996.] Chinese New Year is a misnomer. The arrival of the same...

[In this series, past editors reflect on their time leading the paper.] As I looked through my old articles, a...

[Originally published in Synapse on February 11, 1999.] Ever since New Year’s Day, it seems the world has been swathed...

It was late on a ‘full moon’ night in the emergency department — a phrase the ER staff used to...

[Originally published in Synapse on February 5, 2009.] Last month we honored the birth of civil rights leader Dr. Martin...

[In this series, past editors-in-chief reflect on their time leading the paper.] I served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008-2009. I have...

I served as editor-in-chief of Synapse in 2002–2003. Before that, I was the food editor, which conveniently meant Synapse reimbursed...

[Originally published in Synapse on January 29, 2009.] President Barack Obama moved last week to reverse a U.S. policy restricting...

[In this series, past editors-in-chief reflect on their time leading the paper.] I was a member of the the Synapse...

[Originally published in Synapse on Jan. 16, 1997.] I suppose I should begin with a qualifying statement. I am not...

[Note: This article appears in Synapse’s 70th anniversary print edition, produced to mark seven decades of student journalism at UCSF...

In this 2003 conversation, founder Don Swatman recounts how the paper began as a modest, typewritten project in the Dental...

1956-57 Synapse arrived not as a rebel publication but as an act of institutional optimism.

[This piece launches a new series in which former Synapse editors-in-chief look back on experiences, priorities and decisions that shaped...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] It’s been seven something months since you finished your first...