This Date in UCSF History: Laugh. It’s Good For You

[Originally published in Synapse on December 2001.] It’s been one of those days. You lock yourself out of your car. You get into an argument with a loved one. And your neighbor’s dog mistakes your leg for a fire hydrant. What should you do?

December 9, 2025

Synapse

Campus

Medicine

This Date in UCSF History: Examining Race’s Impact on Medicine

October 10, 2021

Synapse

[Originally published in Synapse on October 19, 2006.] What does the term “race” mean? Is it a social construct or...

Social Justice

This Date in UCSF History: Prof Claims Rape Stats Inflated, Gets Pushback

October 9, 2021

Synapse

[Originally published in Synapse on October 10, 1991.] UC Berkeley Professor Neil Gilbert’s article, “The Phantom Epidemic of Sexual Assault,”...

Social Justice

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

This Date in UCSF History: Prepayment for Healthcare

September 26, 2021

Synapse

Originally published on September 27, 1973. In February, within weeks of the announcement of severe federal cutbacks in grant monies...

Health

[This Date in UCSF History] Socialized Medicine is Respectable in Norway, the UK

September 19, 2021

Synapse

Originally published on September 22, 1994. This author, a graduate student who works for the Department of Otolaryngology in the...

Social Justice

This Date in UCSF History: Minority Enrollees Climb Dramatically

September 11, 2021

Synapse

Originally published on September 14, 1986. In a dramatic reversal of last year’s disappointing showing, the School of Medicine enrolled...

Academic

This Date in UCSF History: Campus Group Organizes for Civil Rights Protection

May 27, 2021

Synapse

[Originally published on May 27, 1966.] The Committee for Independent Political Action, a recognized on-campus political organization, has announced plans...

Social Justice