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This Date in UCSF History

This Date in UCSF History: Refugees Counsel Compatriots

[Originally published in Synapse on May 26, 1988.] Case: A 29 year-old Salvadoran woman, mother of three, is unable to speak about her experiences in El Salvador. She has been in San Francisco for three years and is currently eligible for temporary residency under amnesty laws.

May 27, 2025

Campus

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This Date in UCSF History: We Need Affirmative Action

November 8, 2022

Originally published on November 13, 1997. Last week the United States Supreme Court ruled that it would not hear a...

Pro-choice activists protest.

This Date in UCSF History: Anti-abortionists Threaten Family Planning Funds

November 1, 2022

[Originally published on November 7, 1985.] Local family planning agencies and prochoice groups are concerned about a move by congressional...

Voter buttons

This Date in UCSF History: Don’t Forget to Vote

October 24, 2022

[Originally published in Synapse on Oct. 30, 1986.] It may not be a presidential election year, but next Tuesday’s midterm...

Hand holds canister with radioactive sign.

This Date in UCSF History: Mystery Surrounds Radiation Exposure Readings

October 16, 2022

[Originally published on October 15, 1987.] Synapse has learned that sometime last July three UCSF radioactive waste disposal workers’ radiation...

Birth control products

This Date in UCSF History: Birth Control Aborted in United States

October 3, 2022

[ Originally published in Synapse on October 4, 1990.] Americans have fewer choices in practicing birth control than people in...

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This Date In UCSF History: Necessary Dialogue

September 24, 2022

[ Originally published in Synapse on September 29, 1993.] A campus forum on “Interracial Racism,” held Sept. 21 in Toland...

Marijuana plant

This Date in UCSF History: Professors Stir Drug Debate

September 17, 2022

[Originally published in Synapse on September 20, 1990.] A high-level state advisory panel, including four UCSF faculty members, ignited the...

Streets of New York post 9/11.

This Date in UCSF History: A Visit to Ground Zero

September 13, 2022

Originally published in Synapse on September 20, 2001. [Editor’s Note: Joshua Gordon is an alumnus of UCSF, who received his...

Graduation cap on top of piles of cash.

This Date in UCSF History: Cuts and Fee Increase

September 6, 2022

[Originally published in Synapse on September 9, 2004.] The University of California sustained its fourth budget cut in a row...