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This Date in UCSF History: We Need Affirmative Action
Originally published on November 13, 1997. Last week the United States Supreme Court ruled that it would not hear a...
This Date in UCSF History: Anti-abortionists Threaten Family Planning Funds
[Originally published on November 7, 1985.] Local family planning agencies and prochoice groups are concerned about a move by congressional...
This Date in UCSF History: Don’t Forget to Vote
[Originally published in Synapse on Oct. 30, 1986.] It may not be a presidential election year, but next Tuesday’s midterm...
This Date in UCSF History: Mystery Surrounds Radiation Exposure Readings
[Originally published on October 15, 1987.] Synapse has learned that sometime last July three UCSF radioactive waste disposal workers’ radiation...
This Date in UCSF History: Fighting for Choice
[This story was originally published in Synapse on Oct. 8, 1981.] A group of speakers at a Civic Center march...
This Date in UCSF History: Birth Control Aborted in United States
[Originally published in Synapse on October 4, 1990.] Americans have fewer choices in practicing birth control than people in many...
This Date In UCSF History: Necessary Dialogue
[Originally published in Synapse on September 29, 1993.] A campus forum on “Interracial Racism,” held Sept. 21 in Toland Hall...
This Date in UCSF History: Professors Stir Drug Debate
[Originally published in Synapse on September 20, 1990.] A high-level state advisory panel, including four UCSF faculty members, ignited the...
This Date in UCSF History: A Visit to Ground Zero
Originally published in Synapse on September 20, 2001. [Editor’s Note: Joshua Gordon is an alumnus of UCSF, who received his...