According to traditions thousands of years old, the Moon Festival is the time for family reunions. Loved ones sit together under the perfect full moon enjoying moon cakes. The Chinese New Year, also ...

I first got involved with Synapse in 2012 and served as EIC 2014-15. Synapse meant a lot to me in a time when I both needed a creative outlet and was figuring out what to do with my future outside of ...

Yet, the Benito bowl was not defined but struggle alone. It also made room for life. The wedding scene captured a truth often ...

Shortly after our return to Ecuador, my father became a victim of the very violence we had initially escaped, and he passed ...

The ancient Romans celebrated Lupercalia, a fertility festival honoring the pastoral god Lupercus, on Feb. 15. As with several other pagan festivals, Lupercalia was subsumed by the Church and ...

Working for Synapse was a fantastic learning experience. I liked educating myself about all the different opportunities for education and advocacy occurring every single day on campus. I have so much ...

Woodson, an African American historian with a PhD from Harvard, initially dubbed it, “Negro History Week” and picked February in order to commemorate the birthdays of two men prolific in the black ...

Originally published in Synapse on Jan. 16, 1997. I suppose I should begin with a qualifying statement. I am not a professional film critic and I certainly haven’t seen all of the movies that came out ...

In this 2003 conversation, founder Don Swatman recounts how the paper began as a modest, typewritten project in the Dental School and slowly expanded into a campus-wide forum. Interviewed by Mark ...

Note: This article appears in Synapse’s 70th anniversary print edition, produced to mark seven decades of student journalism at UCSF and available in print at locations across campus. In my junior ...

Synapse arrived not as a rebel publication but as an act of institutional optimism. UCSF was already nearly a century old, yet still in the process of imagining itself as a coherent campus rather than ...