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 ...

Seventy years on, the paper’s through-line is not a single political position, but a commitment to voice: to documenting how students experience power, responsibility, and care in real time. In that ...

In 1956, Don Swatman from the School of Dentistry founded Synapse as a student newspaper. What began as a small operation mostly specific to the dental school quickly grew. With the added support of ...