The event will launch a hate-free campaign and is one of several initiatives to address issues of campus climate following this year's incidents of violence and bias, incivility and tensions over the contested student election. We within UCD make up different interests, perspectives and communities. It is my challenge. It is your challenge. It is OUR Challenge.
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The event also will celebrate the campus's Principles of Community, an expectation of behavior adopted in 1990 and signed by representatives of faculty, staff and students. Those who attend will be invited to sign a personal pledge to follow the principles, and a pledge for student organizations also is being drafted. Students also will have an opportunity to sign up to help with other events related to the hate-free campaign and to learn about campus and city of Davis resources that foster community or respond to related problems. Speakers at the event will share why community is important to them and what they will do to strengthen the campus community. They will include the chancellor and representatives of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and the city of Davis.