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Perhaps it is the volatile and divisive election season.

Perhaps it is the violence or threat of violence, at home and abroad.

Perhaps it is the alarming numbers of sexual assaults on college campuses.

Or perhaps it is the ever-heavier loads of college debt that students are asked to bear.

It is most likely all of these things and others that have inspired a new era of activism on college campuses across America. Campuses are a reflection of what is going on in our broader society. Here on the campus of a public university, students should find safe spaces to express concerns, show solidarity, and invest in change.

As you have probably witnessed, that resurgence of activism is alive on the Chico State campus. I took a great deal of pride in the actions of our campus and community when we stood arm-in-arm and hand-in-hand outside Kendall Hall in early October to add our voices to the national conversation and concern for African American lives lost due to violence in America.