Gun Violence Content

Campus Pauses to Remember Victims

Cody Kitaura — February 07, 2023 - 3:34pm

Updated 10 a.m. Feb. 7 to add information on the lantern ceremony scheduled from 5 to 6 p.m. Feb. 7.

Original story posted Feb. 2: Dozens of people gathered Wednesday (Feb. 1) on the Memorial Union’s South Patio for a Campuswide Moment of Reflection and a minute of silence for recent victims of violence around the nation. Sadness and tears marked the occasion — but there was anger, too.

A Moment of Reflection

Dave Jones — January 31, 2023 - 8:34pm

A Campuswide Moment of Reflection will begin at noon Wednesday (Feb. 1), on the Memorial Union’s South Patio, for the victims of gun violence and police violence across the nation this past month.

Campus Police, All of Yolo County Law Enforcement Speak Out

Dave Jones — January 28, 2023 - 4:19am

The 51�ԹϺ�� Davis Police Department and all of Yolo County law enforcement register disgust and distress over the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis, Tennessee, police.

51�ԹϺ�� Davis Chancellor Gary S. May and Police Chief Joe Farrow Statement on Killing of Tyre Nichols

Andy Fell — January 27, 2023 - 10:18am

Our minds are still coming to terms with how this could happen, again.

Gun Violence: 51�ԹϺ�� Davis Researches Causes, Trends, Solutions

Dave Jones — May 25, 2022 - 10:10am

Chancellor’s Statement on Gun Violence

Dave Jones — August 04, 2019 - 1:03pm

Chancellor Gary S. May issued the following statement today (Aug. 4):

We wish to express our deepest sympathies to the victims of the shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, this weekend.

The instances of gun violence over the last week — including close to home in Gilroy last weekend — have left the nation stunned and horrified once more. Gun violence has been a public health hazard for far too long, and we cannot become numb or complacent to it.

BOOK PROJECT: ‘Another Day’ of Gun Violence

Dave Jones — April 08, 2019 - 4:50pm

With its 2019-20 selection, the Campus Community Book Project is inviting everyone to delve into the issue of gun violence in the United States, in part by reading the stories of every child and teenager who died in a single day in 2013 — a total of 10.