When hate hits your campus — and it will — will you stand up? If it targets a group you're not part of, will you take action? Whether it affects you directly, indirectly or not at all, will you do something?

Or will you think it's someone else's problem, someone else's responsibility?

If you don't rise up, hate remains.

None of the nation's 4,000-plus colleges and universities — or its 15 million college students — is immune to a hate crime or bias incident. Whether you know it or not, such an incident likely will happen or has happened on your campus.

Trends are hard to identify because reporting is so shoddy, but these crimes and incidents happen with disturbing regularity. Why do they happen? Sometimes it's first-time freedom for students — or first-time exposure to diverse communities. Alcohol doesn't help, nor do exclusionary groups such as fraternities.

Hate happens on campus, and it happens more than you might realize.

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