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A balloon with the message "What would happen if we created this many green dots at Penn State?"

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Penn State’s Stand for State uses a bystander intervention program by Green Dot that encourages people to erase dangerous situations (red dots) by standing up for friends as well as strangers (green dots). 

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Barry Bram, special assistant to the vice president for Student Affairs, spoke with senior Katie Gnatt in the Balloon Room at University Park's Stand for State launch event in the HUB-Robeson Center. 

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Barry Bram, special assistant to the vice president for Student Affairs, spoke with senior Katie Gnatt in the Balloon Room at University Park's Stand for State launch event in the HUB-Robeson Center. 

Students writing down messages on green CDs

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Students wrote ways that they could step in to help others in risky situations at the launch of Stand for State on Jan. 27 in the HUB-Robeson Center, University Park. 

Students writing down messages on green CDs

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Students wrote ways that they could step in to help others in risky situations at the launch of Stand for State on Jan. 27 in the HUB-Robeson Center, University Park. 

A student painting a green dot on another student's hand

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Student Madison Hileman painted a green dot on the hand of another student at Penn State Altoona's Stand for State launch Jan. 27.  

Students and staff talking in the Balloon Room

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The Balloon Room created a space for students and staff to discuss bystander intervention Jan. 27 at University Park's Stand for State kickoff. 

Students and staff talking in the Balloon Room

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The Balloon Room created a space for students and staff to discuss bystander intervention Jan. 27 at University Park's Stand for State kickoff. 

A student prepares to leave a green handprint on a poster

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Susan Dale, staff assistant for Academic Affairs at Penn State New Kensington, helped a student apply a green handprint in support of Stand for State at the Jan. 27 launch, part of the Volunteer and Human Rights Fair during the campus' Martin Luther King Unity Week.