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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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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

Students with their hands covered in green paint

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Seniors Katie Zambanini and Roger Salguero posed with the Nittany Lion after making their marks on the Stand for State banner at Penn State Berks' kickoff event Jan. 25.

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Kat Valero, left, a freshman from York; the Nittany Lion; and Eden Tesfay, a freshman from Lancaster; flexed their muscles during Penn State York's Stand for State launch on Jan. 28. 

Penn State Behrend Chancellor Ralph Ford and the lion mascot

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Penn State Behrend Chancellor Ralph Ford showed his support for the Stand for State campaign at the Jan. 27 launch.