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"I Am Not a Bystander" is a campus wide effort to empower students to stand up, speak out, and act for the wellness of their peers. Too often, Stanford students are bystanders: unaware, unsure, or unconcerned about how to help others in difficult situations. This culture of inaction hurts individuals who suffer from unmitigated illness, intolerance, and abuse. By weakening our collective responsibility to each other, bystanding hurts our community. The campaign challenges students to grapple with all points of safe intervention, focusing on a range of relevant wellness issues including: sexual assault, intolerance, eating disorders, depression, relationship abuse, stress, and alcohol abuse. It will encourage prevention of and amelioration of deleterious incidents. It will target attitudes, stereotypes, and misconceptions that lead to harm. The main component of the campaign is a website, bystander.stanford.edu, which illustrates harmful situations and helpful actions. On the website, students can take a meaningful step towards active awareness by pledging not to be a bystander. Information about valuable resources and upcoming campaign events will help students implement the participatory message of the campaign in their daily lives. Through the collaboration of student activists and the support of administrators and campus resources, our campaign will launch further policies to build a stronger, healthier community.
This campaign is brought to you by the following collaborators:
Campaign Directors Lila Kalaf- ASSU Executive Health Co-Chair, Sexual Health and Nutrition
Technical Develoment: Tariq West - ASSU Executive Web Initiatives Chair David Gobaud - ASSU Executive Technical Advisor
For more information about how to get involved in the I Am Not aBystander campaign or in other campus health initiatives. Please email Lila Kalaf at
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