On March 29th. I attended the Bucknell Diversity Summit workshop: Applying the Bystander Intervention Model to Social Change. The panel was able to introduce and relate the topic to the audience through Bucknell’s mandatory Speak UP program; the Speak Up program was a series of mandatory workshops educating the Bucknell community—specifically first-year students—on ways to prevent sexual misconduct as spread awareness for said issue. The Speak UP program urged students to follow the positive bystander model. The positive bystander, according to Bucknell, does the following: recognize an event as inappropriate or sexually violent, assume personal responsibility, determine how to help while maintaining personal safety, and ultimately speak
