Many of my Saturday Mornings at DePauw look pretty similar. I wake up late, I get food, I tell myself I'm going to do homework, work out, or do something productive, then I watch shows on Netflix for most of the day and do preliminary work on a few easier assignments. This past Saturday I did something different.

I still woke up late, but I spent 11-4:30ish getting Green Dot trained. Most of our campus should know about the Green Dot program, but for those who don't I will give a quick description. If you think of our campus as a map, each harmful act (usually of dating violence or sexual assault) will show up as a red dot. Every time a bystander is proactive or reactive in order to stop a harmful act from happening, or is working to change our culture to not have these offenses be acceptable by our society.

To be honest, I am not completely sure why I got trained. I obviously knew that these offenses were wrong, but I, like most college students, wasn't a huge advocate for these issues. I thought I should sign up anyways and see what it's all about because I had friends involved with the program and thought I should give my support especially since I wouldn't be doing anything important.

The five hours I spent getting trained went by much more quickly than I anticipated. With interesting activities and topics, I came to realize that the work that we were doing was important. I was able to hear from people who have been affected by these injustices, and realizing how big of a problem all of this really was.

My point behind writing this isn't to get all of you to spend a few hours of your Saturday to get Green Dot trained (but feel free to do so if that sounds good to you), but my point is to have everyone understand the magnitude of what we're stricken with not only on our campus, but on campuses across the nation. If you haven't seen CollegeHumor's visualization of this problem take a look below.

The point that I'm trying to get across is that doing nothing is an active choice. If you choose to ignore this problem then that makes you apart of the problem. Even small movements in the right direction will go a long way if everyone is working for the same goal.

I leave you with this: You don't have to be a superhero. Don't try to do everything yourself, but just do something. Not someone has to do everything, but everyone has to do something.